Who needs a resort....

when you can stay at the Hospital for 4 days!! We got home early Tuesday morning and on Friday we were at the ER. Dave woke up at 2:00AM on Thursday with really bad stomach pain. He rolled around in pain until 9, when I called my neighbor and told her I needed to drop off my kids to take Dave in. I helped him to get dressed and put him in the car and hauled him off to the Urgent Care. (we don't have a regular doctor) The Doctor said it was his appendix.... so he sent us to the ER. We then sat in the ER for several hours before they could get Dave in to do a CT scan. When he came back from the CT scan at 4 they told him to get into a lovely flowery gown, and wait for the surgeon to come back in. Within 5 minutes the surgeon was there informing us that Dave's Appendix was in fact the problem and it had already burst!! WHAT!!! He continues on to say the surgery is to complicated and dangerous to do now because they would have to take part of his small intestine and colon to get all the pieces! OK...... so what are we suppose to do? He said it seemed to have walled off (contained itself) but he wants to keep Dave in the hospital over the weekend so he can watch to make sure the infection doesn't spread. They then wheeled him up to the 6th floor and hooked him up to several Antibiotics and there we sat for 4 days! Of course, I wasn't going to leave him alone there; not because he wanted me to stay but because there is no way that I would have let him leave me alone in there. Poor guy, he hates to sit still and 4 days in bed was way to long for him. He was released Monday morning with a slew of meds to take to finish killing the infection. He is feeling reasonably better and will have surgery to take it out next month. Now to the other half of the story.....OUR KIDS!!!! You didn't think I would keep them at the hospital with me did you! Lynsee, Amanda and Josh and Teil watched the boys for us. They were LIFESAVER!! Lynsee took them Friday, Amanda took the Saturday and Josh and Teil stayed over with them at night. You all saved my life! REALLY. We are so blessed to have such good friends here that are willing to step in at take our kids so willingly. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! Dave's Mom was able to fly in late Saturday night and stay with the boys for the reminder of time. Linda is still here making sure Dave is well and done with surgery before she plans on leaving. She really is the greatest Mother-in-Law. She has been so helpful. My stress level has gone down so much with her being here. Thanks Linda, WE LOVE YOU!! Anyway we have had a busy month! I will post after his surgery!