An Unusual Week

Well, it has been an unusual week. First, with the flooding and all, our area was in a national emergency area. Thus, the kids were out of school all week this last week. I hear they are going back tomorrow though. That was very unusual to have a week out of school in May only three weeks before school was to dismiss for the summer. The good news is that it looks like the week will be waived due to the emergency situation and graduation/school dismissal will go on as originally planned.

Second, on Tuesday night, Eric started passing a kidney stone. He's never had one before and didn't know what it was. As we were going to bed around midnight, he started to feel the pain. It was so intense he was lying on the floor nearly in a ball. I felt horrible for him. He hates going to the doctor, but after about 30 minutes of this, he got his shoes on and said it was time to go. We spent the remainder of the night in the ER, getting home about 8:30am the following morning. Most of the pain had finally passed before he left the hospital that morning. Poor guy...it was a long night!  He's still a little sore.

A couple of things that made that night even more eventful was the fact that we had 4 teenage boys spending the night at our house that night with Alex. (Fortunately they are good boys and were mostly all asleep before we left). And another interesting thing...Eric was on-call that night and Nighthawk (their overnight service) happened to be down so he had been reading the studies from the hospital up until he went in himself. The technicians were quite surprised when Eric showed up in Radiology to get a CT. Afterwards, he read his own CT. They were not able to get in contact with another radiologist to take his place until morning.

When we finally got home, we were ready to sleep, but there were things to be done for me. So Eric rested while I got the kids all situated. I did manage to get in a couple of hours before the day was done. While Eric and I were asleep, the girls decided they wanted to make Eric a cake. They were very worried about him. Here's how it turned out:

Jarem enjoyed helping frost the cake as you can see. :)

The remainder of the week we tried to recover.  The kids enjoyed having the week off school and took full advantage of playdates and sleepovers with friends.  After promising them the Science Center in Nashville all week, we were finally able to make it on Friday with one of their favorite families and they had an awesome time.  They were good, and I enjoyed having them home for the most part.  It was also nice to have a much less busy schedule with the activities involving school cut-out!