Sunday, April 22, 2007

Marnie's Big Surgery

Marnie started feeling poorly during the week of April 9th. It was strange in that she didn't want to eat, said that her stomach hurt, and had a low-grade fever. Nothing really got better or worse until Sunday. She laid her head in my lap during sacrament meeting and her head was really hot.

On Monday I had a long-term customer coming up from California to meet me and drop off more quilts, so I told her I would take her to the doctor right afterwards. Paul and I went together with her to the Island doctor. We were there for 10 minutes before the doctor announced that her appendix had probably burst and that we should go to the hospital immediately.

We arrived about 4pm and had to wait until midnight before they wheeled her into surgery. The doctor said everything went well, but that they had used gallons of saline to help rid her insides of all the poison.

I cleared my calendar pretty easily and just lived in her recovery room for a week. We had a great number of visits from the ward, from Elger Bay Elementary, and from her siblings. She was loved with stuffed animals and things she couldn't eat.


Thursday, April 12, 2007

Frazier Concert

 Frazier is performing again at Stanwood Middle School and we are there to enjoy it. He is a natural musician and has tried the bass clarinet for fun. It's not very fun, though, just bass lines.

Saturday, April 7, 2007

Easter 2007

 We can't believe how lucky we've been with Easter weather with the last few years. I love buying candy and filling eggs, so there are even more now.