Mayo Clinic

Hope everyone is doing well....sorry it has been so long once again since we last blogged; however Liz decided that she was going to have surgery in an URGENT fashion. Needless to say we have become well acquainted with Mayo real quick. So August 8th...a wonderful Friday night Liz ended up in the ER here in Albert Lea due to upper right abdominal pain which is where your gallbladder is, running 102 fever and lots of other crap going on. So they did the usual ran lots of tests the normal CT scan and blood and 8 hours later diagnosed Liz with are you ready for this......the STOMACH FLU! Absolutely crazy! The doctors told us that all of her labs were normal and that the CT scan was normal as well so we got sent home. However none of this went away so Tuesday morning Liz got an appointment early that morning and saw her family doctor who ran LOTS of tests and looked at lab results from ER and found that everything was NOT ok at all. Liz's liver enzymes were severely elevated and the CT scan was not the right test to perform so we ended up wasting lots of money that night. So that morning (Tues) she had labs drawn again and an ultrasound. Well nothing came back normal so to make sure of what he was seeing, he ordered a Hida scan which blatantly displayed an ABNORMAL gallbladder so it was Tuesday evening when we got all these results back and were told to get to Rochester you are very sick and indeed she was, and knew but could not get the ER here to understand that simple little point. So we ended up at St. Mary's at Mayo and got put in the critical care wing and had surgery consult that night! However there were absolutely no operating rooms available that night or Wednesday so despite liz being crazy sick she had to wait until Thursday afternoon to go to the OR where once they were inside took a little bit of time to remove the wonderful organ. So in the end Liz had her gallbladder taken out and was released Saturday afternoon. Needless to say any badluck that could have come our way in particular towards Liz it has this summer. Poor girl. However we manage to hold our heads high and move on.

One good thing about Liz having this operation and being so sick is that her mom was able to come up Saturday and pick her up from the hospital and bring her back home to Albert Lea. So her mom got to see the house and stay with us overnight and relax.

So no lifting anything over 10 pounds for 2 weeks and not a lot of stair walking is encouraged so I believe Liz will be resting on the couch right up until school starts and even that first week of school since school starts the 26th~

Hormel is doing well even though Hans was not there for a week. Trying to catch up on paperwork and payroll due to being gone at the hospital with Liz.

Not much else to report, just tryin to get settled into a routine before classes stsart.

Take Care everyone