St. George was a nice get away for our little family. We left Friday afternoon right after Scott taught his last class for the year. It was so fun to spend some time with my grandparents. I wish I would have thought to take a picture with them. My Grandmother always knows what I need to hear, and in the mornings my Grandpa and I would sneak away and share a root beer on the back porch. My grandpa is in the late stages of Parkinson's disease which has affected his ability to speak at an audible level so we didn't talk much, but I managed to see a smile in his eyes several times. They are such great examples to me. At one point I told my grandmother that he was very lucky to have her in his life, and she smiled back and said " And I am very lucky to have him".
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Unfortunately we had a rough night with Hudson. Which ended up with us going to the ER at Dixie regional the next morning. He has been having severe abdominal pain that has kept him up for over a week. Before we left for this trip we took him to an instacare where he had an abdominal x ray that showed lots of air in his bowels. The physician said it would pass in two or three days, but it got worse and we took him into his pediatrician who did another two x rays and basically said the same thing. He thought it might be diet related so we saw a specialist at Mckay Dee. He tested positive for allergies to cows milk and casein which is found in cheese and other diary products. So we have since been following a strict dairy free diet for him, and it seemed like things were getting better. After the night we had on Friday I was worried about an appendicitis. So we had more x-rays, blood draws, IV inserted, medicines given, and CT exams which made for a long day. Scott's grandfather was actually in the hospital at the same time getting heart stents, so Scott was able to see Ron before he was discharged and Kathleen was kind enough to visit us in our little ER room. When all the tests came back it did not appear to be appendicitis, but he had a very high white blood cell count 18.6 so we returned the next day to make sure it was coming down, which it fortunately did. Phew! We were so grateful that our little man did not need surgery.
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During our waiting period in the ER we had the most awesome nurse. Hudson said he could hear a helicopter and she it set it up so we could go out and see the lifefight helicopter. Nurse Jackie was the flight nurse who showed us around. She was the cutest nurse I have ever met. She wore red lipstick, read stud earnings, and retro red sun glasses. She seriously made me rethink my occupation. Hudson had a blast, but was a little tired from the night before so it didn't last too long.
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The Next day we went to church with my grandparents and ate an amazing Lunch with them. Then we headed over to Ron and Kathleen's home. We took the kids on a little walk after dinner to see the petroglyphs. The kids had a blast together. |
These two are pretty inseparable these days. Oliver was so worried about Hudson's tummy. One night we went out to eat at Cafe Rio and Hudson couldn't have a cheese quesadilla and he cried about it because he felt bad for him. We were so glad the Wagners were with us on this trip.
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