Hospital

We had a crazy week this week.  Chad started getting sick last week but we just assumed it was the flu that we had all had.  I told him to rest for a day, and he should be feeling better in a couple of days.  He kept getting worse.  So on Saturday he went to the quick care and was diagnosed with strep and was given IV fluids because he was so dehydrated from not being able to keep anything down.  He came home, and we thought he was on the mend.  Then on Sunday night he started throwing up again and was in so much pain.  Once he threw up blood it was off to the emergency room for us.  Once there we never anticipated getting to stay for 3 days.  Chads blood work showed that his kidneys weren't functioning well.  Apparently sometimes when you get that sick the first thing to stop working are your kidneys.  He was given morphine for the pain, and IV fluids for 3 days.  It was terrible timing since he was on the tail end of this semester, but his professors have all been very nice about the whole thing.  They are working with him so hopefully all his work won't be for nothing.

He is still not feeling 100 percent.  We will find out tomorrow if his blood work is coming back more normal, and his kidneys are working better.  Hopefully he is on the mend because I don't want to go back to the hospital (at least until I have surgery).  Thank you to everyone who helped.  Chad's mom had the 3 youngest and my friends helped me with Claire.  We appreciate all the support, phone calls, and dinners.  I thought it would be easy once he was home, but there was extra work.  It is a blessing to have such a wonderful ward and great friends.