Stuff Happens

Well, I thought that the last blog was long! Thanksgiving Holidays ended with this.... When will Jeff ever learn not to make me mad???? Nah! Just kidding! As I was trying to decorate the front porch for Christmas on Sunday, Jeff comes to the front door and says, "Come help me please" and walks away. When I get to the bathroom, his face is COVERED in blood! I immediately panic, but he is walking and talking, so I calm down a little. I start cleaning his face and discover the source - a very nasty gash over his right eye. So, to the emergency room we go. When I had last seen Jeff, he was napping in the recliner. However, while I was hanging garland and lights, he decided to go put up a deer stand. Mr. Bein is not afraid of heights at all, so he thought nothing of climbing to the top to secure the stand with a chain even though the stand was not stable to the tree! So, he fell (probably 15 feet if I had to guess how tall those stands are) I am going to measure them this weekend! Aparently he fell on his face! We are so blessed that is was not any worse than it was. We spent a 3rd trip to the ER in a weeks time getting x-rays and stitches. Dr. Larkin was the lucky one on call. He is always so calm that it has a calming effect on me. Jeff is sore, but he walked out of those woods and home and that is what matters! Thank you, God, for protecting him when he wasn't looking out for himself!

So, I went back to work on Monday but was scheduled to have a colonoscopy and Upper GI as well on Tuesday. Of course, Will wakes up Tuesday running a 99.6 fever and isn't feeling well! My mother is an angel and kept him while Jeff and I went for my test/procedure. I must say it was an experience! The before and after definitely stink, but the stuff they put you to sleep with is really good! I survived they whole ordeal. There were two polyps and one was rather large. The doctor said it definitely would have turned into cancer in a few years! That is just scary. Now I have to do this every 3 years! So far in my quest to find out what the pain is I am having in my abdomen, I have found a dermoid cyst and had to have surgery to remove the right ovary and cyst, and now we have discovered polyps that had to be removed. The sad thing is that none of these things are causing the pain that I am having.... So, the wonderful doctor wanted me to have a CT scan of my abdomen. I did that today! Unfortunately you have to drink stuff that looks like and has the consistency of thin glue! Banana flavored glue! (It was better than the colonoscopy stuff - I ended up throwing half of it back up!) Anyway, no word on the abdomen scan. I'm just praying that they don't find another extra part that I need to have removed. I only just turned 40 and the falling apart starts already! On top of all of this Will was running fever and not feeling well at all. Mom really helped me out this time! Jeff was scheduled for the Cardiologist tests on Wednesday, so I have missed most of 3 days of school this week. I am ready for things to get back to normal. Neither of us know anything from any of our tests yet.

Will is feeling better now, but I did have him out in the weather for the parade! I know - STUPID!!! I bundled him up really good! I'm keeping my fingers crossed...

Some would say that when it rains it pours. I say: Thank you, God! Thank you for the doctors we have to help us. Thank you for saving us from danger. Thank you for causing us pain that leads us to discover things that could cause us more harm later on! Thank you for healthy children that get the sniffles every now and then, but have no other problems! Thank You from the bottom of my undeserving heart!