What we've been up to.......

So I haven't posted anything in a while, but for good reason! As of tomorrow I will be 3 weeks post op! Doctors were able to clip one of (the largest) aneurysm successfully! Unfortuanetly the smaller one couldn't be clipped and will have to just be monitored via angeograms and MRIs until they can either clip it or fill it with the platinum coils. Oh well! I was very bummed upon waking up and finding that out, but doctors informed me that this should in no way impede my abilities to naturally deliver babies in the future and that more pregnancies are safe! That alone answers my prayers!

It was such a strange experience! Went in early in the morning on January 28, 2014 and waited, did all the IVs and vitals and all that fun stuff and Kev and I just sat an waited..... so nerve wracking! I was terrified I was going to die so I wrote Kevin and all you kiddos cards just in case! Now that I didn't need them I put them away and will give them to you at some point I am sure!

We laughed and made jokes up until the moment they wheeled me away! Heck I think we were joking around with the anesthesiologist as they wheeled me away! I am a firm believer in laughing to avoid crying and/or stress! I don't know why I thought washing and straightening my hair pre-op would be worth it! My hair was so full of gunk and I couldn't wash it for a while anyway and I looked great :(

8 hours and 68 staples later I was out. Unfortunately during recovery I ended up contracting an eye infection and my eyes swelled up so huge I couldn't open them for 3 days...... The meds made me extremely nauseous and vomiting with staples and a shunt in your skull =NO FUN!

 

I thought a lot about the crowning of thorns during this whole ordeal and I think from now on that mystery of the rosary will hold a special place in my heart! Also I know so many women say that child birth is the worst pain in the whole world....... I have now experience that and this and I disagree! I would naturally deliver a dozen babies med free rather than do this again! A LOT of pain and no sweet baby to go home with......... No thanks!

 

I remained in the hospital for 9 days due to the infection and my heart ached for my sweet babies who weren't able to visit at all!

 

I continued to look so great :/

 

Rocking that double chin woo woo!(I was swollen I promise I am not that chubby!) Thanks for taking all of these super flattering pictures Kevin!

I am glad we have some pictures though to look back on and remember this all. Finally the docs came in and said if I felt up to it, the infection was under control, and I could try and go home! I have never been happier! I was so so happy to have my babies in my arms again! To be back in my own bed! To have no more IVs and midnight heparin shots! To not hear other patients and machines beeping all night long! Especially because one of the side effects of all this is that I have a super heightened sensitivity to sounds/light/ and smells...... not a good thing to have while in a hospital! Unfortunately the day we got home, everyone decided to get the stomach flu.... barf everywhere! All three babies, myself, and a nauseous dad & grandmother.... Let me tell you, barfing with staples in your head is a whole new unpleasant experience! A few days after getting home the unit upstairs sprung a leak and flooded our closet.... all my closed drenched and a hole in the drywall.... so Here we are a week after brain surgery, throwing up everywhere and Daddy is ripping carpet out because I am stressing about mold.... When it rains it pours I guess! Despite all that, healing with you guys around is so much more pleasant (barf and all) and your love and cuddles and kisses really help speed things along! I want to be better FOR YOU! You guys keep me focused on getting back to normal!

Still couldn't open my right eye.... Timmy didn't mind

mmhmm so cute :/

Love & smiles make everything better!

Georgie you are so sweet. You always ask about my "owies" and insist on kissing me tons in order to make the owies better! Such a sweet little guy you are!

What it all boils down to is our help! We could NOT have made it through all this without the over abundance of help, genrousity, selflessness, and love we have been shown this last month! Grandmother stayed with us for 3 weeks and because of her Daddy was able to stay in the hospital with me the whole time so I didn't have to be alone! Grandma came over a ton to help. Aunt Janet and Bridget were contantly on call and kept babies busy and loved! Also our friends set up dinners for over a month! We got beautiful cards and flowers and it really was just so beautiful all the love and kindness!! SO ridiculously blessed!

dog with a deathwish

Aunt Erin and fam came from AZ to visit!

If I do a super to the side part I can actually hide my big bald stripe pretty well! So glad doc decided not to completely shave the right side of my head!

 

I still do not feel 100%, the nausea and migraines are still frequent, but I am so glad to be home, so glad to be working past all this, and so glad to be alive and with my family!!! Thank you Jesus for helping us pull through and for surrounding us with so much love and support! I continue to surrender myself to you as we make it through the rest of this! Help me remember to offer up the aches and pains so they don't go to waste! I am so blessed and I hope I don't lose sight of the perspective I have right now!

Love,

Mama