Sucha Sunday

Well yesterday was Father's Day and started out like must Sunday's should. After church and Sunday School, we went home and I tried calling my "little" bro, as it was his 54th birthday, boy is he getting old! Anyway I tried the two phone numbers that I had for them and one went right to a voice mail box and the other just kept ringing and ringing, so after letting it ring for over a minute, I just hung up.

I thought that I might try later, but I never got a chance to try. Kathleen chopped up some onion and mixed it with the "Mexican" rice and her salmon from last night and then heated it up. I added a little sour cream to it and it really was good.

Then I finished reading the paper and also collected, washed, dried, folded and put away the first load of laundry. John called about 1650 and said that we were to meet them at "Sweet Tomatoes" about 1730 for dinner with him, Andrea, Brandon and John's parents.

We arrived just before 1730 and John's parents arrived about ten minutes later, John, Andrea and Brandon were the last to arrive and when they did we all went inside and went through the line to gather our salads.

Kathleen started not feeling well and so we left as soon afterwards as we could. She had driven there and wanted me to drive home. Kathleen's pain was getting worse as we headed north so as we reached the exit that would take us close to our doctor's office, I asked her if she wanted me to get off and see if the office was still open. She said yes, so I did, I knew that the office hours were really short on Sunday, but I thought that I would give it a try.

The office had closed at 1500, so we were just a little late to see anyone. So then we called the office to get the on-call doctor. Kathleen told him her problem and he said that she could either go home and try to tough it out until morning or go to the emergency room.

Since the hospital emergency room was about a half mile away we thought that it would be better to stop there and have her checked out. We got to the hospital about 1900 and she finally got someone to take her into triage, and then to a room where they finished admitting her.

While in the room they gave her an IV with some pain killer and then just before we left they gave her some pain pills to take and a prescription for more, but we were too tired to drive out to Gresham, the closest 24 hour pharmacy.

About 2130 they sent her out for s CT scan and discovered kidney stones, the largest about 6mm and several others behind it. Long story short, we finally left about 2300 and I was really tired...hence no blog last night.

This morning we will have to go to see Doctor Winchester, the same doctor who did my surgery last June and whom she say many years ago for some other kidney stones.

This is not exactly how I had envisioned my Father's Day to turn out, but not totally unexpected either. Well, I am still tired as I did not get to bed until 0100 this morning as I had to take the second load of laundry out of the dryer and fold and put it away, and I was also too wound up to go to sleep before that.

When Kathleen gets up we will be getting an appointment to see the doctor this morning and will go from there.
I am sure that are not done with this episode yet so we will write more when we find out more. Hope to talk to you tonight.