Sunday, December 6, 2009

We can't handle any more catastophies!!

So, I just thought I would let ya'll know about our weekend! Well, actually it started Thursday night! At about 7:00 pm ish I got a phone call from my mother-in-law, Linda! She sounded happy enough as she said, "Guess where I am?" When I asked where, she said Jordan Valley Medical Center. I asked why, thinking she was there visiting someone she knew, cause she is always doing things for other people. She told me she was in a car accident. She didn't exactly know how bad it was, but they brought her by ambulance on a back board and wouldn't let her get off. She drove a 1991 Honda Civic Hatchback, and was hit by a 3/4 ton Chevy. He rearended her going 45 miles per hour as she was coming to a stop. She said that she was going to get someone to give her a blessing, and I told her if she would wait we would be there in like 15 min. Tom was asleep and he woke right up when I said that and was asking me who it was and what was going on. I told him and of course he was kinda freaking out!! Linda had a spinal fusion when she was 14 years old as a result of polio and would be in a lot of trouble if one of those cracked! I told her to call Melinda and let her know what was going on and we would swing by and pick her up on the way to the hospital. Well, we got to Melinda's and she didn't answer her door or phone, so I just kept calling and when she finally answered I asked if she was ready to go to the hospital with us. She had no idea what I was talking about and I had to tell her what had happened. That was horrible, but as soon as she got out to the car, we got a hold of Linda and she was able to talk to her. She happened to be in the shower when Linda tried to call her and when she had seen that she missed so many calls, she tried calling Linda and couldn't get a hold of her. Anyways, we made it to the hospital and she was off the back board, but still had a neck brace on. Tom gave her a beautiful blessing and blessed her that she would be able to get well! After a while they took her for x-ray and ultrasound. While she was gone, some other friends came and helped give Tom and Melinda blessings to help them feel at peace! They are just a bit uneasy about anything happening to anyone in their family since they lost their dad, which I think is pretty understandable! Well, she got back from radiology and we waited for the results. Everything looked great!! We were so relieved! We were able to take her home and Tom and I ran to get her perscription. It was about 1:00 am by the time we made it home and we were all exhausted! We said a few prayers of gratitude and all tried to go to bed. Tom and I stayed up for at least a half hour more trying to decide if it would be better for me to go to work or stay home at 7:00 am. I really wanted to stay and take care of Linda, but she had Melinda and Tom there and I wasn't sure how much she needed me, when we were so short staffed at work! I decided I was too tired to decide then and set my alarm for 5:00 am and decided I would figure it out then! I kept waking up because I was having acid reflux that was really hurting me, and at 3:00 am I woke up with the worst acid reflux I had ever felt! I decided I needed to go throw up. I got up and threw up quite a bit and it burned SO bad! I needed to go to the bathroom so I yelled for Tom to get me a bowl I could throw up in. That's when I started throwing up blood! Lots of it! We decided that we better go to the hospital. I got to IMC ER and they, of course, sent me over to Labor and Delivery. They put me on the monitors and while they were getting my history I threw up more blood! This time at least it was less! They brought me in something for nausea and something to help reduce the acid in my belly. They took some blood and of course my blood count was low, but not dangerous yet, so if they could reduce the acid and stop me from throwing up, I would probably be okay and they wouldn't need to scope me! I did not want to be scoped! I didn't want to be sedated while I was pregnant, and I wasn't about to do it unsedated! We were able to go home about 9:30 with a perscription for acid medication! We went and picked up Linda and went to see the car. It was TOTALLED!! The truck had hit the back, where she had her massage table, which rammed into her seat bending her seat back over the massage table, and the bent part jammed into her back. This gave us the reason for the big bruise and cut on her back, and let us know how truly blessed she was to not have any of those fusions separate! Then we took her to the doctor to have a follow up and decide what to do to get her better and working again! We got home and made dinner and ate and all of us crashed! We were all so tired, especially where Tom and I had only gotten an hour and a half of sleep! We do feel very blessed however that even know all these things had to happen, neither one of us were injured beyond repair!