Ricky Remus installed some new lights for us in the sports room and the kitchen. Steve and I were tired of the old florescent light fixtures - the ones that use the long skinny tubes - in those rooms. The one in the sports room had become quite finicky and it was never certain, when the light switch was turned on, if there would be full light or the dim half-light that occurs from a bad bulb or ballast. Evidently, the ballast was really bad - starting to leak? - so good thing we had it replaced.
Here are the new lights:
At some point we will need to paint the ceiling, I guess....
Lizzy and I took Violet out to lunch at Bob Evans on Wednesday. Violet turned 91 this month and we wanted to celebrate.
Sarah was our server. She was at work even though she was in pain. Tuesday morning, around 3:30, we were awakened by her in our bedroom. She had driven over from her apartment wanting a Priesthood blessing from Steve because of the extreme back pain she was experiencing. The blessing helped a little. She went to see a chiropractor on Tuesday where he got her medical history, took an X-ray, but did no treatments. An appointment was made on Thursday for that! Frustrating.
Here she is Tuesday trying to rest. Sadie and Bones are helping :)
Wednesday, at the restaurant, she was still in pain but had to work. Thursday, the pain was now in her chest and stomach and intense enough that she went to Urgent Care where they did a chest and stomach X-ray and took blood work. Didn't give her anything for the pain, really didn't do anything else! She had to open at Bob Evans Friday morning but got someone to cover for her at 8:00 so she was sitting at our dining room table eating something when the Urgent Care doctor finally called her to tell her to come back for a CT scan. Then, in the late afternoon, she had an ultra sound. She and Bones were hanging out with her work friend, Emily, in the meantime. FINALLY, after the ultrasound, the doctor called her to send her to the ER for a surgeon to examine her! And, we finally had a diagnosis - a gall bladder that would likely need to be taken out. That happened Saturday morning and, it was so inflamed that they had to remove it surgically rather than laparoscopically. It took 4 hours. Here she is post-surgery
In the meantime, in St. Louis, Noah started to vomit Wednesday night. Since Lucy had strep, and had thrown up, it was just assumed he also had strep. He went to the doctor Thursday and, sure enough, it was. Check out Quinn in the background - what a mischief maker!
Only, Noah's stomach pain continued through Thursday and, by the middle of the night (early Friday morning), Emily and Noah were on their way to the ER and, turns out, he had a bad appendix! And they took it out Friday.
A small amount of the inflamed appendix perforated so Noah had to stay in the hospital a little longer than usual to get IV antibiotics.
Stay tuned for the next blog for the rest of the story....
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