Sick, Sick, Sick.... And Sick Of It.

It all started on March 26th.

A slight cramp on my right side.

Period pains, I thought.

March 29th and 30th - 

I stayed curled in a ball crying.

March 31st -

Arived at the hospital.

After 6 tries, I have an IV.

Drugged.

Drank dye.

Had dye shot in my IV.

Drugged again.

4 hours later, just as I drifted to sleep,

the doctor came in.

"We can't find anything wrong.

We are going to send you home.

Come back if it gets worse."

They give me a shot and wheel me into the waiting room.

March 31st and April 1st -

Pain is still there.

I eat a few spoons of white rice.

Can't keep it down.

Try dry toast.

Ahhhh! It stays down.

Spoke too soon. Oops.

April 2nd and 3rd -

Little Man has baseball games.

I have never missed a game

except when I had H1N1.

I go.

Drugged.

Pain pills were my BFF.

Make plans for Monkey to stay with SIL.

April 4th -

Back to hospital.

Differant one.

More tests.

X-Rays.

2nd CT Scan.

More pain meds.

2 types of ultrasound.

Doctor comes in.

"We found the problem.

We don't know how they missed it.

Your completley full."

FULL OF SHIT.

"You have a kink in your colon."

"We can treat this."

"You will need to drink this stuff."

"You have a desision to make."

"Surgery and a poop bag for 6 months,

or laxatives for the rest of your life."

Guess what I picked.

I'll give you a clue........

I'm NEVER going to have a poop bag!

So, folks, as we all knew,

Just Jen is full of shit!

And now, I have a cold.

Jen! Where have you been???

Hey y'all! I have missed you!

I know I haven't been around in, gosh, over a month, but I can explain!!

(Really I can!)

If you follow me on Twitter, which you SHOULD be,

www.twitter.com/justjen68 *cough cough*

 you already know this,

but for you anti-twitter peeps, I'll tell you now.

3 weeks ago, my FIL was in a serious accident at work.

He was in a cage attached to a fork lift

THAT DIDN'T HAVE THE PINS IN,

and was dumped 30 feet onto concrete.

The man called me at work at 9am (right after I walked in the door)

and said "I'm on the way to the hospital. It's bad. Leave work now!"

And hung up.

Needless to say, I FLIPPED.

I didn't know what was going on, if HE was hurt,

if Little Man was hurt

or

if Monkey was hurt.

I work about 45 minutes from the hospital

(well, if you go the speed limit)

and I made it there in 15.

I got to the hospital, and they made me sit in the waiting room

 for 15 minutes before they brought me back to where

The Man and his sister were waiting.

Nana, her brother, and The Man's brother

showed up about 10 minutes later.

45 minutes later, a doctor came out and said we

could see him. 2 at a time.

I went last since they are his blood family.

It was awful.

He was covered in blood,

and his left eye was buldging.

He went into surgery 20 minutes later.

9.5 hours later, he came out.

He broke his left pelvic bone in two places,

his left wrist,

had 3 fractures in his skull,

and completley shattered the left side of his face.

Hie eye orbit, the bones around your eye

were in, what the doctor said,

a million pieces.

One of those bones was pressing

against the back of

his eye, pushing it out.

They put 2 bars in and wrapped wire around his pelvic bone,

put a splint on his wrist,

(The swelling was too bad for a cast.)

Removed the bone pieces from his skull,

and rebuilt his face.

They had to cut his head from tragus to tragus.

(Ear to ear.)

He was in ICU for 3 days and them moved to the Orthopedic floor

for another 4 days.

They sent him home one week after the accident.

Now, 3 weeks in, he is walking with a walker, can shower by himself,

jokes with us, smiles, and praises God for saving his life.

His left eye, which he couldn't

open at all in the hospital,

is slowly opening more each day.

The doctors think he will make an almost

FULL recovery!

This man has been more of a father to me, in 5 years,

then my father has been to me my whole like.

So that, my blogging buddies, is where I have been.

To everyone who has been praying,

please don't stop.

It's going to be a long road ahead of us,

but I know he will be ok!!