Fireworks and ER visits...Happy 4th of July!

What a wonderful weekend to have 4 whole days off work! The sunshine and hot weather has returned and plenty of family parties to attend. I was almost starting to wonder why we bought new bathing suits. It felt great hitting the pool and cooling off with some wet fun!

The only thing we didn't plan on was a trip to ER Friday night for me. I started having intense pain across my upper stomach, chest and back. Then all the muscles in these areas started to constrict, not relaxing and making it extremely hard for me to breathe. If that wasn't enough I was throwing up every 10 minutes too. At the ER, the doctor determined it was my gall bladder and that I had gall stones. They had to give me two strong doses of pain meds to finally get things feeling back to normal. I go to the doc tomorrow and he will order an ultrasound to determine the next step. It could be anything from medicine to help when my gall bladder becomes inflamed to surgery to remove it. You don't pass gall stones like kidney stones, they stay with you forever. The only way to take them out is to remove the gall bladder. They say having a gall bladder attack like this is the closest you will ever come to knowing what a heart attack feels like...I think they are right and hope to never expereience it again!!!

At the same time, we have had a sick puppy who is struggling with eating and fighting a common parasite for puppies. We are hoping her medicine will start working and that she will regain her appetite. Today, she is finally starting to look like an energetic puppy!

Thank goodness I was feeling better the next morning and we were able to celebrate the 4th of July with the Ossege family and see the fireworks at the Fort.

We bought a BIG load of fireworks to bring to the Grothaus celebration, the kids can't wait to watch them! We went to the Ft. Thomas Parade at the top of our street this morning. Could we just get one year without rain of on the 4th???

I will post pics from the Grothaus celebrations tomorrow; time to go enjoy family and fireworks!