Monday, August 25, 2008

Back to School/Eat your veggies!

Brandon was SO excited to go back to school today (sarcasm) that he decided to start it off a little different than most people would start their first day back to school. Beware.. those of you close to turning 30 might not want to read! :) j/k. I woke up at about 3:20 and Brandon was sitting up in bed and then got down on the floor by the bed and then ran to the bathroom like he was going to throw up. He was rolling around and saying that he had a horrible pain under his rib cage. I thought.. OH NO!! I have no idea what that could have been. He has been having some heartburn so I thougth that might be it, but he said it hurt way worse than that! I didn't know what to do so I called my Mom.. sorry I woke you up! She said we definately need to go to the ER because he has been having some other issues that I won't discuss on here that we thought were cleared up but flared up again and just started the antibiotic again. We thought maybe it was something to do with that. Anyway, I took him to the ER. Luckilly there was NOBODY else waiting so they took us right back, made him drink a green mixture of litocane (sp) adn maalox thinking it was heartburn. Well, this didn't touch it! They did an ultrasound that we had to wait for the techs to come in for at 6:30. Tai and Joe came and Joe was able to give Brandon a blessing which made Brandon feel lots better. WE then found that he has sludge in his gallbladder! They gave him some morphine, which he apologized in advance for! ( He had this for a week during his appendix surgery and was MEAN! He made me cry almost every day and made Tai and his Mom cry too... and that is so not Brandon!) They sent us home with some percaset, nausea medicine and told us to keep an eye on it and watch for specific symptoms and follow up and get an opinion form the surgeon who did his appendix surgery last summer in regards to getting his gallbladder taken out in the future! They think that it will just pass itself! I was so glad that it wasn't another big surgery and it was only small. I don't know that I could handle another big surgery! Aren't women the ones that are supposed to go to the hospital. Who needs kids.. we have Brandon to use all our medical coverage! :) Haha, just kidding! He is falling apart and he is only 30! You would think he was like a 50 yr old man! So, any of you who are close to this age.. BEWARE and eat your veggies!! After this morning, Brandon set a goal to work out with me! He better stick with it!
They gave Brandon a dr's note to stay home from work/school. He was really concerned with missing school, so he asked the nurse and she said if he felt okay he should go, but take it very light and he can't drive because he is chuck full of morphine and percaset. He usually drives with one of his buddies but he had left by the time we left the hospital, so I drove him up while stopping to get his prescriptions filled so he has them at school. Don't worry that we were only about 15 minutes late to his first class! He says he is doing okay.. just super tired. I am right there with him. I feel like a zombie and can't get any work done! I am just glad he is okay and hopes he has a fun day at school! :) EAT YOUR VEGGIES AND EXERCISE!!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bridgie!! I'm so glad that's all that is was..

Jen said...

That is really too bad. My mom had such a painful experience prior to her gall bladder being taken out, that my dad took his out as a precaution, even though he had no current issue. Hopefully, everything will go really well. I found your blog though Lori's. It's fun to see what you two are up to. We hope that everything gets better.

Lori said...

My goodness! I hope all stays well. I actually just gave those cans to Becky Kernodle to use for her class' back to school night. Sorry. I'll start saving cans for you if she wants to mimic them, though. Let me know.

The Johnsons said...

Good greif! I don't know about him Bridge! :) I am glad that is all that it was and I hope he starts feeling better soon! :) E-mail me sometime! Miss you!!

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Elise said...

Hey, i tagged you...but I think it's probably the same one Alyssa did. Oh well :)