Good freakin’ morning

So, I am up way ahead of when I would like to be.  It is now 720.  Mackenzie, Chris and I have been up since a little before 6.  I woke up several times during the night to breastfeed, help Chris use the bathroom, use the bathroom myself and just waking up.  Chris used to have night terrors (Remember the spiders the size of dogs and the sprained ankle?) pretty frequently.  I think that it might have been one of his medications he used to take because he hasn’t had them in awhile.  Last night, however, he thought for sure he was falling off the bed, which he wasn’t, and jerked himself into a fit of pain trying to save himself from falling.  This of course meant I had to get up and make sure that he didn’t rip his wound open.  He didn’t.

So, since I am up I am using this moment while Mackenzie tries to crawl, Kaelan is asleep, Chris is at least content for the moment and my laundry isn’t in need of my assistance to write about yesterday.

Before we went to Georgia on Monday we stopped by our church, and I went in and lit a candle and said a prayer for Chris.  Then we were off.  We went to Judy and Matt’s and ate out at Ryan’s (they changed the name from Fire Mountain to Ryan’s even though it is the same company).  We got back and socialized for a little bit while the kids played.  Jacob kept trying to sleep with Kaelan much to Kaelan’s dismay, but we finally got them in separate beds and asleep.

Chris and I went to our room, and I began my test for work.  Pam told me that it wasn’t too long, but that stupid test took me over 2 hours.  She took her test over a year and a half ago, so I will forgive her this once.    I am assuming that it was a different test.  I passed with a 91.5.  I have a list of about 6 questions that I think were incorrectly marked wrong, so I am going to be disputing those in the next day or so.  Okay, back to the story.  When I had my planned C-section I was a wreck.  I couldn’t sleep at all.  I was assuming that Chris wouldn’t be able to sleep as well, but boy was I wrong.  He was out in about 5 minutes and snoring extremely loud.  What?  Back surgery?  Who?  I’m fine.  I’ll just go straight to sleep like nothing is happening.   Grr.  Lucky.

Five a.m. came pretty quickly, but luckily Mackenzie had only woken up once to eat.  We got ready and left at about 635.  Chris was on the phone with his mom, and I was telling him to hurry it up.  I don’t know if many of you know about Atlanta traffic or have lived there, but it is ridiculous.  You leave the house at 625 and you will get there at 745.  You leave there at 635 like we did, and you will get there at 850 which is exactly what happened.  We made it all the same, and we weren’t late.  I drove the whole way and handled the traffic great.  It took my mind off of the surgery.  When we got there we parked in the Crawford Long Parking Garage.  I didn’t like it too much because our truck is so tall.  I was driving through there with my head ducked like I personally was going to hit my head on the ceiling.  What a dork!

When we got where we needed to go my dad was already there.  I was so happy to see him.  We checked in, and Chris called his dad.  While he was still on the phone the buzzer went off for Chris to go back.  Gimme a break!  I was thinking, what kind of crap is this?  You never get called exactly when they tell you to be there.  Anyway, I kissed him, and he went back.  They gave me the buzzer now to use until we left so that they could reach me anywhere in the hospital.  So, we packed it up and went downstairs to have some breakfast.  They had a really nice cafe there.  I had grits, bacon and potatoes and milk.  My dad had the same plus eggs.

After breakfast we went back upstairs so that I could feed the baby.  I didn’t want to be worrying about Mackenzie screaming to be fed while I was trying to visit with Chris.  While I was feeding her the buzzer went off.  I went back, and they just kind of hurried me in and out.  They said that he had been bumped up, and they were taking him right then.  At the time I was a little miffed that I didn’t get to sit with him a little bit longer than 30 seconds, but it helped my nerves.  Less time, less nerves.  So, I went back out to wait with my dad and the baby.  (Kaelan was at Judy and Matt’s playing with Jacob and Brener.)

My dad and I talked.  We played with the baby.  My dad, in true Edmond style met a friend to talk to for hours whose wife was out of surgery back in recovery.  She was operated on by Chris’s surgeon.  There was this really cool screen that had a number for each patient.  We were able to see the different stages of Chris’s process throughout the day.  That really helped.  It sucks when you just sit there and have no clue what is going on.  After a couple of hours his screen changed from Pt in OR to PT out of OR.  Within a few minutes the doctor was out to see us.

He explained that everything had gone well.  Chris looked just the way that he thought he would based on the x-rays and MRIs that were done.  He also said that there wasn’t as much nerve compression as he thought there would be.  He said that Chris’s leg pains most likely were a mix of some nerve compression and chemicals released in the body due to the disc being in the wrong place.  He told me to have Chris recover for at least 3 weeks before proceeding with the lipoma removal.  Everything went well, and after I made some phone calls we went to eat lunch.

I had a salad, a pannini and a fruit cup, and my dad had a catfish plate.  We ate slowly this time before heading back up to the waiting room.  When we got back and sat down I fed Mackenzie some peas.  She loves peas!  Nothing else has been as successful with the food yet, but she loves peas.  Within a little while I was buzzing again.  Luckily I had her full of peas and milk.  I went back and there he was, all doped up.  He is so comical during these post-procedure moments.  I have to giggle at him too because I know how I got after Kaelan was born.  I was much more self aware after Mackenzie, so I made sure I didn’t act as stupid.  Something that really made me giggle is the fact that he can’t shower until the 14th.  I doubt he remembers being told this, but he is going to be SO mad.  I guess I will wipe him down with wet wipes, Kaelan style.

When I went in they were in the process of getting him up out of bed.  This was a little difficult for him, but he did it.  Just after a few minutes though they were asking him if he was ready to get going.  I helped him get dressed and go to the bathroom.  This was trouble because he had apparently had a catheter.  He didn’t know or couldn’t remember, but he did.  I left him, loaded up the baby stuff and headed out to pick him up.  My dad helped him get in the car.  We dropped my dad off where he parked and we headed off.  It was great having my dad there, and in fact I would have been in trouble without him.  Children under 16 aren’t allowed back.  I would have been pretty upset.

We headed to Judy and Matt’s house.  Traffic at 230 was great in comparison to the morning, but of course it started pouring down rain.  I was definitely not in the mood for that.  I arrived to pick up Kaelan, and he acted out causing me to spank him.  (Judy only gave him 1 of her spider decoration instead of 2.  Sheesh)  I loaded him in the car and the rest of our stuff while getting drenched.  We stopped and got some Burger King and made the trip home.  It stopped raining for a little bit which made me happy because we were racing to get to the pharmacy before 6.  Then about 45 minutes out from Murphy it started pouring.  This prompted my eyes to start pouring as well.  Nonetheless, we made it to the pharmacy just in time, and they filled the Percocets.

We arrived home and 1 by 1 I got everyone out of the car.  I fed the baby and then unloaded our things while Kaelan kept asking for his stupid pirate gear that was in the truck.  I was about ready to kill him.  Finally, I got what he wanted, and all was right in Kaelan’s world.  I relaxed for about 3 minutes before calling Direct TV to try and get things going in the bedroom for Chris.  That crazy lady told me to crawl under the house.  What is she, nuts?  So, that didn’t happen.  The stupid thing was working before we left and then quit.  I just figured I would call them when we got back and all would be right in Chris’s world too.  Nope.  I guess we will be spending the money on a service call.  There is no way I am changing out DVDs every hour and a half.

I put the baby to bed and started getting ready myself, but my 2 men were hungry…Poptarts, raisins, popcorn and water.  I played a computer game for a few minutes before going to bed.

Okay fast forward from a crappy night, and here I sit.  The laundry is now ready to be moved to the dryer, and it is about time to get Kaelan up and start breakfast around here.  I did have a nice realization this morning that since Chris isn’t going to be going to work I will probably have my laundry reduced by 1/3.  This is a pretty good thing!

That’s about it for now.  I have my schedule to keep.  Thanks again to everyone, and if you offered to help in any way then I hope you meant it.  I don’t think I will really need much in the way of running my house and keeping things going, but I might need help maintaining my sanity.

Oh, and please keep Judy and Matt in your thoughts and prayers.  Yesterday while she was making lunch Jacob fell off the couch.  He broke his collarbone in the process.  Poor Jake.  That really sucks.  They are extremely great people, but they have 2 boys just 2 years apart.  I am thinking that their time of broken bones and such might just be beginning.  Thank goodness for health insurance even if it is expensive!