I'm Dying...or so I thought!

Friday morning, May 11, I woke up at 6:00 a.m. with a bad pain on the left side of my back. I really thought that I needed to used the bathroom...get all the junk out from the night. However, the pain got worse and using the bathroom didn't help at all. I got in the shower...knowing that I needed to get ready for work. The heat of the shower helped a little but I was still in a lot of pain. I laid on the floor, I laid in bed, I paced up and down the hall...now it is about 6:30. I am in tears now and in so much pain that I can't stand up. Around 6:45 a.m. I called Lisa--not knowing what else to do. She immediately mentioned that it could be a kidney infection and that I would need to see a doctor. So, she came and got me. By this time, 7:15 a.m. I am ready to die...wishing that I could. I have never been in so much pain! I made it into the doctor's office and onto the floor. This is where the doctor found me!

He came in and this is how the conversation went...
   Dr... "Does you back hurt?"
   Me..."YES!"
   Dr..."Does the pain wrap around to the front?"
   Me..."YES!"
   Dr..."You have a kidney stone."

I am sure that there were more questions but these are the ones that I remember. He handed me a barf bag...which I used shortly after he left. Soon the nurse came into give me two shots...one for nausea and one for pain! In about 20 minutes...she was one of my most favorite people!

They sent me over to X-ray for a Cat Scan. They just wanted to be sure that it really was a stone and that it wasn't too big for me to pass. By the time I was finished with that, my pain shot had started to work and I was feeling much better.

I was sent home with a urine strainer and a specemin jar to catch the little stone when it came out.

The worst of my pain was over at this point. I took pain pills throughout the day and night and Friday but my pain was very managable! Now I was just waiting to pass the stone. This happened on Saturday morning around 11:30 a.m. It is a little stone...copper in color and about the size of a sunflower seed.

That is an experience that I hope I never have to go through again! I am glad that it is over. My back is still quite sore...but it is a pain that I can live with.

Women's Conference

I was able to attend Women's Conference at BYU again this year. Lisa came along with my mom and her friend Ann. It was fun and just what I needed!

A Southern Utah Adventure

Over Spring Break, Lisa, Avery and I went to St. George. My mom and Brad had recently purchased a house in LaVerkin and we decided to stay there. It was like camping in a house! We were the first guests to stay there. We slept on the floor and figured out how to make things in the house work. We were grateful to have a place to stay that wasn't a hotel!

We spent some time in the backyard...catching a few rays of sunshine. Avery even found a way to make a swimming pool out of a rubbermaid container. Wish I had a picture of that!

We went over to Zion National Park one day. It was fun to go there and hike for a while. We stopped by a little shop on the way home...if you have even been to Zion you have probably stopped there as well.

April 8, 2012

HAPPY EASTER!

What a wonderful time of the year this is that we get the change to focus on our Savior and His atoning sacrifice for us! In recent week and months I have come to a greater, deeper understanding of this amazing gift we have been given. Through His enduring love for each of us, we are given the opportunity to repent and be made whole. It is a continual, even daily process by which we are refined and changed to be the beings that God needs us to be. May you remember this day, and every day throughout the year that you are a child of God who loves you more than you may ever know and He is waiting patiently for you to come unto Him.