chapter summary...

Let's see, I don't know what to write. I have so much to write because I haven't done this in so long, that I don't know where to start.

For those of you that didn't know I spent the first few weeks of this summer in the hospital (the stay was long, the drugs were good). I had a gallbladder that was giving me a little too much trouble, so I had it removed, because that is how I handle trouble(My kids should beware).

I think it was all harder on my husband than it was for me, because he was left trying to find people to watch all of our kids (sometimes driving to San Diego to pick up babysitters), going to work, and of course visiting me. I should mention that I went in on Father's Day. The man is brilliant though, he thought to bring me in a universal remote to operate the hospital TV so that I didn't have to go through every channel one at a time.

As horrible as being in the hospital was (and the first hospital that I was in was truly horrible) I had a roommate there named Pat that was great and hilarious, and talked about food constantly, which kind of sucked because I wasn't even allowed to have water, but I loved listening to her complain because she did it so entertainingly.

At the second hospital everyone was very on top of things and the care was good. I also had a night nurse who would bring me Popsicles and hang out in my room to watch TV while she did her charts, and her assistant who would prop his feet up with my sports page and argue with me about the Raiders and Chargers ( I still don't get how decent people can like the Raiders, but that is another post).

The best part of the whole experience was probably my dad. My mom left town the day I went in and he made sure that I was taken care of every step of the way, whether it was bringing me the paper in the morning, dealing with the doctors, or sitting around reading a book while I slept, he was just generally terrific.

Didn't really mean this to be a blog about the hospital, but oh well, it is what it is. I was hoping it would have been a little bit more like an episode of Scrubs, but it's the only story I've got. So, thank you to all that visited, called, helped with my kids, and everything else, you never really know how many people are in your corner until you're backed into it a bit.


PS- Jess that story I will was telling you about will be blogged on soon.