A bit of stomach pain then a trip to the hospital and now a surgery and other fun summer stuff!

Howdy folks!

hope you had a pleasant 4th of july weekend. we went camping it was fun we got a new air matteress and the kids fished and we swam, and we ate some good food. we were pretty much close to a town that had hardly anything. We had our share of spiders, most were daddy long legs...but still theyre spiders, and when they are in the dome part of your tent where the door is and right over where you go in and out it gives you the heebies. we did find a few on the kids pillows or blankets. gross if you ask me.

we came home the morning of the 4th and unloaded the car and relaxed showered etc. and then ate and decided to take the kids to the drive in by the house, and we saw TRANSFORMERS 3 it was an epic epic movie. so so good. it was 20$ a car load for 2 movies but since the hubs had to go to work we only stayed for one. i mean it didnt start till close to 9 and got out after 1130.

a few days later all h e double hockey sticks broke loose....

wednesday nite we ordered pizza for dinner ..nothing unusual and the same almost order to the t. a little bit after eating probably about an hr the hubs stomach hurt and he was in the bathroom for about a half hour. then around 945pm i started getting a sharp pain across the top of my stomach and it was right under my ribs, i just figured it would hurt for a bit. i tried maalox and also laying on my tummy ( like )putting pressure on it would help. NO DICE. i also kept goin into the bathroom either thinking if i got rid of it somehow i would feel better, but nothing . ( gross i know and tmi) so i decided at 1045 i was going to bed but i layed down and couldnt lay on my tummy and couldnt lay on either side. it sucked so i started asking the hubs where the spleen appendix and gall bladder were and hes like not sure go look it up so i did. I couldnt figure it out, i ended up calling the after hrs clinic # and the nurse told me a few things to try and so i did. nothing helped. she then told me after the 3rd call to go to the er. i had to wake the hubs and tell him to go and he said i should probably go to the er by ambulance. so i did . i puked on the way there and then they couldnt really determine anything so they ended up discharging me ..a block from home i got sick again. we came home and slept since we had been at the hospital since 1230 am and it was now 6 am. got sick 5 x times that day, went to follow up with my regular dr and was determined to be gall stones. LAME. got sick 5 x that day and then i just feel nauseous if i try and eat. i went for a surgical consult today and will be having surgery on the 19th to have the gall bladder removed. hopefully ill have no complications. the hubs will probably take tuesday off. the kids are going to the grandparents for mon and tues nite and maybe wednesday. im a bit nervous but ready to get back to normal.

other than that this new england summer has been steamy so far. today we finally had a break in the humidity today but i hear it will be back this weekend. hopefully once im feeling better we can do fun summer stuff.

A little bit of ....everything!!

Hey everyone!


I hope this finds you well! Everyone is great here. On Saturday July 10th we drove up to new hampshire to go see the inlaws and have R and karen meet them. We were going to go out on the boat but it was overcast and did rain. We just had a good time chit chatting and eating some food. We left to come home and got here and just relaxed. Sunday was going to be an early one for us. On sunday July 11 my sister was leaving and making the journey to Michigan. Her plane was leaving at 7 am so we needed to leave here by 5. The nite before she had dragged all of her luggage into the living room to re-pack it and make sure she had everything. And also so she wouldnt wake the kids up in trying to get the luggage out of the room etc in the early am. As we were re-packing her stuff she decided we should leave at 4 am just to make sure. We worked it out with R that he would stay with the kids, i mean they all were going to be sleeping at that point anyways.And off to bed the hubs and i went since we would be up before the sun. Karen was going to put E to bed with her and i told R not to stay up to late, i mean hes 15 its summer. 330am came oh so early!The hubs and i got up got dressed as best we could in the dark( oh yeah we have had weird sleeping arrangements since we have had summer family visiting!) E&R are sharing the boys room and when karen was here she slept in there too. Only for the fact that they all sleep like normal people and M is in our room with us, not only because he rarely sleeps past 8 but because it would be more conducive to everyone getting rest.The thing was when we came out of our room R was asleep on the couch and karen was no where to be found! The hubs went into the boys room and she was still asleep! She had just gotten a new cell and hadnt quite mastered it, she said she set 3 alarms and not one went off. No worries we were ahead of the game. She got ready in land speed record time and the hubs took the luggage out and we were off. She was getting stressed as this is a very difficult time.Shes been living abroad in the netherlands for 4 years and was moving home. Before she got to boston she had had movers come to her place and pack it up and what she came with was everything else. she had a great job in an international school and made tons of friends. Plus heading back to michigan which is home, wasnt going to be that hard, but she had been trying to find a job since march and wasnt hearing anything from anything she applied for. Plus she would have to get a job and then a car and place to live etc. But we headed out got her there way ahead of schedule and i being the weepy sensitive one, balled my eyes out as i was walking her to security. The hubs hugged her and was like why are you crying you will see her again, but still ive seen her less in the past 5 years than i would have liked and hated to have her go.

In other news we have had a break in the heat wave..finally. It was so unbearbly hot and humid nothing was enjoyable even going to the beach. One thing i did for my sister was make a recipe book. Of recipes that are in the family and have been passed down, but also ones that are my own. So im asking out there in the blogosphere : DO YOU HAVE ANY RECIPES THAT YOU CARE TO PASS ON TO ME AND HER? ID LOVE TO ADD SOME NEW STUFF TO MY COOKING REPERTOIRE AND GIVE HER MORE TO ADD TO THE BOOK. Please leave them in the comment section or email me.

Also what are you doing so far this summer? What are you going to do the rest of the summer? Do any of you have any good reccomendations for a good read this summer?