November: An Unexpected Surprise

First week of November- Went smooth sailing. Parent teacher conferences were a breeze. Praise the Lord!!! Also, Karl and I both had an extra long weekend!! That is always exciting!!

Second week of November- Things get a little hazy here.
Monday: Started out on the right track. It was a professional development day at school, which for anyone who is not a teacher, this means no students and lots of sitting and listening, just like our students do everyday!! I am not a good student!!
Tuesday: I woke up with a sharp pain in my side, which led to looking into the toilet for the next few hours. I figured it was the flu. Why wouldn't it be? I work with 23 children everyday!! Next, I took my temperature, perfect! Then I realized I was not achy in the joints. Each time I spewed the pain increased incredibly instead of decreasing. Poor Karl, he was working so hard to figure out what the matter was before he went to work. I only got worse. He decided to take the morning off to take me to the doctor. At this point I could barely stand up and I was hunched over from the extreme pain. None of the doctors offices would take an early appointment so we had to head to Rocks Springs ER. (By the way it only took them about 5 minutes to get into the room and within 20 minutes they had examined me, AMAZING!).
Well, as they tested me my pain only increased in my side, which led to morphine. WOW! Relief of pain! At this point we had a good idea that it had to do with the appendix. However, since I am a lady they had to check all the bases. I had to get a nice CT scan. When they were finished they had found nothing. Nothing? How does this explain my pain? The nice doctor gave me a choice. He said, "Since we are pretty sure it is the early stages appendicitis you can stay in the hospital and wait for it to get worse or you can go home and wait until it gets worse and come back in." Well, these are great choices, wait for more pain or wait for more pain. The only difference is where do I want to wait for more pain? I decided I would wait for more pain at home. He gave me a strange look like that was a bad idea. Then he told me he would go get the surgeon.
When the surgeon came in he decided with in 1 minute I needed to have surgery. He also said many other things about why I needed the surgery, even though he was not 100% sure. Thank you doctor! and thank you Lord! Please take care of this pain.
A few hours later I went into surgery, and 30 minutes later I was finished. Of course not remembering thing! The doctor said it was definitely appendicitis. Hurray!!! and there was no more unbearable pain in my side!!!
Wednesday: we stayed one night in the hospital and everything went smoothly except we didn't get hardly any sleep. We checked out mid-morning and headed home. Yes!! Now it was time to sleep and rest. Karl slept 4 hours straight and I probably caught a good 2 hours. Yes, I would say Karl needed the rest more then I did. Poor guy tried to fall asleep in the chair at the hospital all night long!!
Thursday-Tuesday: A whole bunch of sleep and rest!!! By Tuesday I was about sick of the sleep and rest.
My students were well taken care of during this time!! They had an amazing sub!!! She is a retired second grade teacher and the best part was 1/3 of my students she had last year!!! I couldn't have asked for anything better!!
Wednesday-Friday: Back to work!!!! I was tired all week, but it was great to be back at it!!
Thanksgiving Week: First we went to Mountain View for a pre-Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday and then we went to Cody and had another fabulous meal. Family time was also exciting!

Praise God for taking care of me during all this!!! Also, I am so thankful for a husband who sacrificed two whole days from school to make sure I was taken care of!! Without him it would have been so hard to go through all of this alone. Instead he stood by me holding my hand, telling me everything was okay, getting me more pain meds when I needed them, and he even tried to braid my annoying, long hair to keep it out of my face!!