is someone missing an appendix?

As Matthew is lying on the couch holding his stomach, I think about the whirlwind this past weekend was for us. It all started Friday morning...although, in my defense, I didn't know anything about it then. Matthew started having back pain Friday morning and then stomach and right-sided pain Friday afternoon and evening. When he got home from the farm at 9 pm, he was in quite a bit of pain. He said that he didn't want to go in to Urgent Care but that I should make him an appointment to see the doctor on Monday. We went to bed...or I went to bed. Matthew ended up staying on the couch all night not sleeping. At 6 o'clock he woke me up and said that he had to go in to Urgent Care. He was trying to make it to 7 o'clock when Finn wakes up, but the pain was just too bad. I called Matthew's mom, Darlene, and she came to stay with Finn while we went to Urgent Care. When we got there, he was rushed through some tests and CT scans which in the end all confirmed an appendicitis. The nurses said that the tests would take a couple of hours so I should just go home or run some errands. I ended up going home to get Finn ready to stay at Grandma's house for the day. Here he is with his bag ready to go.


Sitting patiently by the back door.


This is what I found when I got back to the Urgent Care. This is the only picture Matthew would let me take before he went in for his appendectomy. He kept saying that he was probably going to come out of the operation missing his right leg.


Here is Matthew after his surgery...when he still didn't feel any pain and didn't really care that I took this picture. =) At this point when we were talking about the operation, he stopped in the conversation and said, "I miss my appendix".


Sunday morning in the hospital...after a horrible Saturday afternoon and evening trying to find pain meds that would work.


Finn came to visit Daddy Sunday morning. You should have seen the looks on their faces when they saw each other. Of course Finn was in awe of all of the hospital stuff, but when he saw Daddy, his face lit up!


Finn was fascinated with the cords and tried to call the nurses more than a few times. They didn't mind though. Most of them were the same nurses that assisted in his delivery almost a year ago.


My boys all tuckered out waiting to go home.


This is a video that we made for Daddy Saturday night. The wiggling in the video is Finn's dancing. Darlene spent the night at our house Saturday night while I spent the night in the hospital with Matthew. When I went back to the hospital that night, I showed Matthew the videos that we had made for him.