ER Weekend

Our weekend started early with Stephen coming home from work sick on Wed. night. He was coughing and said his head was going to explode. Thursday he slept the day away. By early afternoon he had moved downstairs to sleep on the couch and was completely oblivious to 5 kids running and playing right around him. I first realized something was wrong when he rolled off the couch to the floor and didn't even wake up. He was completely checked out and couldn't stay awake. He'd slept for about 17 hours straight at this point. I decided to take him into quick care. We barely made it into the car-- I thought he was going to pass out walking to the car. After that, I was able to keep him in a wheelchair. Quickcare looked at him and did some blood tests and sent us over to the ER. They gave him an IV and ran more tests and sent us home for him to sleep more and said to come in Sat if he wasn't doing better. He has a high bilirubin level, which means his body is breaking down red blood cells. He also has a high white blood cell count, so there is probably some sort of infection as well. Luckily he is not in pain and was promised in a blessing that he will get well, we just don't know how long that will take. He has continued to sleep about 18 hours a day.

Saturday morning I woke up in major pain, and he ended up taking me to the ER with kidney stones. Kidney stones are the only time I've ever thrown up because of the pain. It feels like hard labor, only with labor you get a break between contractions and end up with something positive at the end that you can focus on. :) I'd take childbirth any day! I am feeling much better with the pain medicine, but just have to wait for them to pass. My mom came up and took the 4 younger boys back down to her house, so Stephen and I have just been able to sleep the day away. Hopefully this passes soon and we can figure out what is wrong with him and get back into life.

Oh, and both times at the ER, we had the same nurse. She was nice, but I really don't want to be on a first name basis with an ER nurse. What are the odds?