Hospital Fun

Andrew got to be doctor Andrew for  day as he flushed out my IV at home! Crazy!

Hey there everyone! I just wanted to first say how much I am thankful for all of the prayers that were offered in my behalf. Andrew and I have had some trying times so far here in Rexburg all dealing with my Health! I just wanted to take minute and inform everyone what exactly is going on so you can continue to pray for me and know what you are praying for exactly! We have only begun our journey down this road of getting Margie healthy again!

As some of you might know I have what is called Diverticulitus. What is that you ask? Good question, here is a good definition....

Diverticulitis is a common digestive disease particularly found in the large intestine. Diverticulitis develops from diverticulosis, which involves the formation of pouches (diverticula) on the outside of the colon. Diverticulitis results if one of these diverticula becomes inflamed.
So basically, my colon does not work too well. I was diagnosed with this about five years ago and the doctors were amazed because I was so young! It usually appears in people older than 50! Somehow it made it's way into my body!

Well, lucky for me...it came back! While Andrew and I were traveling up to Rexburg, I started feeling really sick. We went to an Urgent Care there in Utah and then gave me some antibiotics and sent me on my way. It helped for a bit. About five days later, I was still in pain and I was still getting a fever. It didnt help that I wasn't RESTING. Against everything Andrew told me to do, I kept getting up and tried to help move into our apartment. Well, after a few days of getting the fever, I had had enough! We went to the Urgent Care in Idaho Falls and they diagnosed me with an even severe case of Diverticulitus than I thought I had. They were actually surprised I was not in even more pain than what I was. Apparently, one of the pouches had gotten so infected it put a hole in my colon and was now leaking into my body! Yikes! That does not sound good at all! Luckily my body was doing a REALLY good job at keeping the infection contained in one place. GO WHITE BLOOD CELLS!! They even built a wall around it! I love my body! Well, they of course admitted me to the Hospital across the street. Where they gave me antibiotics and morphine. Gotta love the morphine! On a side note, I do not like getting my blood taken or having an IV in me at all! I tend to faint when these things happen! So imagine what I was like, when it took them 4 tries to find a vein to take blood, 3 tries to find a vein for an IV for the CT Scan, 2 tries to find a vein for IV in the Emergency Room (I wish they would have just kept the CT Scan IV in), 2 tries to take blood from me in the morning, 2 tries for the blood culture, and then 2 tries for the IV they had to put in me at the Short Stay hospital. Needless to say, my arms are not looking very good right now. The good news is, I did not faint once. I didn't even get to the feeling of fainting. My ears start to ring, and I know I am about to go!!! Andrew was great during all of this. It helped that we were able to watch Brian Regan, CSI, and the Olympics during all of these needle pricks! My favorite was the time the nurse was taking my blood for the blood culture during the 4x100 relay for the men when we came from behind and beat FRANCE! The nurse was watching the TV more than my arm, but that was ok! Hello, it was an amazing race and he knew what he was doing!

After all is said and done, I was sent home from the hospital on Tuesday. Good thing too. I was getting really tired of Chicken Broth and Jello! I have to go back in a couple of weeks for surgery. They are going to remove the part of my colon that is infected.  ted. I am not sure how much of it they are taking out, but still. It is so weird to me that they can even do this. They cut out the bad part of my colon and then put the rest back together. Insane! Needless to say, I will be living with a SEMI-COLON for the rest of my life and I am okay with that!

We will keep you posted on the date of the surgery and all that jazz. Thank you again for all of your prayers. I will continue to need them. They surgery takes three weeks to recover from! Not fun! 

I love you all! And here's to a semi-colon!!!

Our trip to Idaho

July 28th---

Early to rise, we start packing up the truck!  Mom and Dad were there to guide us in the process and we also had Jose and Paco.  About two hours later the truck was ready to go and so were we.  So, after saying our final "See you laters" to the Hillmans and Mom and Dad we were off into the wide blue yonder.  Our first stop was in Lubbock, Texas.  We were on a time crunch due to thefact that we had to get there for our Open House that started at seven.  Just as luck would have it, we missed one of our turn 

offs and that caused us to get there at 7:00!  Yikes!  My dress alone took 20 minutes to get into! However, we still had an enjoyable drive up there after seeing all of the windmills that are now dotting West Texas!  When we got to the Davis' we ran in, we said our quick hellos, took showers and got dressed! We were out meeting the crowd at 7:45!  Not too bad!  It was an extremely enjoyable night.  Andrew met my Lubbock family and friends!  It was so nice to see everyone again!  My goodness...Lubbock has such a place in my heart!  I love it!

July 29th---

Tour of Lubbock will begin!  First off, we saw Shanna's new home!  Then we went past all of the houses that I had lived in!  I was surprised I even remembered how to get to them. Then we went to the Institute Building and chilled with Brother Merrill.  Then off to Tech!  I hardly even recognized  the campus anymore! And they had all of these new apartments right off of the stadium. WOW!!  Crazy!  More tour of Lubbock....down SlideAve.  the Temple, 82nd street.  You know all of the hot spots in town!  No worries, after the dinner at Krista's that night we stopped at Bahama Bucks, so Andrew could get a feel for what goodness tastes like! It was  a great day in Lubbock!  It is hard to believe all the changes that has occured the growth it will continue to experience!

July 30th---

The majority of today was spent in the UHAUL!!!!!!!!  Oh for the love of no fun!  Luckily, we had our laptop connected to a stereo so we had some nice tunes to jam to!  The thing about UHauls is that they don't go very fast...even though Andrew liked to push the limit...often!  And the floor gets extrememly hot!  I almost burnt the bottom of my feet a number of times.  All in all we survived the trip....we left Lubbock at 7 in the AM and got to Salt Lake at 12 midnight!  Such a long day!  The highlight of the trip would definately be the pit stop at the Four Corners.  I have always wanted to go there and now Andrew and I have fulfilled that dream of mine!  It was really fun! It was little.  Nothing that I expected.  I thought it would have been much bigger than that.  But I guess the point where four states comes together can only be so big!  Andrew got a picture of us in each state and were on our way!  We are all about randomness and fun!  We also stopped at Billy the Kids grave in New Mexico..that was also exciting! 

July 31st---

Thursday was spent in South Jordan with Andrew's family!  During the day we were on our own because everyone else was at work. So we wandered around the new neighborhood next to the Townhomes and tried to get into as many houses as possible.  We were successful on two and then we also looked at

the Model home.  They were pretty nice.  At about 1:30 we got a phone call from Kate asking us to come get her.  She was right by the entrance of the neighborhood and could not drive her car anymore because her tire popped right off and rolled down the hill!!!  You heard me right, it popped off!  It did not go flat, it seriously came right off of her car.  The axle broke causing her tire to fly off.  She skidded on the road for a good 10 yards leaving a gash in the road.  We ended up chillin' with her by her car until her husband, Branson, could get there and then they waited for things to get fixed.  Branson's brother helped fix it!  Crazy the things that happen!  That night was full of food and games.  We introduced Life Twists and Turns to the family and they loved it!  So, as if Kate's wheel was not enough excitement for one day, that night was the beginning of a very long week.  This was the night that I started having severe stomach and back pains and a fever.  I tried so hard to get all those symptoms to go away. Andrew went to Wal-Mart at 4 in the morning to get me medicine, but nothing seemed to help!  So, needless to say it was not a very enjoyable night for Andrew or me. 

August 1---

We woke up and I was still in pain so we decided to go to the hospital.  Just as a expected, diverticulitus.  It has come back!  I got it four years ago, and now it has returned.  The Urgent Care that we went to was a bit shady, but we continued forth with what the doctor told us to do!  We went and picked up the antibiotics and decided to continue to Rexburg.  We had to get up there.  I was sick!  I still had a fever, but we pressed on.  That was the longest four hours I have ever experienced and I am sure Andrew has experienced as well.  We even were able to stop on the side of the road for me to throw - up!  Apparently, I was suppose to take the medicine with food...oops! We arrived in Rexburg at about 3. It was a good thing we came now, because they are closed on Saturdays. We would not have been able to move in!  Good thing we suffered through that trip!  Finally, we are here in Rexburg and we are in our apartment.  Andrew as so kind to get the mattresses out the very first thing!  He told me to go to sleep and he would take care of everything!  The Chapman's came over to help and they had the truck unloaded in no time.  That night was spent with me in bed and Andrew starting to unpack.  Oh goodness, not the way I imagined spending my first night in Rexburg...sicker than sick and just not loving life!  Luckily, I got better in time, after many fevers and a hospital stay.  And life is much better, even if we are still in Rexburg!!  =)  We love our life here and are so excited for all of the adventures we will have!  Oh goodness.  How much fun we will have!

We became the Walkers

Well, well, well! I figured since I am now married, it seems fitting to have a Blog! So, Andrew and I are now bloggers. Now you can really keep track of everything we are doing! The first couple of blogs will be us catching you up on the last couple of months of our life together. They have been jam packed!!!!

So, even though we are posting this on September 1st....we need to back up to where the Walkers began. June 21st was the first day of our life together. We gt sealed in the San Antonio Temple. Of course it was a dream come true. Andrew and I absolutely loved that all of our family and friends were there to help us celebrate. After the sealing there was an hour of picture taking outside in the hot San Antonio weather. Andrew and I both went away from that experience with sunburns. Luckily, we had hand held fans and water bottles for everyone. And, if you were not in the picture you were standing in the shade. It was fun taking pictures with everyone. The skirts for the bridesmaids were WONDERFUL (thanks you Elizabeth) And all the guys looked stunning in their nice pink ties! Once the picture taking was all said and done, Andrew left to take care of things at the hotel, and I went to Wal-Mart. That's right! I went to WalMart in my dress and everything! We had to get some pictures developed for the reception and I thought it would be an adventure to go to Wal-Mart in my wedding dress!!!

The reception was a blast. It was so nice to see so many of our dear friends and dance the night away! We were having so much fun, we didn't even realize we left 40 minutes after the end time of the party. Ooops. It truly was such a fun day. Everything went just as planned! Luckily, Andrew and I come from amazing families who helped out so much with EVERYTHING! Thank you so much!

Well, Andrew and I left around 8:45 and off to the Honeymoon we go! Did this really happen. Am I really married! So crazy to think about!