What can I say...it's just not our month

Well our lives have been very interesting over the last month or so. The Sunday Katie came home from the hospital I got a blood clot in my leg and went to the hospital. Luckily it turned out to be a superficial clot so it won't move anywhere. We stayed with my mom till Friday that week while I kept my leg up. The next week was fairly calm at home but that next Sunday night I started having horrible abdominal pain and ended up back in the ER. We were there all night long and ended up having x-rays, ultrasound, and a CT scan. They told me that they thought I had a cyst on my colon. We had to take Katie back to Salt Lake for her checkup that next day so I decided to get some pain medicine and make an appointment to see the surgeon later that week. We went to Salt Lake with Katie and her appointment went great! They took her off of her oxygen and said they were happy with how her heart looked, we still need to watch her close for changes but they were very happy with how she was doing. While down in Utah, I was still in a lot of pain, and I just didn't feel right about the diagnosis they had given me, so I made an appointment to see another surgeon in Idaho Falls for a second opinion. By the time that we got back to Idaho to pick up the kids from my parents I was in horrible pain and I could not wait another minute to get help. We called the surgeon in IF and told him what was going on and he said he would meet us at the ER at EIRMC as soon as we got there. They reviewed my CT scan and they were very puzzled but felt the original diagnosis was probably not the case, but I definitely had some kind of mass in my abdomen that needed surgery. They took me in to surgery immediately and ended up with an incision from the sternum to below the belly button. It turns out I had a very rare diagnosis; Intussuseption of the bowel. I had a growth on my appendix that was the size of a hot dog and then my large intestine had grabbed a hold of it and started pulling it upside to digest it, which continued and I had half of my large intestine inside of itself and some of my small intestine. the tissue of most of the large intestine was damaged and they ended up removing my appendix, the growth, and about 18 inches of my large intestine. I stayed in the hospital for 5 days after that. So we are staying at my mom's again while I am trying to recover from having a baby and abdominal surgery. Greg wanted me to put a picture of the staples on here but I wouldn't go for that. I am so thankful to have my family so close to help me I do not know what I would have done without them. Poor Austin has really had a hard time, and now I can't lift him for six weeks. We are hoping this is the end of a very long streak of craziness. I am looking forward to just staying home and hugging my kids for a while.