A little update

Hey family!

First of all, thanks so much for all of your prayers this past week/weekend. I am now at home recovering from the appendectomy (did I spell that right?). I had to have the surgery last night, and it was a rough night after because the Dr's did not communicate to the nurses that I was allowed to have my regular migraine medicine following the surgery.

My mom came and saved the day the following morning. She took one look at me (I was in very very bad shape) and took great pains to explain that I was not hurting from the surgery, I was hurting from the migraine. Anyway, after trying the morphine (which didn't ease the migraine at all) and the regular anti-nausea (which also did nothing) they finally listened to my mom and got me the regular migraine medicine. Within 15 minutes I was sitting up and talking. My mom actually said that for the first time in 2 hours I could open my eyes and communicate! Before that I could not do anything other than sign thumbs up or thumbs down because talking made me so sick.

So, the doctors and nurses all pointed fingers at eachother as to why I didn't recieve the medicine I needed. I did have one nurse named Mike who was really wonderful, he was the one who finally went and called the Dr so that I could get the migraine medicine.

I am now at home as I said before, and I am very pleased to report that the surgery did seem to fix the pain coming from my appendix. This was a big concern because the tests did not show that I have appendicitis, so it was a bit of a risk to remove the appendix and hope that it was the cause.

Please continue your prayers that I have a speedy recovery with no further questions, and that we all stay healthy! Cody is having to give up his bike trip for financial reasons, and I have to return my road bike that I just bought last week. I guess God has a reason for everything, and I am just so grateful that I have a wonderful family to pray over me and keep my spirits up!

On that note - rain check on the Pepto dance Uncle Matt?

Thanks again to all of you!
Love
Emily