Home & on the mend!

Thursday AM we got the call Rick could leave the hospital so I got there when they said at 8:30 only to wait a 1/2 hour for the security guard to bring up his wallet.  Then 10 min waiting for nurse to be told he needs some prescriptions filled and it would be at least an 1 1/2 hours … UGH.  Then they had a few that they didn’t have in the hospital so I had to make a quick run to Walmart to fill Rick’s 2 prescriptions that cost $85!!!!  Yes I almost fell over at that cost, I was blessed with a bonus check from my boss a few weeks back and something told me to save it not to go out and make a big purchase so I have a little cushion to help with the missed days and cost of all these meds Rick has needed.

It’s been one heck of a week, and I’m exhausted I haven’t slept well since Sunday and I’ve been bouncing between the hospital, home and running the boys to their events we had scheduled.  Thankfully we’ve had some sunny days so the boys could play outside with the neighbors. I think I’ll have to bake up something fun for my neighbor. 

So I sit here in a dirty house, laundry that is piling up once more along with the dishes.  Poor Rick is in bed going crazy wishing he could be up and about but HAPPY to be out of a hospital bed.  I’m hoping this weekend will give me sometime to get the house back in order and maybe if I’m lucky put my feet up!

Thank you again for all the love, support and prayers they mean so much to me!  Much love and I hope to be back up and running and commenting soon.  Sorry I haven’t been around, right now I feel like I entered the crazy half room in the original Charlie and the Chocolate factory.  The only sad thing is I don’t have Gene Wilder to make me laugh and carry me away in a balloon threw a glass ceiling!

Not just a simple Tooth Ache … Happy Anniversary

Thank you so much for all the prayers and wishes about Rick.  His surgery went well yesterday they ended up removing 4 teeth while they were in there.  His simple tooth ache has turned into a nightmare .  He ended up a oral surgery that has him now on a ventilator to help him breath.  His throat is so swollen that if they took him off it he would be able to breath comfortable.  He’s been put in a medical coma to help with the pain along with a drain in his neck to help.  I went to visit him last night in the ICU and they have wonderful nurses that only have 2 patients each that they take care of.  He will be in the ICU for another day or two and then in a regular room until probably Friday.

They are going to take him out of the coma state this afternoon so I will take the boys in to see him.  They woke him up the am and they wrote that he wanted to see his boys .  I’ll keep you posted on what happens.  Thank you again for all your support and kind words I so appreciate it.

Rick sleeping peacefully.

Many blessings to you all!  And today is our 8th Anniversary, happy Anniversary sweetie, love you!

The one where Rick goes to the ER :(

Now I wish I was talking about the show ER (which by the way the last season just came out on DVD – Yes I netflixed it).

So I usually post about a fun food recipe on Monday’s but I’m with a lack of sleep and a heavy heart right now.  Rick has had teeth problems since I met him, I’ve been on him to get it fixed but being a male he figured he could just let it go.  As we all know fear and time only lead to bad things!

So 4th of July weekend Rick had a toothache so I had to do some emergency calling and the doc he saw last time was kind enough to call in a antibiotic for him.  Then last Thursday he woke up throwing up and in severe pain.  So I called the doc to get him in again, but since we don’t have insurance for him they suggested we go to a doc that let’s you do a cash pay on a sliding scale.  So he went in came out with an x-ray of his cracked wisdom tooth, more antibiotics and pain pills.   So no work Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday.  When I came home Sunday from my friends house I found Rick on the couch and asked me to take him to the ER.  So I called my dad to come stay with the boys.  And God love my parents it always come with a bit of an advice and I told you so.  They just can’t help it.

ER we went at 8pm by 12:15pm they admitted Rick.  By the AM the oral surgeon saw him and the x-ray they took to say he needed to have oral surgery.  Monday @ 3pm he will be going under.  The thing that is worrisome beside him having surgery is his throat is still so swollen and he has lock jaw so he hasn’t ate or really drank anything since Thursday.  So they are concerned about his throat and anesthesia.  They think they may have to put a tube down his nose and worried he may have to go into the ICU afterwards.  YES I’m a little freaked out right now.  So they said he may leave on Wednesday or worse case scenario Friday.  So here we are no insurance for him a huge hospital bill to come and scary surgery.  Oh yes and we’re not sure if his boss will allow him to use his vacation time.

And I thought last week was rough!

Early Morning ER Visit

This time it was me and not the boys who needed to rushed to see a doctor. Oh please let this be the 3rd and finally in the it always happens in 3's. (Car, Boys shots/sick, Me chest pain). So this morning I work about around 1:30am feel really puny, so I got up and had a banana thinking something in my stomach would be helpful. Wrong move a 1/2 hour later I was having sever chest pains, thinking I'm too young for a heart attack but man it was getting worse by 2am I'm in tears thinking I'm dying and needing some pepto. Wake Rick up who mind you thinks I'm just being whinnie grumbles and gets up to run to the store 1/2 hour that felt like an hour he returns to find me in a ball. I take 2 huge gulps of pepto and within 10 minutes it's coming up with anything that may have been left in my system. By this time I think I'm in some serious trouble, now Rick knows I'm not being whinny and you can tell he's getting a little freaked. He calls my dad who thankfully has the day off to see if he can come here and watch the boys. We get in the car with my blankie and take the ride to Good Sam. My mom meets us there and we go thru the check in process reasonably quickly and get right into a room, oh geez I was so dreading a hospital waiting room. The nurse comes in hooks me up to a EKG machine and tech comes in to runs some test. I get taken back for X-Rays and come back for a blood draw. Of course I'm dehydrated and he can't find a veil. He tries my upper arm for no luck then tries my wrest. After fishing around for some time and a nasty bruise forming my goes back to my arm. A yummy cocktail with lidocaine and I'm feeling like the elephant that was on my chest has moved to a large cat. After being checked out it turns out to be acid reflex, dehydration and a nasty cold.

My parents once at my house were getting everyone ready for school and daycare. Rick took the boys and my parents got working on cleaning my house. God love them but my house will never be up to clean standards. Once I get relaxed the pain in my chest comes back fast and furious. I think I'm dying mom calls the nurse the whole time telling me just hang on, one of those moments you just want to smack someone. The nurse says let the medicine take effect it should be a few more minutes, 30 minutes later I'm feeling half way decent. I take a snooze on the couch while my parents vacuum and rearrange my house, one way to get the house cleaned but next time I rather not have the pain. It was a great day I just got to sleep on the couch in peace.

All was great until I get a call from my doctors office saying they got a call from Good Sam Hospital. The chest X-Ray's that the tech said was clear turns out the radiologist took a look and found a spot. Asking questions to the doctors office who hadn't seen the X-Ray was like talking to a wall, I found out nothing except the spot is an inch in size and she wants me to have CT scan right away. Better safe than sorry, what comforting words. I try to ask what it could be and she is very vag and says it could be a number of things, like an inflamed lymph node. So now I'm freaked out and have a CT scan scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. I'm just hoping it's nothing or if it is something that God was looking down on me and had me have these chest pains so we could find something right away.

I'll keep you posted, please keep me in your prayers. Sorry this time girls it's a serious post, I'm trying to find humor but for now it has escaped me.