Just when you think......

Well, don't think.......................................
Just when you think it is going smoothly, hold on, because there WILL be a bump in the road. At least in my world, that seems the case!

At 3am Thursday morning, Kipper went off in an ambulance to the ER. After speaking to the dispatch at our local police department, we decide it was the only way. See Kipper had been having stomach, lower abdomen pain since Monday while in Phoenix. When he returned Wednesday night, he felt better but not great. So he ate and went to bed fairly early.

He was up a dozen times between 9pm-3am. He took Tylenol pm about 11:30 to try and sleep but still work through that. So at 2:50 he woke me up.

He was certain that the pain was being caused by yet another kidney stone. Confident that is what it was, we decided the only way to get him to the ER was by ambulance since we have no family and did not want to wake our one good friends in this area.

Funny though, EMS did not show up first. We requested no sirens and no lights so not to alarm the girls sleeping and neighbors....it was just a kidney stone, remember. So, Kipper was waiting on the front porch, as we told dispatch he would be. Sure enough the POLICE show up!

Officer tells us there was a big fire on the other side of town and EMS was there but would get here as soon as possible. So I came back inside (Addison heard us and I needed her to remain asleep). Kipper waited with the police officer for about 15 minutes for EMS to arrive. Then the police officer knocked to notify me of the hospital they would take him to.

For the next few minutes, Kipper sent me Text Messages to my cell phone assuring me he was ok and where he was going. I then came to bed and tried to fall asleep. After playing every tape through my head, funny ones and tragic ones, I fell asleep about 4:45 I think.

At 6:35 he sent a message and woke me. He said, not a kidney stone and they are doing more test because there was fluid in the abdomen. He was then scared. I hurried to shower and get dressed. I woke the girls and get them up and fed. I also called the friends previously mentioned to ask if they would take our girls to school and they said yes. So I dropped them off about 7:45 and went to hospital. The scan was done when I arrived and we waited for results.

As it turns out, not a kidney stone at all. He appears to have re-injured a hernia her had surgically repaired about 5 years ago. HUH!!! I laughed and Kipper was pissed! He was mad because he knew I was going to say "I TOLD YOU SO" and of course I did. Throughout the past 3-4 weeks I have repeatedly said....."do not lift that, will hurt yourself or will get a new hernia" at least 20 times! Well how about that!

So he was sent home to rest....and he has been doing just that. He slept most of Thursday thanks to Percacet (sp)! Nice pain pills! Friday he slept till about 9:00 and then got up and took just Motrin for pain during the day, that seemed enough!

Friday, he spent most of the day at my computer trying to fix a problem he had caused Sunday. Failed to mention that....maybe I should have started this entry with that. Kipper tried to fix my computer Sunday before he left town, to no avail. Instead he messed up several of my settings and it did less than before he "fixed it". So back to yesterday.

He spent a very good amount of time trying to repair whatever it was causing problems. He tried this and that and that an this. Over and over he ran new stuff and tried new things. Must have re-started a dozen times. At the end of the day he decided the best answer was to re-install my Windows Software. So he did that...but.....he did a "clean install" by accident. Oh not good.

I can say only this. Just when you think.........oh do not think.

All Gone. All Gone. Everything. Emails, files, Word Documents, Excel, Tax Returns, Bank Statements and PHOTOS.....8 years worth of PHOTOS. All our photos since our first digital camera we got in 2000. GONE.

Forever Gone.

Moral to story.............

I love my husband so very much.
Boy he cussed and screamed and punch a pillow. He was sooo mad and frustrated. I just laughed and said "it's all good".

You know what, it is. He does not have stomach cancer, something I considered. He only hurt a previous wound and it can be fixed. We have a great home, healthy happy kids and great friends. It is a computer. Only a computer. I reply on it too much as it is. I need to slow down, take a deep breath and be thankful.....I am thankful. So very thankful.

So remember....just when you think.....don't think because......
IT'S ALL GOOD

(p.s. send me your email address and address again if you are reading this!!!! Please friends and family.....I do not have them)