As we were getting ready to leave Mom and Dad's Tuesday morning, Levi started feeling sick. Mom knew something was seriously wrong with him when he barely ate a couple bites of breakfast, and then lay face down on the carpet while I finished getting my things together. Not at all like his usual perpetually hungry, chipper self.
We made it 10 miles down the freeway before we had to pull over and vomit the first time. Not a good sign. We started booking it to Cheyenne because the pain in Levi's stomach was getting worse, and he recognized what it was. As we ran into the Cheyenne ER and Levi started swearing at the nurses to cut the dang thing out this time, I'm sure they were concerned that he was dilusional.
(A side story here. Levi was already doped up pretty good on morphine by the time the admissions lady came in to get our detailed info. She asked who his doctor was and Levi yelled out "HOULIHAN!" She looked confused at the nurse and said, "Who's his doctor?" Levi again answered her and said, "Well, maybe that's not her name. I dunno. Some WOMAN doctor though. That's the name of that woman doctor on M.A.S.H...." She was highly offended, I was mortified, and Levi barely remembers it at all.)
In contrast to our last adventure with this organ where we were in the ER for 5 bloody hours, they did a CT scan within 25 minutes, and we were on our way up to surgery in another 20 minutes. I'm SO thankful we were still close enough to Sidney that my parents were able to come. They calmed my nerves considerably, and had the Elders come so that they could give Levi a blessing when he got out of surgery.
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Dad gave him a blessing, and my parents stayed with us the rest of the afternoon. Levi was a lot quieter this time and didn't make as many joke with the nurses (although he did call his night nurse Houlihan too. *sigh*) It was a rough night full of vicodin, percoset, and machines beeping nonstop, but the next day they told Levi they would let him go home.
After being delayed a full three hours past when they said we would be discharged, we made it into the truck and set off on our 7 hour journey. Thankfully Levi still had the heavy hospital drugs in him, so he slept most of the way to Rock Springs, where Colton and Brandie had hot soup ready for us. We are so thankful for them!!
I was sorely tempted to stay in R.S. and travel the rest of the way the next day, but Levi was dying to sleep in his own bed and so we trudged on. We made it home late Wednesday night, and woke up early to a text announcing the arrival of a new M7 niece - Cami and Dustin finally got to meet their baby girl, Hadli Mae.
I was so worried that Cami was going to have the baby while we were gone and we would miss her first day of life! Thanks for waiting for us, Cami :D
After a week that seemed like bad news on top of more bad news, Hadli was the ray of sunshine we needed. Ü
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