March Madness! (and not of the basketball sort)

Got to CT safely Tuesday March 2. Spent a great half day with my man before he went off to school, Jeff got home and we were headed with 2 other friends who are also classmates of Jeff's to see an apartment. Jeff wasn't feeling to great but we went and saw the apartment and I got really excited. They are so cute and best of all the second we walked in I could immediately see us living there. I didn't get any pics of the actual apartment we looked at but we looked at 2 different floor plans that they offer. Both lofts, how fun is that?! One of them had a spiral staircase that led up to the loft that was adorable but I'm not sure entirely practical for those of us who need to potty in the night, the other had about 3ft more space and a straight staircase. They both have full brick walls that I am in love with, the down sides Jeff and I discussed was the bathroom placement, you have to come downstairs, through the living room, kitchen and closet to get there.. also not to great for the night pee'r but I'll make do. Ha You also can't have puppies, bummer. But that really is okay I guess, we will have plenty of responsibilities and leaving a puppy home alone all day would break both our hearts, so down the road. Anyway, I love these apartments, they are affordable and so unique from anything else I have seen. We are still looking but they are definitely on the top of our list.
Here is a picture of the loft with the straight staircase and brick wall.



I love the brick!

After our apartment showing we headed over to Jeff's school where he was going to study for a few hours for the test and 2 quizzes he had the next day. He was still complaining about the abdominal pain he was having and as the next hour passed I started to get really worried when he couldn't even make himself study; Jeff is a great student and studies under the most awful of circumstances so I think at this point we were both thinking it was definitely more than just stomach pain and gas. We decided to go home and see if sleep would be the key but didn't even make it out the door before my poor guy stopped at the restroom and threw up a couple of times. A few of his classmates came out to talk to him and try and diagnose him.. PA students are so funny. Every opportunity is a learning opportunity which is great I just wish they weren't having to practice on my baby.

We got him home and after about another half hour of worsening pain and throwing up I put my shoes and told him I was taking him in. He was reluctant of course and got his stethescope out to listen for bowel sounds and was reading a few of his school books trying to pin point what it could be but after a few minutes of this I gave him his coat and we headed for Saint Raphael's Hospital. We were the only ones in the waiting room and got in pretty quickly but being employed in the emergency room myself I of course was upset when they made us walk back and find our own room.. the labs were drawn a half hour after we got there.. I shouldn't complain because they did an excellent job and the staff was great but it's definitely hard going from the staff to having a loved one be a patient and in a new place. I was just worried. He was examined by the doctor and as soon as the doc pushed on his lower right abdomen he called it was Appendicitis. He told me as they rolled him away to ct scan he wanted it on the record he called it first. My funny guy, he's going to make an awesome PA someday!

Sure enough it was his appendix and they had him on the list for surgery, we weren't sure when but they came back and told us it would be first thing in the morning and they admitted him. I wasn't able to stay in the room with him that night because he had another roommate so I stayed in the OR waiting room and was able to see him before surgery the next morning. I kissed him goodbye and then sat and twiddled my thumbs for the next 3 hours waiting to see him again.

Waiting for a room upstairs...



Best Dang looking patient I have ever seen in the ED.

I couldn't believe how good he looked when they brought him back up to his room after surgery and he was makin' jokes within minutes of getting settled. He is so funny under the influence of drugs. Apparently someone had dared call me his girlfriend in the OR and he quickly corrected them. He also was doing impressions of himself in pain the night before including facials and noises. I was laughing uncontrollably! Oh he is a hoot. Every new nurse that came into the room knew that he was a first year PA student at QU, I am his fiancee and got into town only 24 hours before this all happened, etc. It was so cute, the staff was so good to him and very accomodating to me as well letting me stay with him after visiting hours. I was so appreciative of that. It was no IMC facility but I was very reassured by the awesome staff they had and they took very good care of my baby.

I left him wednesday night to go home and get some sleep and for him to be able to rest as well (neither of us had slept since we got to ER the night before) I felt like the worst fiancee' ever leaving him and may or may not have let my emotions get the best of me as I left him and went home alone.

Well, Jeff is making fun of me right this minute for the novel I am writing on our blog. So I will wrap it up. Picked up my man this morning and he is doing better, still a little sore and stiff from surgery but in much better spirits. I am doing my best to take the best care of him and we are both just very thankful for the timing and that I was able to be here with him. In the words of my mom, "It would have been ugly!" If I was stuck in Utah while this all went down. So maybe March is a lucky month, not lucky that my babe got appendicitis but if it had to happen the timing couldn't have been any better!

Happy Lucky March!