May is starting out with a bang!

Dave came down with the "flu" on May 1st! Well it appeared to be the flu. He felt generally like crap, hurt all over, did not feel like eating, ran a low grade temp, etc. I was in a stretch of 7 night on at the hospital so for Thursday, Friday and Saturday I would come home from work, get the girls up and dressed, feed them breakfast and play with them a little bit then wake Dave up about 10:30 am and let him watch them while I slept for a little while and then get up fix them dinner and get them ready for bed and me ready for work. Needless to say it was exhausting.

Monday, May 5th Dave was worse, (kinda looked like death warmed over) so I called his doctor and got him in to see the doctor. He did some lab work and sent us home said it looked like the flu. Well on Wednesday the doctor called and wanted to see Dave to follow up on the lab work. I took him in, the doctor ran some more tests and then ordered a CAT scan which could not be done until the next afternoon.

Thursday the 8th of May I took Dave in for his CAT scan and we ended up in the emergency room at the hospital. It was not the flu after all it was Dave's Gall Bladder and it had partially ruptured so Dave was admitted for IV antibiotics. The surgeon said it was to dangerous to operate at this point because he would likely end up septic and he wanted to give him IV antibiotics for anywhere from 2 days to a week in the hospital depending how he responded.

Fortunately for us the good Lord was looking over him! The surgeon was amazed that the doctor had even caught it because Dave did not even have classic symptoms! Besides that he said no one ever goes this far as it hurts to much so they always end up in ER sooner rather than later. The IV antibiotics did there job sooner than expected and Dave was discharged on Saturday the 10th just in time for the Mother Days Dinner our kids had made for me.