Ella's Surgery

As if i was nervous enough already i didn't need anything to make me more nuts. So Ella was scheduled for surgery yesterday. They told me i would receive a phone call from the hospital telling me what time we needed to be there the day before. So 2:00pm rolls around and i haven't heard from them so i take it upon myself to call and find out what time we needed to be there. I am one of those people i need things in order and need to know. No last minute crap for me. So i call and they tell me well they are just starting to make the calls you should hear something soon. Okay well i am already on the line you can just tell me now. NO you will be getting a phone call. OK fine! So 6:00pm rolls around and nothing. I have not heard a word from the hospital so i call again well they are closed! Well at least the reception people i guess. So i am not in a panic. Surely i dialed wrong or something i call several more times and nothing. So i called the Dr's office and explain my situation and she says hold on puts me on hold and then transfers me to the same recording telling me they are closed. UGH!!! So i call back and explain my situation again and say please don't transfer to this recorded message that they are closed! So i finally get a human to talk to who tries real hard to help figure out what time her procedure is scheduled for. She fines Ella in the system and say it's scheduled for 8:15am. Okay great she knows nothing else and says i guess you should try to be here at least an hour before. Don't eat or drink anything after midnight. okay that part i new. She tells me when i get up to try calling them again. So i do and what do you know they don't open till 8:00 am are you SERIOUS???? Well whatever we get on the road start our drive we get to the surgery center it's locked/closed WHAT????????????? This can't be happening! So i again start calling and getting stupid recording and finally call the Dr's office again explain my situation over AGAIN. Finally i get someone to open the door at the surgery center to only find out surgery is no longer done there. You have got to be kidding me right? Okay well.............where am i suppose to go? I am now heated and have a Baby who wants a cup! The very nice helpful lady calls around FOREVER trying to find out and finally we need to go to another surgery center because the surgery center was bought by someone else and now the procedures are being done there. UGH!!! But no one decided to tell me this. Can't wait to get that how did we do survey! You'll be sorry! Finally we get there only to find our Ella's appointment somehow has been canceled. OH HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! So they have no idea how she got canceled or anything but will still do the surgery. So they take her back we do paper work and everything she is doing great. Talking to the nurses and everyone telling her how beautiful she is and how much they LOVE her big flower Ba-bet(barrette). Then the anesthetist walks in yeah not so happy anymore. I think he was just scary and had a heavy accent. The eyes welded up and so did mine. It is so heart wrenching to watch your baby scared or sad and crying. So normally they give the kids this drink of medicine which makes the sorta loopy so when they have to leave Mama and Daddy they don't freak out. Well the medicine takes about 45 minutes to kick in and now they don't have time so needless to say she was balling and so was i when they had to take her away from us. We went in the waiting room and i stared at the clock waiting for them to call us and tell us everything was okay. There was this man in there all loud in everyone's business i wanted to just throw something at. So finally after what seemed like forever they called Ella's name and i jump up and turn to walk towards the desk and for whatever reason thought i was on the end seat and i wasn't. WHAM!! right into the row of chairs ya that hurt a bit. So they were letting us know she was out of surgery and sleeping in recovery and they would call us when she woke up. I had to use the bathroom the whole time but didn't want to leave Ella for a second or miss anything. So i held it till that point. Once i new she was out and in recovery i decided to go to the bathroom before i peed me pants. Of coarse when i go into the bathroom the Dr. came out and talked to Brian just my luck. He told him everything went well and she needed to see him in a couple weeks. THANK GOD FOR ANSWERED PRAYERS! Ella finally woke up and we got to go back and see her. When we got back there she was drunk licking a Popsicle. She was still very out of it but cried as soon as she seen us. and yes so did I. She just wanted to go home and sleep and watch her new Bambi movie she said. So we finally got to dress her and take her home. She slept the whole way home until we where three house from home and stuck by a train. The train blew and woke her up. WOW i guess her hearing is better because she couldn't ever hear the train. So home we went and she is doing fine. I want to thank all of you for the thoughts and prayers for Ella and her family yesterday. We needed it and they were answered thank you all so much. You sometimes forget how many people you really have in your corner till you ask for help! Thanks again! Love Darcy & Ella!

My Wedding!

So here is my wedding story for those who care!
Let's see where do i begin. The wedding September 13th 2008. We decide to move the first of September. So we had been packing and moving labor day weekend (no cookouts for us) busy busy busy. Well Ella got sick. She caught the flu from her sisters earlier in the week. By Tuesday the 2nd she had been sick with throwing up the poops and a fever for over a week. So we take her to the doctor. He says yes she has the flu give it a few more days she should kick it by then. She has no immune system so it's gonna take her longer. Okay fine! Well she gets worse instead of better fevers get higher & higher. By Thursday night she has 104.7 fever i have her in a cold tub nothing is working. She stopped eating earlier in the week. So Friday morning take her to the doctor he takes one look at her and admits her in the hospital which we stay for a week. Mind you we were moving and still were not done. So Brian had to work, visit us. and finish moving us. We should had already been out by the first this is now the 5th. Oh Yeah and i am getting married the 13th! So Ella gets worse while in there she is so dehydrated and 105.5 fevers. They are taking blood, running tests she has an IV. I am going nuts cause i have no idea what is wrong with my baby and neither do they. She is so dehydrated they can't even get any blood to come out of her. No where and they tried several places. As a mom it was horrible to watch my baby that miserable and in that much pain & have no way to help her. So finally they figure out that from having the flu she got a urinary track infection. And those of you who have had them no how painful they are. But imagine my baby she can't tell me what hurts. So finally after they start the antibiotics she still is not responding. She is still running high fever and not eating.She never ate the whole time we were there. Well on Wednesday she had been fever free for almost 24 hours so they let us go. She still was not eating. Oh yeah my wedding is now in 3 days. I still have stuff to do and get. UGH!!!! So we had rehearsal on Friday in the rain. Oh yeah it's raining raining horrible. Did i mention my wedding is outside and so is my reception! So we do rehearsal in the rain. Still running around trying to get last minute stuff. We wake up Saturday morning to my basement is flooded. I am sucking water out of my basement on my wedding day. Are you kidding me? This can't really be happening. Oh but it is. Oh well what yeah gonna do. Oh yeah i bought a tanning package to tan and spent $70 to tan and lotion and tanned three times. Yup three times. The first time for 12 minutes so i wouldn't burn. Then next time the guy put it on for 20 minutes i burned all the hell so i couldn't tan for a while. Then Ella went in hospital so i couldn't! Then got out an tanned in a stand up for 12 minutes and burned my armpits. YUP!!!! Okay so that morning trying to get ready! Myself and the kids and Brian is there to. So i get his clothes out for him. So he can do his thing and get ready. Oh yeah it stopped raining for a few hours i was so happy i am thinking oh yeah we can do this it's actually gonna stop and we can get threw this. On the way to the beach about 5 minutes before we get there it starts pouring. Yes Valpo got 12 inches of rain and i got married in it. On the beach in the pouring rain i got married. Your wedding is a day not to be forgotten well i don't think i will ever forget my wedding ! So whatever we are drenched! We couldn't take pictures on the beach cause it was pouring rain. Oh yeah Morgan's dress brakes in the middle of the ceremony. I had to give her Ella's like a shirt cause she had shorts on under hers so my baby had to be naked. Why i have no idea. The elastic broke and the dress just starting falling apart in front of my eyes. A man and his stupid dog were at the beach and while we were taking pictures the man let his dog go and he jumped on me and Brian with his muddy paws in our white clothes. YUP!!!!!! Still wonderful! Our reception the tents are flooded! The grass looks like a pond! Kids are muddy and playing with worms. So the food is good the music great. The ALCOHOL the best. We dance we talk we have a great time. My cake oh yeah the cake basically just disintegrated. All the humidity ruined my cake.

Okay the wedding is over! A lot of people couldn't make it because of all the flooding which sucked. We go on our honeymoon a much needed and over due getaway. We went to Tennessee it was wonderful. We hiked and rest we drank we ate it was wonderful. Just what we both needed. A week away with zero responsibilities. I was worried about Ella though with just getting out of the hospital how she would do. So anyhow it's over and time to come back to reality. My mom says did you forget something for the wedding? I said no i don't think so. We forgot to put out the favors. YUP! So we have boxes full of matches with our names & wedding date and cute flip flops or a hibiscus. OH WELL! Oh yeah and Brian wore my dads shirt for the wedding and my dad wore Brian's. OH well! It's over with. I am now married and on to the rest of life. Love Darcy Baros!