Emergency!

You may all think that the picture above is from Adam's surgery last month but unfortunately it isn't. On Monday Adam started having a pain in his right side so he made a doctor's appointment for the next morning. He has been having this pain on and off for the last year but this time it was worse. The next morning the doctor's office called and said that the doctor was sick luckily they were able to reschedule him to see another doctor. At the doctors they did blood work and everything was normal but when the doctor pressed on his stomach it was obvious that he was in severe pain so she sent him to get a CT scan and told him not to eat or drink anything just in case they needed to do surgery. He called me and let me know what was going on so I left school and met him to go get the CT scan. After the CT scan they told him that they couldn't see anything wrong so she was referring him to go see a gastroenterologist and gave him a prescription that might help him. When we were waiting fat the pharmacy to get the prescription filled someone that worked there asked Adam if he had his phone with him and he said yes. Right after that the doctor called him apparently the doctor had read to CT wrong at first and he actually had something wrong with his appendix and we needed to go the ER immediately so that he could have his appendix removed. When we got to the ER We only waited for about two minutes before they took us back to a room. After he got into a gown they started an IV and then moved him to the Surgical section of the hospital. They were kind of rushing us through everything because they wanted to get him into surgery but then we had to sit and wait for a while. Apparenly the anesthesiologist was working on another case and we were just waiting for him to finish. They did the surgery by making three small incisions and then they took his appendix out through one of the incisions. He seemed to being doing much better when I walked into recovery this time than when I saw him after his nose surgery. The doctor gave him the choice of staying the night or going home and he decided to go home. We just had to wait until he could get up and walk around to make sure that he still was doing OK after that. Today he is still doing well he has trouble standing up and sitting down because he has to use his stomach muscles but other than that he is doing great. Oh and I am not allowed to smile, laugh or talk when I am around him because laughing really makes his stomach hurt.

Food

Adam has a knack for eating everything thing that I want to eat right before I want it. An example of this is whenever I buy Totinos pizzas no matter how many I buy he will always eat the last one a day or two before I try to make one. Since this has happened so many times the other night when I decided that I wanted ice cream I decided to ask him if he had already eaten it all he told me that he had because it was better than the ice cream that he had bought. He was generous enough to offer me his ice cream which he informed me wasn't as good as mine. It also had peanut butter cups in it which I don't like. I decided to still go downstairs and see if we had anything else to eat when I opened the freezer I saw my ice cream still in the freezer so I pulled it out and opened it to find out that he had left one spoonful of ice cream in the container. I was so glad that I had asked him about it before because I would have been so angry if I had opened to container and found only a tiny bit left if he hadn't already told me that it was all gone.

Black Friday

This year for black friday I didn't see any really great deals on things that I wanted but since I love to go shopping I still went. Austin was my shopping buddy this year. Our first stop was walmart for DVDs at midnight. We had a ton of people so it was easy to make sure that everyone got what they wanted we even ended up with some extras that we had to put back. After we were done at walmart we had sometime to kill so we were going to wait in line at Best Buy but when we got there the line was already around the building and its freezing so we decided to go to Denny's instead. After Denny's Austin was really tired and was starting to fall asleep so I took him home (he's a rookie). After I dropped Austin off I went and met up with everyone else and then my mom and I went to Best Buy and just sat in the car until the whole line went in. We were still able to get everything we went for without waiting in line. Our next stop was Staples to get some office chairs. Adam and I each have our own desk and we have just been using folding chairs but I saw office chairs were only $30.00 (normally $100.00) so I thought that it would be worth getting them. Staples was the least organized place that we went and they were kind of rude. They had two different lines and we found out that we were in the wrong line when we got almost to the front but there was nothing designating that there was a difference between to two lines. Apparently one was for getting computers and the other one was just for regular checkout. Our black friday tradition is to go get pretzels from Pretzel Maker when we are done shopping so after a quick stop at Target we went and had pretzels and then I went home to take a quick hour nap before I had to go to work. I don't have any pictures because I was too busy shopping.

Thanksgiving

This year we had thanksgiving dinner at Ann and Calvin's our contribution to dinner was mashed potatoes and Adam was obsessed with making the perfect mashed potatoes. He did extensive research on different ways to make mashed potatoes and finally found a recipe that he thought would be great. Unfortunately the recipe required a specific type of potatoes and it wasn't the type that we have 50 lbs. of in the pantry (every year my parents buy us a 50 lbs. bag of Idaho potatoes). Since I was at work and he was still taking pain medication he asked my mom if she would get the stuff for the potatoes and since Robyn was already out my mom passed the task on to her. I'm so glad that I have a great family that is willing to help us out. He missed calculated how long it would take to make the potatoes so we were 45 minutes late getting to dinner luckily my family is always running a little behind so they were just finishing everything up when we got there. There was so much good food and I felt like I didn't get to eat enough of it because I got full too quickly. Next year I think that I will start training for thanksgiving so I can eat more. Every year after dinner we always sit down and look at the ads to plan our strategy for shopping the next. I can't believe that store just keeping opening earlier and earlier.There were a lot more pictures with people showing their chewed up food but I thought that one was enough for this postAdam was dumping his gravy off his plate and onto all of the rolls