2 ER trips in less then a week!

Lucas had his first trip (I'm sure there will be many) trips to the ER. We would have gone to the after hours clinic at our doctors but they were already booked up for the night so they sent us to the ER. Anyways, what happened is Lucas grabbed my flat iron and burnt his hand. I felt so bad, he screamed for an hour straight. Burns are the worst, I can't imagine how bad that must have hurt- Poor guy. They wrapped his hand up and then he was fine. He had to wear a wrap around his hand for 3 days with us changing the bandages twice daily. Lucas did very well with having his hand wrapped. He acted like it didn't bother him at all. It's almost been 2 weeks now and Lucas' hand is healing just fine.

His club hand for 3 days.

Waiting at the doctors to get the hand checked.

All the blisters. The blisters ever got bigger then that.

I had to go to the ER for the second time the same week. Last Tuesday I started getting a stomach ache at like 11 o' clock. Colt and I were doing our normal switch, me coming home from work and him leaving to school. I gave him a hug goodbye and that kinda hurt my stomach a little but I didn't think anything of it. As the day went on and I was doing my normal things, the pain just got worse. It kinda felt like heartburn but in my stomach. That's the best way I can describe it. The pain just kept getting worse. Finally I put a movie on for Lucas so I could lie down. I was just waiting for Lucas' nap time so I could go to bed, finally I put him to bed 30 minutes early because I couldn't take it any longer. By this time it was 1:30 and I was in such horrible pain I was trying to do anything to relieve my agony. I called my doctor to see if they could see me today and they said "why don't you wait a couple days to see if the pain goes away" I said "um no, but thanks for your help". I knew Colt still had at least an hour before he would be home from school, which seems like forever when you're writhing in pain. I called my mom to see if she would stay with Lucas while we go to the insta-care. At 3 o' clock when Colt got home from school and my mom made it to our place was when we finally started to head to the insta-care. By then the pain had started going down my right side and still was horrible. Anyways they decided that it could either be a kidney stone or appendicitis, but to make sure I had to get a CT scan. So we headed to the hospital to get the CT scan and about 2 hours later they confirmed it was appendicitis which meant emergency surgery. From there they sent us across the hospital to the ER to get everything set up and ready for surgery (not to mention we get to pay another ER fee). They gave me some good pain killers and the next thing I knew I was off to surgery in less than an hour from when we arrived in the emergency department. Surgery went fine other than they had a hard time getting me to stop bleeding. They tell me to make sure if I ever have more surgeries to make sure I tell the doctors that I'm a "bleeder" and that I may have a mild bleeding disorder. I stayed over night at the hospital so I could be monitored and by 3 I was on my way home. The recovery is going fine. I feel pretty much back to normal except I have 2 more weeks until I can pick Lucas up again. I don't think that will be possible but I am trying to be careful.

Hopefully no more trips to the ER for a long time!

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