Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Emily was scheduled for surgery at 7:00 a.m. this morning at the health center in St. Charles.  After having spend the last 2 days with her and not sleeping well since Saturday, I decided I wasn't going in unless I just happened to wake up and could make it on time.  Well...of course I woke at 4:30 a.m.  GO FIGURE!  I sent her a little text which took me forever to send because I was deleriously tired and my fingers were not working and said good luck and I am going back to sleep.  You know what they say about best laid plans...going back to sleep was not in the cards so I went ahead and headed to the hospital.  I got there just in time to find out that she had a "light" positive pregnancy test there and they were going to do bloodwork just to confirm.

THEY ARE DEFINITELY PREGNANT!!!!

The anesthesiologist told her he was going to have to do a spinal block since that was the only safe way to do surgery at this point.  This was a sense of relief, but also made her a bit anxious and nervous.  He made it sound like it was a piece of cake, but that didn't really comfort her.

They took her to surgery and Micah and I headed to the waiting area.  He left to go to Plaza as he had left his wallet there.  I guess it was a relief knowing I was there should something come up.  Knowing Em was anxious and nervous made me the same way and what do I do when I am like that, well...I call my mom.  I told her they had taken her back and that she was anxious and nervous.  She asked why that was and I just very non-chalantly told her that well she was getting a spinal block.  Of couse she asked why that and out it came...well she had a positive pregnancy test and they did bloodwork to make sure and the only safe way was a block...oh "S-word".  I wasn't supposed to tell her, they wanted to.  I FEEL TERRIBLE!!!  She is excited but I had to swear her to secrecy.  I didn't want to tell her, and it wasn't even fun doing it.  It was all so clinical and sterile, not fun and happy and surprisey.  What a BUMMER!!!  I told Micah as soon as he got back and he took the news like a trouper.

Em came out of surgery with flying colors.  She has a long plate and 7 new screws in her ankle along with the original screw that was put in place.  The doc was unable to remove it.  I had to tell Em I told her granny about the baby.  Oh how I hated to do that.  She wasn't happy, just a bit disappointed.  Oh well...again life doesn't always go as planned.

I realize as I type this that we have so very much to be thankful for.  We are so blessed.  Emily has been put back together.  Surgery went well, and we are going to have an addition to our family.  Life is some kind of wonderful even as it throws those curves our way.