Instead of a nice quiet Christmas Eve at home, we were in the ER. Instead of a Christmas morning of Dean giving out toys to our kids, he gave his appendix to a doctor.
Children put a whole new spin on being sick and needing to get help quickly. As with many things, kids, just by sheer virtue of existing, make the issue more about them. Gone are the days were you can just hop in the car and drive to the ER and get yourself taken care of. Here are the days where you have to consider timing, and child care, and well, stuff. Because of kids, I made Dean call our nurse hotline thingee at 6 instead of 7 (though His Manliness really wanted to wait until 7 - which is bedtime). Because of kids, we couldn't just go straight to the ER, but rather first had to call the MIL, ask to have them stay the night with her, pack their shit up, take them there, put them to bed and THEN go to the ER. Appendicitis is a strange thing - because he wasn't in enough pain for us to really need to skip those steps and just call an ambulance, but you never know when the little bugger might rupture.
Reason #1 why we moved here plays out in yet another way - family there when you need them.
So we're going to have Christmas on Saturday instead. Thankfully, our kids have no idea what today is or what it really brings as far as loot, so they'll never know the difference.
10 comments:
Yikes! What a xmas memory. My best wishes for Dean's fast recovery.
A speedy recovery! My husband has his out a few summers ago. And Merry Christmas!
Wow! I hope Dean feels better soon! Merry christmas!
Katie
Merry Christmas...this Saturday!! I just stumbled into your blog when I searched gluten free cooking...my daughter was recently diagnosed with an allergy to gluten and I'm on a mission to learn as much about it as possible.
Not to mention find some edible gluten free meals! Nice to meet you!
Oh, man! Tell Dean I said speedy recovery. And have a merry Christmas tomorrow!! Let me know if you need any help with kids in the next few days, okay?
xx
Yuck! Things could have been a lot worse, but they could have been a lot better. Swift recovery to Dean and Merry Christmas to you all. Enjoy tomorrow.
Holy cow! I just read this! Glad to hear that Dean's ok. I'd offer to come over and help out but we're going away 'til Monday... :-(
Give the kids a big hug for me and give Dean a manly pat on the shoulder.
Dude...that's no fun. But think of it this way: he only has one appendix, so he never has to do this again. I hope Saturday was fun and he can belly-laugh again very, very soon.
When you get a chance, could you e-mail me? I know you found out that your issue wasn't really gluten, but I'm wondering about what you went through...my husband's going through some scary symptoms and we're not sure if gluten's part of the picture or not.
Merry Christmas, sweetie :-)
Wow. Glad he's ok. THANK GOD it didn't rupture like mine did. I waited way too long, wanting to avoid the ER on Thanksgiving. It didn't feel like I was THAT sick. It took a good two weeks in the hospital and six weeks of recovery. Eek.
Anyway, have a great Xmas on Saturday and an awesome New Year. :)
Holy Crap Melanie!! I hope Dean is back on his feet and that you had a wonderful "Christmas". :)
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