At the Seattle Aquarium yesterday touching the sea stars and urchins. We had a really fun weekend with Chad's family who came up for Chad's birthday. They got hotel rooms Friday night, so we had a really fun New Year's Eve party with yummy food and a little swimming. The boys had lots of fun. Before the hotel we ate dinner here at the RM house, and they had karaoke. Mitch loves "Mama Mia" by ABBA, so he and I sang that together. It was cute.
Saturday we went to the aquarium as I said, and the boys loved it. Mitch practically popped out of the stroller ready to walk, and did a great job walking around a little with help. He even went up and down a couple steps!
We came back for Chad's bday party, and after mixing the cake, Mitch said his tummy hurt, which he said earlier that week when we thought he maybe passed some kidney stones. After a few hours of increasingly intense pain (oxycotin wouldn't help), we took him to the ER. He vomited everywhere from the pain and looked terrible. His voice was shaky and despite his best efforts he was miserable. After some morphine, fluids, and urine that had white chunks in it, he felt better. We thought he passed the stones, but they did more ultrasounds today that showed a couple large stones (approximately 1cm in diameter) and that he had a lot of debris that was probably passing. They planned to put stents in Tuesday, but to avoid further pain and blockage they put them in today. He's on potassium citrate, which will hopefully dissolve them, and if not they'll laser them in a couple weeks. We had to put the stents in to avoid infection from build up. He walked from his bathroom to his bed at the hospital today holding onto his IV pole and very light support from me on his left side! We get the sacrament brought to us at the hospital, and today when they came, Mitchell went to grab a piece and Chad quickly reminded him, "Mitch, we can't eat until after we see the drs." Mitchell just smiled and pulled his hand back, folded his arms and sat reverently. He's such an angel.
Jackson left today to return to school. We'll miss him, but feel better knowing he's back in a routine instead of cramped up here all day. Mitchell has already said, "Let's go get Jackson."
The Merrells are still in the hospital. Ashley was in isolation for a day or so last week, and then had a fever Friday. Now they're waiting for her white blood cell counts to go up before getting released because they're at zero.
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