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.
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