What a week so far!!

Well... we were up around 4 am on Monday to allow us enough time to drive to the imaging clinic for Am's CT scan. Got there 'right' on time. She had to drink the specified amount of fluid... and then wait the 45 minutes... which turned into more than an hour. I was allowed to go into the room with her. They had to do an iv ... :( :( which turned into a terrible situation at the time. 'sigh'

We were told that they would have results within the day. The radiologist did make a comment that knowing Dr David... that he would be in touch soon. We left there and ate some breakfast close by. I was running late to work... so I called into say that I would be about 30 minutes late. Just as we were coming back into town... Am needed to use the restroom. You can only imagine that after not having anything for over 10 hours... then drinking ALL of that stuff... it was serious. I pulled over at the back of the mall and hurried in. During the time she was going... I looked at my phone ONLY... to realize that I'd missed a phone call from Dr David already. OMG... it had only been just over an hour. :O :O :O He left a message stating that he would call back because he was not going to leave these type of results on a record. :S :S :S Nice. I could have puked at that point.

I got Am back to school... discussed the situation with the teacher... and headed to work. Just as I was getting there. My phone rang. It was Dr David. He started by saying that he had some 'GREAT news... so far'. The image that the u/s gave that was a tumor... was actually that Am has a left kidney that is 'rotated'. The radiologist confirmed on the CT scan that it was only rotated. She does have some issues with her intestines which are then pushing ON the rotated kidney... which could be why she gets in such pain. He wants us to give her some med's... to help with that problem. He said that if it doesn't ease the pressure / pain... that there could possibly be a kink in that kidney with it being rotated. So... as of now... we are taking the med's and doing as Dr David has told us to do. She's such a trooper though. She still has that 'bite' at times... but hopefully this will do the trick and we can avoid more needles and scans for the time being.

Certainly makese a person appreciate their health... and their family. Thanks again for all of the prayers, texts, and calls. No words can express the feeling of prayer around us. :)

January 31st...

So... with the weather being as nice as it was... I decided that we were going to travel to Lincoln to see 'Hotel For Dogs'. We'd missed it in town... so we would do supper and then go there. Amber had a friend... and Jas' had one too. We left town around 5... to have supper at Red Robin. After getting 'thru' supper... only 4 trips to the bathroom with 4 girls... we headed off to the movie.

Got there in plenty of time... but had NO CLUE... what laid ahead of me. Thank GOD ... Steve went along. I can honestly say... that I made more than a dozen trips to the restroom. Jas and her friend was fine... but Am's tummy wasn't well... and then there was something definitely wrong with her friends also. :S :S :S

At one point... I was walking down the very long hallway to the bathroom... and Am doubled over in pain. :( :( :( I scooped her up to get her to the bathroom.

After the movie... we 'skipped' to the Durango... to only at that point figure out WTH was wrong with Jaycie (Am's friend). She's had an upperrespiratory cold... and started to cough... then spit up some of her supper. Oh boy...

Well... it was that point that I realized that she had drank milk for supper. Of ALLLLLL things. 'sigh' That's when... the milk made it's appearance. LOL! We made it to Shopko... to clean her up since it was in the parking lot of the mall that this all started. She felt a lot better... so I quickly started home. Within 15 minutes... we were pulled over. She lost her supper then. Oh dear... poor thing. I called her mom to explain where we were... and what had taken place. She felt so bad. I was honestly surprised that we didn't have all 4 girls puking... ROFL! Obviously it does make a difference when you have siblings. :P :P :P Jas' friend spent the night... and the house finally crashed at 10:30. WHAT ... a night. lol