The ER Visit...

Wow, where to begin... We are a little behind as after my last entry we ended up in the ER for Ryan ended up having Appendicitis.

Back to Friday the 26th, Ryan and I left town around 4:30ish and drove down to NC with Abby. At that moment he was telling me his stomach was somewhat achy, but he said he had had the pain before. So of course I said can you please at least be happy and put on a smiley face because we are going to visit your friends for our last shower and last weekend away before Matthew arrives. Well of course I thought it was just a random ache he gets every now and then and thought he was being a baby about it. I knew it was bad and something worse when he couldn't sleep on Friday night. He still insisted that he would get over it and no need to go to the doc. We got him some Alieve and Motrin, which helped the pain a bit, but after our shower on Saturday evening it just continued to get worse. I knew it was getting even worse when he wasn't himself and wouldn't socialize friends; that was not the Ryan I knew and we had to do something about it. He said he just needed to sleep and we could leave early Sunday AM to go to a prompt care in Richmond. Well he couldn't fall asleep again so I insisted we take him to the ER in Henderson, NC. This was the closest hospital to where we were. Funny cause Ryan knew where the hospital was for me just in case, something were to happen for me or Matthew to need to go there. Little did he know he would end up there for two nights. So we arrived in the ER and they took us back pretty much right away. Did many tests and it wasnt until 4am that they said it looks like you will be staying with us, at that time, they finally gave Ryan some meds to releive the pain until he had to go into surgery. At that time is when they told us he did have acute appendicitis from the CT scans. He ended up having surgery around 12:30ish on Sunday and then we had to stay Sunday night. The Hodges were all wonderful to us and very helpful. They brought our bags to us and food to me. Needless to say it was a very long weekend and difficult to sleep in a hospital espcially the first night when all I had was a chair. We ended up not getting home till Monday the 29th in the afternoon. It was nice to be home. I cared for Ryan and tried to be a good nurse. All in all the shower Ryan's friends put on for Matthew was fabulous! Other than Ryan's ER visit which we could not help we could not have asked for a better shower on the lake! A big THANK YOU to all who were able to make it. We always love being at the lake and hopefully next time we see you all we will all be healthy and happy and have a wonderful happy and healthy baby boy, Matthew, with us!