Whirlwind

Well last Monday was a holiday and Miah had an MRI scheduled for that evening, Tuesday began as any other, girls to camp, work for Miah and I, house work and so on and so forth. Wednesday Miah went to the spine Dr to get the results of the MRI, DR said surgery was needed right away to repair a blown disc in his back. GREAT! Surgery for our bread winner, I was in shock, awe. ETC. I cannot put into words that thoughts that went through my head. MIAH and SURGERY.... How was I going to manage, how was I going to take care of him AND all the rest I do daily, BACK surgery, Spins SURGERY!!! How was I going to help him walk, HELLO he is almost 300 pounds and I top @ 125!!!! How was I going to do it. PLUS like I said BREAD WINNER! How were we going to manage with no work for him for 2 weeks?? How ? I had told him when he first hurt his back that he should go get AFLAC or something similair, just in case we ever needed it. When you think of back surgery does it make you nervous? Then Miah told me that he could come home the night of surgery...LOL I thought, right. How was I going to "care" for him in the physical way. HA HA funny. Then I realized that he was serious. LOL ok sure. So Dr scheduled surgery for FRIDAY, yeah 2 days we had to prepare. In one way it was good that it was only 2 days. Only 2 days to worry and think on it all. BUT only 2 days to prepare to have him out of work for 2 weeks and home recooperating! So I moved into action, FIRST I called my aunt and cried. Got that out of the way. Asked Miah to talk to the HR department @ work to find out exactly how much time he had coming to him. Thank fully they said he had 40 hours and 3 personal days and the 26 th he is due for 2 more weeks of vacation acrueing. SO by the end of the month we will break even on the budget and still have 1 week of vacation put aside. PHEW! Then I made calls to the families that I babysit for and asked for Friday off, so I could be @ surgery. They were both wonderful to work with me and get me the day off. Grocery shop so we had an excess of food in the house, set up babysitters for my kids for Friday. Got Miah to mow the lawn on top of all the pre-surgical tests and such he had to do on Wednesday. SO as a conclusion: Wednesday morning we woke as any other Wednesday , but by 2 pm, we had spine surgery scheduled 2 days later and by 5 pm we had, phone calls made, schedules changed, babysitters found, by 7 pm we had a lawn mowed, house cleaned, and groceries shopped for! PHEW.
Needless to say there was no sleep for Miah and I on Wed. or Thursday! By Friday we were both exhausted! Surgery was scheduled for 9:30 AM. We arrived at the hospital after dropping the girls to camp and Chris to Amanda's (My NY BFF) house. I met the Dr for the first time, and talked to the anestheiologist. Miah got some meds to relax him, and he was a bit chatty. HE even asked his DR, " DO you think my wife is hot?" That put the good old Doc and I in a weird place!! By 11 am I said good bye to Miah and headed to meet my aunt in the lobby. She was wonderful to join me for the day, after finding out that I was going to be alone for the day. On a side note, I hate that my sisters live so far from me, times like these would be easier with them here with me. Anyhow, my mom met us in the lobby a short time later and we went to get some lunch, I had not eaten simply bc Miah could not eat and I felt that to be unfair for him. The Dr said the surgery should be 1-2.5 hours long. At 2:30, he came to tell us it was a bit worse than they had expected and we would see how Miah felt. That was IT, all he said to me in the waiting room! My mom left after knowing Miah was good, and my aunt stayed with me. By 3 they called me to tell me I could see him, my aunt left, and I went to see the patient! He was in and out of it bc of pain meds but in alot of pain! They already had him walk, drink and pee, which were the 3 things he had to do before leaving. By 5pm we were leaving, after making the nurse laugh, due to the fact that Miah and I have fun picking on each other and on others. Miah was trying to convince her that I beat him @ home. SO not funny, and luckily she for some reason did not believe him ;). LOL We headed to the pharmacy and to pick up dinner. My mom took the kids to the Golden Corral. We got home and settled before they arrived. Miah's dad came to visit him. The kids did great loving on Daddy when they got home. WHAT a day! I was so tired and over the whirlwind. ALL in ALL, ALL went well, Miah is safe and hopefully his back is fixed, the Lord was over the DR during surgery and prepared it all for us.
Now on to life with a new back.
I have changed bandages time and time again, and even vacuumed crumbs out of the chair and dressed my husband. Things I hoped I would not have to do for a long time! I have loved each and every moment of his time here at home, I miss him when he works, and he works way too much. I do appreciate it that he does work that much though. He takes care of his family. He is a hard worker and I could not ask for much more.
Any-who, it has been a long week and stressful too, but we are here and healthy, also we have healthy kids too! Thankful for the things we have and for the things we don't.