Memorial Day weekend blues...

Since early January, Jared has had severe stomach pains on and off. We went and got a gall bladder ultrasound for stones and they found nothing, so we tried our own experiments and found when he ate greasier foods he hurt more. So again we went to the doctor and ordered a Hida scan of his gall bladder. We found out his gall bladder was mal-functioning and does not work and that is what causes all of his pain. So Tuesday may 26th at 6:00am we were headed to the hospital for surgery to remove his gall bladder. It went well and we left at 1;30pm and had a roller coaster of a day and night. Vomiting, pain, immobility, nausea, sickness, tiredness etc. The doctors poked four small holes in his stomach and used machines to get the Gall bladder out. Amazing what technology we have come up with it.

This is right before they took him in for surgery, I had forgotten my camara and I was so mad at myself but luckily they pushed his surgery an hour back and I had a chance to run and get it. Whew! Heavenly Father loves me!

We had enough time for me to beat him in Phase 1o!

Here is the four pokes they made on his stomach they are all very small, for some reason the white bandage just happened to ooze a little more.

Here is us leaving, it took a few hours for Jared to be "ok" enough to leave, but once we left the hospital it seemed like everything was going wrong, we barely made it home before he was going to throw up, and then he was out once he hit the bed. My poor baby!

He is doing better today, he has decided he hates surgery, I keep reminding him that it will be better once he is healed and then he will realize surgery is good. Its hard when it hurts all the time. I feel so helpless at times but its slowly getting better.

In the meantime I have accomplished a few projects around the house. I have made a few trips to D.I. over the past few weeks adn found some awesome stuff!!! I love D.I. I wanted to make this Proclamation frame for awhile and we found this beautiful frame at D.I. so I finished it today!

I found this "home sweet home" at D.I. for $2 and I painted it to match my house, it was perfect for this wall, I needed something to fill it and this was perfect! I have found a key holder, a family plaque, a calendar holder, a banana holder, wooden spatulas craft things for scrapbooking, and so much more! I have spend $20 bucks in everything at D.I. It is so awesome!

Stitches!

Well it has been quite the weekend. Jared discovered a bump on his right forearm Friday morning. He went to the doctors and they said it was just a blood clot and to keep it warm and take some Advil. So he did that and it got bigger and bigger everyday. So Monday he went back in and the doctor said that he thought it was a sist or a benign tumor. So today we went in to have it removed.

This is what the bump looked like before we went in. kinda big for a blood clot... dont ya think?

Here is jared during the procedure, He watched the WHOLE THING!!!!! he was so interested to see the inside of his arm! I on the other hand had to tlook away the whole time and even without looking still had to talk myself down. I'm such a wimp!

Here is what they pulled out of his arm. It was a big ball of fat that accumulated right there in his arm. They said there really isn't an explanation for why they form in certain places and no way to prevent them. Interesting. We were sure glad it was not a Tumor or Sist.

He got stitched up with four stitches and a band-aid and we were sent on our way.

We are so grateful for friends who gave Jared a priesthood blessing. I'm sure that things would have gone a different way had we not had that blessing. We have been blessed and we are so thankful to our Father in Heaven for his watchful eye and love for us!

On a happier note Jared and I had a ward Cinco De Mayo party and made some salsa for the salsa competition and we won 2nd PLACE!!!! Woot Woot! We went to eat some of the salsa today and it had marinated all night and is very VERY very spicy!! It is now just for Jared, i can't handle that spicyness. Jared also won the Cinco De Mayo extreme musical chairs, we were full of prizes when we left! It was a blast!