The Stapleton year in review.... 2009 SO FAR

January 1st: Preston wakes up feeling iffy and sick and then starts to puke and have lots of bathroom issues. His Dad came down as planned and we both convinced him to go to Urgent Care.... His Dad went with him and I stayed with the girls. ABout an hour later his Dad called and said they were taking him over to the ER because he had "classic gallbladder" symptons and he would likely be in surgery within a few hours. I met them over at the ER as Emy and Mom came to get the girls. They did a few tests and found very little. THey could not do the big stuff because is was a holiday,,,, no one was there.. GGRRR SO the said he had either gastroenteritis or pachreatitis. Sent him home with some meds and said to eat light.

January 5th: Preston went to work as I started to feel some pain in my side. I did not think much of it, but decided to call the OB (since it was in that area) and make an appointment. Preston was gone until 8pm because he started teaching a new class that night and he was exhausted.

January 6th: Went to the OB at 10:30 with Kaiya in hand. Mom watched Cass. I got in to the doctor and he did a urine sample. I assumed that it was to see if I had a UTI... he walked in a few minues later and said "Congratulations!".... "your pregnant!".... Before I could even figure out what my head was thinking all I got out of my mouth was.... "but I am on birth control?" He said, well, lets go see how far along you are... I walked down to to ultrasound room and went in, as soon as his start looking I could tell something was wrong... there was NOTHING in my uterus... and at about 5 or 6 weeks I know you can something! Then he looked into my right tube due to the pain and then we figured it out... I had an eptopic pregnancy. One big shot of Methatrexate (a chemo drug used to shrink tumors) and Phenergan and three Ultrasounds later I was off to get Cass with anti-nauseua drug in hand. Preston came home from work that night stll feeling lousy and the two of us curled up on the couch together and feel alseep almost immediately after putting the girls to bed.... I think it was 9pm. I was scheduled to see him again on Friday.

Januray 8th: Kaiya had her follow up eye appointment which is always stressful. My Mom and Cass came with this time just in case I had any issues with the meds I was on. We were there for 1 hour and 35 minutes. We did discover her vision had improved!! Not a ton.... but there was progress! So we left happy, but I was starting to feel miserable because of the meds I was one. I then got a call from Preston that he had decided to go see his regular doctor the next day because he was still feeling lousy. His appontment was at 2pm, mine was at 10:30am the next day. We feel asleep on the couch once again very early, together.

January 9th: I got up and took both girls over to Moms so I could go to the OB alone this time since Kaiya seemed freked out last time becuase I was so all over the place and confused. I got there and they immediately did another ultrasound... they were pleased wit the "shrinking" and decided I needed another dose of Methatrexate - YUCK! But this time it was a smaller dose. So I thought that was good news. I went back to Moms and could not keep my eyes open so Mom sent me upstairs for a nap. I was asleep in less then a minute. Next thing I know, Em comes running into the room with her cell phone saying Preston was trying to reach me and he needed to talk to me now! I got on the phone and he imformed me that he was in an ambulence on the way to the Hospital again. I was so upset, I jumped out of bed and threw my clothes on... the weather was terrible and I was nervous about driving to the hospital, it is about 10 minutes from my Mom's. I got there in one peice and finally found Preston getting settled into a room. He had an IV going already. After a quick exam they loaded him up with anti nausea meds, Big pain meds and pepcid via IV to try and hep settle his stomach, he had been vomiting everywhere at the doctors appointment and could not even stand up from the pain in his stomach as they were trying to give him a CT in the lab in the building... that was when his doctor called the rescue squad.

All the meds did great getting him comfortable and this time we were very hopeful that we were going to at least get some answers and get him fixed, not like on the 1st. They did an ultrasound and a CT scan. They found very little. His labs came back odd thought. His white count was "significantly elevated" from his last visit. SO we knew SOMETHING was happening his poor body. So after all was said and done (about 6 hours later) they told us they were thinking about keeping him just for pain control. After we discussed the findings .... we discovered that he needed two more tests.... that they DID NOT do in the ER and would not even be available until Monday. It sucked. We still did not have answers and were heading home again. Our only hope is that we can get him in to the doctor do do the tests as soon as possible, but we cannot call until Monday. When we got the girls and got home it was about 9pm and then after they went to bed I went to the 24 hour pharmacy to fill all of his prescrptions (since they were calling for a severe winter storm the next day, that did not happen)... but I got them all to have in the house just in case. I got home at 10:30pm, he was out cold because of all the meds he was given in the ER and I just dropped next to him, we both slept all night on the couch and never made it to our bed.

He will need a Hytascan (sp?) as well as an endoscopy. Both are condsidered outpatient procdures but both are pretty uncomfortable and invasive:( So he are hoping to get some answers from these tests... becuase he is still not feeling well, and he is on tons of meds, which he hates.

Soooo here we are today (January 11th): I am feeling better after vomiting a few times from the Methatrexate yesterday and I have almost no pani any more which is a great sign. I am watching Preston like a hawk because his "episodes" for lack of a better term come on quick and knock him on his butt fast.

Thank you all for your kind words, emails, calls and the prayers we have coming our way. It has been a warm feeling being surrounded by all of this through this crazy few days.

Special thanks to Em for keeping everyone posted and even though she has npot been feeling great, dropping anything to help us. She is a God send and has made all of this a tad bit easier. Alsp thanks to my Mo Mo for all the offers to help and coming over and hanging out with me yesterday which was just what I needed. Love you darlin!!

I think that is it!! After this week I am praying for NO MORE DRAMA for the remained of 2009..... even though it has just begun:P