Recovery

Well I'm sure most of you don't want to know the details of what I want to complain about. A catheter for a day or two in the hospital is one thing, coming home with one for TEN days is a whole different bag... hah hah joke. SO my kids have been fairly fascinated with this process, they like watching it empty and think it's cool that mom can pee standing up like a boy now. AJ was gracious enough to point out to everyone during family home evening look mom is peeing. I had to look down and sure enough the tubing was nice and busy. IS this too gross for anyone?? You can stop reading, because this is my blog and my rant! I am feeling a little better, one incision site still hurts quite a bit but I laughed a lot yesterday. I started laughing at a text from Ken and then a comment Elle made in FHE and I started laughing so hard it hurt like crazy!! I didn't look to see if it made me pee my bag, but I'm sure it did. But my stitches burned so bad and still could not stop laughing. Probably one of those really tired and slightly doped up laughs. I get tired so easy and can do so little. I'm afraid we are going to wear my mom out! Even AJ, once again the astute child he is, says grandma you don't usually look like that, your eyes are kinda closed and they look a little puffy! We had a nice laugh about that. The kids had mentioned their fear of seeing me when I came home from the hospital, they said mom you look terrible, you don't have nay makeup on and your hair is everywhere. And those are not the clothes you usually wear. It's nice to have kids around to keep us real right?? Talking about children, Kirk says "you know my dad had lapriscopic surgery on his knee and he was hiking a mountain the next week". OK kirk there are some differences between a knee and the abdomen, right?? I'm missing a organ that i previously got a lot of use out of, and a hole in a organ i have lots of use out of still, it's going to take time!

post-op

I am recovering thankyou everyone. It is a slow process especially since there was a slight complication during surgery. It was a risk I knew about before, because i've had soo many c-sections they couldn't predict what my uterus had fused itself to. And the lucky winner was the bladder so they poked a hole in it quite on accident. So I have the wonderful pleasure of wearing a pee bag for ten days. I won't know how that pans out for 8 more days. The kids love to tell me how full it's looking or that somethingnis stuck in the tube or even watch me empty the thing. NExt week i go in and the pump my bladder full of dye and give me a cat scan to seeif it's healed or still leaking, i imagine that will be boat loads of fun. The good news is, I made the right decision taking it out, the DR says there was something very wrong with it and no wonder I was having so many problems. THey will tell me exactly what was wrong with it on Monday after it's been run under a microscope. It is rather difficult to sit at the computer and type. so this is it for now. i just wanted to give ya'll a quick update and say thanks for your prayers and phone calls and texts!

Matthew is my best child he does every thing i ask him but some times he doesent feel like but other times he does

Bugs

Ok I thought I would give Kris a run for her money on big bugs! This is a spider, that Matt found wandering my HOUSE!! Oh but I'm sure there won't be spiders anywhere if you come for Thanksgiving Kris, so don't even give it a second thought!!

AJ project

This is Aj's pizza box book report. It was on Paul Revere and he had to put down five facts about him and then six objects that had to do with Revere and show the class and see if they could guess who his character was. I went and bought baby bottles and he glued 16 of them in there since he had that many kids, and then a horse and I found a tiny latern key chain that lit up, stars since he was patriotic, and a tea bag. The teacher actually emailed me she loved it so much with the clues written in the srtipes, and she asked AJ is she could rip off the latern after he presented so they could see it light up! Very cute and successful! By the way in back of AJ in the picture is the bear I discused in the earlier blog, the one who got in trouble because his head was in a cast. It's funny he ended up being in a picture, it's like seeing someone from a crime scene. Like the movie Monsters Inc where they accidentaly get a picture of Boo at the restraunt, anyway thought that was funny. AND again by the way, you see how dark it is in the background?? That is because we got to school at the butt-crack of dawn here, we are at school by 7:15, so ridiculous!!

Pumpkin patch Pictures

This was our crazy day at the pumkin farm. Kirk and Connor had to be at the stake center by 7:45 for a day camp for 11 yr old scouts, then I took Elle and AJ to our super sat of relief society. We met back at our house to go to the pumkin patch at 12:30. We go to one pumpkin patch that is about 30 mins away and go through their corn maze which was a fun design this year for the election. Then we drive another 20 minutes to a pumkin patch that has pumkins as big as Elle. They weren't actually as big as that this year, but they were still very large, the biggest we got weighs in at 97 pounds and we got 2 of them. AJ and Elle liked the smaller ones which Kirks back was grateful for. Last year with the pumkins we had to get out the power saw to carve them. Very fun stuff! Matt was not with us, he had a camporee that he spent the night at day at with the scouts. I then ended out the day babysitting for my friend, since she lovingly watched mine the night before!! Quite a weekend!

Tired

I am soo tired. This is nothing new, nothing to exclaim about or put into writing but I am. Had to have a few vials of blood taken today so they know my iron levels and what kind of blood i have in case i need a transfusion next week in my surgery. Odds are I won't need one, if all goes as I hope and pray it will i will in fact lose very little blood. But it does make me wish family were here to donate a little for the just in case scenario. Anyway it is silly how tired I am, they took so little. But the idea of doing homework, driving kids to scouts, making and cleaning dinner is a little daunting. Would I be remiss in hiring a cleaner just for the one month?? I'm sure a pioneer women wouldn't have had to! If I eat everything the kids eat and sleep when they sleep can i go and jump and flip on a trampoline like they do for hours on end??