OCTOBER 2024- MISCELLANEOUS

 

The girls were trying on their new Snorkeling gear to make sure they fit right before heading to Hawaii

Sunday Dinner and games don't happen every week with the kids so we love when it does happen. Jayden invited Nicolette along, I guess if we haven't scared her off by now then she must be as crazy as we are.

Auri and her friends headed to the temple one morning, mom was hoping to have time to take them out for donuts before they had to go to school. Since they weren't able to get right in, mom grabbed the donuts and had them ready for them when they returned from doing the baptisms. We are so lucky to have a temple so close by now. The kids go quite regularly now.

Mom was in charge of a combined YM/YW's activity one month so she planned a Salt Lake City Cemetary Hunt in October. The youth had a map of the cemetary along with famous Latter Day Saints that were buried there and where they could locate their graves. Each grave found was given a certain amount of points depending on how hard it was to find and how many other graves were around it as well. They received bonus points if they found an ancestor as well as extra points if they read about up to 3 of the individuals they found the graves for. There was hot chocolate and donuts to follow. The kids loved it!

Mom was once again ready for the large group of kids that showed up every Tuesday. 

Halloween 2024

 

It wasn't a typical Halloween this year with Aysia being in the hospital the first half of the week. Dad was out of town on business all week so mom was running halloween solo without her prince charming. Aysia still wanted her weekly lunch which she missed on Tuesday as she was in the hospital. So mom had it all ready on Halloween so Aysia just had to come home and the soup was ready in the crockpots along with bread bowls and a veggie tray. She didn't feel great that day, but mom gave her some anti-nausea medicine so she could make it through the day. Auri had a few friends over for soup and bread bowls before heading out for some trick or treating. 

Aysia felt well enough to have a few friends over that night to watch a movie. What started out as a "few friends" ended up being about 40. Aysia started a movie in the movie theater with about 20 kids. When it ended she was surprised to see there were double the amount of kids in the family room next to the movie theater. I guess word got out that there was a party at the Yates's house. they just kept coming. Mom had a caramel apple bar, veggie tray, cookies, drinks and chips and queso on hand to serve the starving kids down stairs. They headed over to a church to play hide and go seek. Aysia barely made it through before running in the door and throwing up. Poor girl.

Drill Vs Cheer

 

Aysia was bummed she wasn't able to compete with the drill team when a Drill team vs Cheer Team basketball game fundraiser was hosted at the school. She was able to go cheer them on. The girls actually ended up in a tie. It was a long week, but she was glad to be around her teammates once again.

No Time for a Ruptured Appendix

 

Aysia Mentioned that she had cramps a little stronger than normal prior to going to Hawaii but she seldom complained about it on the trip. Mom told her just to take some ibuprofen. She was able to hike, swim and participate in all the activities during the trip. We returned on Tuesday and she was right back into dancing and working out as usual. By the weekend she mentioned it wasn't going away and the pain was central and slightly to the right. She went to a BYU intensive after a 3 hour drill practice that morning, putting her at 8 hours of dance on Saturday. She came home and hung out with friends. She told mom it hurt when she had to go to the bathroom. Mom thought it might be a UTI so she tested her the next morning before church. It came back negative so mom said she would take her up to do an ultrasound on her after church thinking she just had a cyst on her ovary. They headed up to the hospital and as mom scanned her she could see it wasn't her ovary but something else. She had a large mass above her uterus and mom told Aysia they needed to check into the ER. Mom was hoping it was her appendix and not something scarier. They headed down to Mountain Point Medical Center where mom knew the ER doctors that were working well. She mentioned that Aysia needed a CT scan. When she checked in, the nurse asked what her pain level was between a 0-10. Aysia said a 0. She wasn't in pain unless she had to go to the bathroom when her bladder would push on the mass. The CT scan showed a ruptured Appendix. Aysia was devastated and started to cry, not because of the pain but because she was just nominated by her coach Lexi to compete for All-State for their team along with 2 other girls. Aysia was so excited for this opportunity and knew if she had surgery, her chance to compete at All-State would be gone since it was 11 days later and an appendectomy required a minimum of a 14 day recovery.

The surgeon came in and mentioned she thought it had ruptured prior to us going to Hawaii (about 8-10 days earlier). Since it had ruptured so long ago, she said she had too much infection to surgically remove the appendix which had now walled itself off with an abscess. She said the plan would be to put a long-term drain in the abscess, put her on some heavy duty antibiotics and hope her white count would not go up which wasn't very high to begin with. So she was admitted and the waiting began. Best case scenario and what we prayed for was that the antibiotics would work, the drain would get rid of the abscess and she could plan on an appendectomy 6 weeks later after the infection was cleared out of her system. The next morning, unfortunately the white count went up which the doctor said could have happened due to the drain and she would need to stay one more day. We prayed the white count would go down. They didn't let her eat while we waited to hear about the count so once they let her eat, she was ecstatic. The next morning we received some great news, the count went down and she was discharged with the tube still in her abdomen. She missed the Drill vs Cheer team basketball game but was able to go support her team that night.

Long story short, the drain came out 7 days later and she was able to compete at All-State the following Thursday and schedule her surgery for 6 weeks later. Her prayers were answered. She was lucky she didn't need surgery while in Hawaii and lucky it had ruptured long enough to allow her to have surgery later.

After Aysia went home from the hospital she was having a hard time keeping anything down and was throwing everything up. Mom had to work on Halloween but had a lunch prepared for her and her friends (baked potato soup and pumpkin bread bowls). She wasn't feeling great so mom had one of the ER doctors prescribe some anti-nausea medicine for her which seemed to help her get through the hour long lunch although she didn't eat. She rested the rest of the day hoping she would feel better that night to celebrate Halloween. She got through the night and on her way home almost threw up in Chash's jeep but was able to hold it in long enough to get in the house and to the toilet. That night was rough and mom was concerned that she hadn't kept any of her antibiotics down since leaving the hospital so back into the ER we went. Even after getting anti nausea medicine via intravenously, she was still throwing up. So they gave her a stronger dose and gave her a big dose of antibiotics. They changed her antibiotics she was taking at home as well. After getting 2 liters of fluids and changing her antibiotics, she was a whole new person and felt so much better. Her tube was removed 3 days later.