ISCH'S 28TH BIRTHDAY
This week was my birthday week! I can't believe I'm almost in my 30's.
For my birthday, Nate planned with Kory for a lady in her ward that owns a bakery to bake me a cake! And let me tell you, that cake was the best cake I've ever had! It was SO moist and chocolatey. They really nailed it.
We did a little celebration at Jake and Kory's house with cake and ice cream. It was perfect.
STORY TIME WITH GRANDMA HANSEN
Ruby went to her second ever story time with Grandma Hansen. She couldn't seem to sit still. Addalyn and Kory came and so did Kory's older sister Whitney and her kids.
HANNAH & MIKE'S IDAHO RECEPTION
Hannah and Mike had their Idaho reception at the Blackfoot West Stake Center, the one Hannah went to all growing up. It turned out beautiful!
HANSEN FAMILY
WIRIG FAMILY
FRIENDS
RECEPTION LINE
CUTTING THE CAKE
THE KIDDOS
We put all the little kiddos into a room right off the kitchen so they could run and play.
GYM SPORTS
Saturday we all went to the church and played some sports in the gym. The boys love playing basketball.
Scott was pooped after all that running around at the church. Even though he was pooped he still did his run in the snow to the other side of the field and back.
HONG'S CHINESE BUFFET
Eating dinner at the local Chinese buffet in town. Afterward we went to Jake and Kory's to hang out.
HOME VIDEOS AT JAKE AND KORY'S
RANDOM PICS FROM IDAHO TRIP
Ready to eat some Mexican food!
Aunt Kory saying hi to Ruby.
Ruby and Addy hanging around the house.
Grandma Hansen has this exercise board that they love to lay and be spinned and rocked on.
Ruby and Addy both love the horse at G&G's house and the song it plays.
Such a pretty pony.
Clippity-clop, clippity-clop.
Such a pretty pony.
Clippity-clop, clippity-clop.
I love to have my coat brushed,
underneath the old oak tree.
So let's jump and run,
and we'll have some fun,
won't you come and play with me?
Hanging around the house.
Ruby smiling so sweetly in the music room.
Hannah has been pretty ill the past few months. Long story short, her legs started to swell up and get really splotchy while we were in Idaho for her and Mike's reception. When she went in to get it checked out, after some testing they realized she had undiagnosed strep this whole time. They previously thought she had Mono so no treatment was given. Since her strep went undiagnosed for so long it built up and moved down into her legs causing cellulitis. Cellulitis is caused from the same bacteria that causes strep. Poor girl!
BACK HOME IN UTAH
Back at home on Sunday.
Our Hansen Sunday photo #25.
GRANDMA CHRISTENSEN SCARE
My Grandma Christensen scared us the other day! I had my Mom write her experience about what happened, here it is...
"I had been thinking about my Mom and feeling I needed to make some time to stop by and see her. Dale and I went over and when we got there my Dad tried to have her come downstairs for a visit. She was asleep and so he wasn't sure she'd be coming down. I decided to go up and check on her. I found her in the bathroom and tried helping her. When I spoke with her she slurred her words and couldn't speak very well. This worried me so we decided to take her immediately to the hospital to be checked on. Misty, my sister met us at the house and we all drove to the hospital to be a support to her. In the emergency room they discovered she was severely dehydrated so they put in an iv which was quite an ordeal. It's not easy to stick a needle in someone who is dehydrated. She was looking stable and it was getting late so Dale and I left so Dale could get some sleep. After we left my Mom went unconscious and her blood pressure dropped pretty quickly. The doctor, through some thoughtfulness decided it was narcotics/pain meds causing her to have this negative reaction. She had pain meds in her blood and that doubled with dehydration caused her to be in an overdose situation. The severe dehydration caused her kidneys to not work properly in clearing out the medication fast enough. She almost died that night! I was so very thankful I listened to the nudge of the spirit to check on her, not just call but go over. I'm also thankful for the caring and thoughtful doctor that figured out what was going on with her. He literally saved her life. She spent a few days in the hospital and then a care center. During that time she was able to receive really good care and recover enough to go home. Tawny and I had her in our homes for a period of time to continue helping her stabilize and get her house ready."
I also found an email Misty DeClerk had sent all her siblings that my Mom forwarded to me about her perspective on what happened...
"After spending time with Keeli in town yesterday, I went to check on mom at about 5PM. She hadn't been up at all. She was having trouble walking, communicating, she couldn't open her pill bottles, she really wasn't herself. I called dad up to see what he could figure out. He said that she had a hard time waking up sometimes. He told me that I should go home and take care of my family. I realize now that I shouldn't have left. Mom did remember that Erika and Dale were coming for a visit, she mumbled that a couple times to me.
At 8:30, Erika and Dale got there and talked with dad for a little bit. He went upstairs a couple times to get mom to come down. He told them that if they wanted to see her they should go upstairs. She was the same as when I saw her, not herself, really not quite there. Erika called me to say that they were going to take her to the ER.
In the ER, they figured out pretty quick that mom was severely dehydrated, lethargic, had a fever, and had low blood sugar. They had her drink juice and water and she started responding better, looking better. With the dehydration and mom's very hard to find veins, they had a really tough time getting an IV started. A couple nurses tried, without success. They were able to draw some blood to get some tests going. Mom seemed stable. Erika and Dale decided to leave at about that time, was it about 1 AM, Erika?
A little bit after that, a nurse came in with a bedside commode, wanting to get a urine sample. Dad and I wondered why they had waited so long to get that. With the sample, they found that she had a raging UTI. They wanted her to stay in the hospital for a couple days to treat it. A different nurse was finally able to get an IV started, by then her veins looked a little better.
After that, all heck broke loose. She couldn't be woken up, her blood pressure dropped WAY low, down to 68/36 and then to 64/38, and she wasn't breathing well. Dad told the doctors that she is DNR. It really looked like we might lose her. I was a mess. They talked about her being put in the ICU if they could get her BP up higher. They thought it was so low because of the dehydration. The ICU doctor came to talk to us. Dad gave him a medical history while he looked her over. He kept talking with us and looking at her, trying to wake her up. All of a sudden, the ICU doc said that she looked like she was having trouble because of the narcotics. They gave her an injection of Narcan, a medication that counteracts narcotics. Almost instantaneously, mom woke up and started writhing in pain. She didn't have any pain meds in her system and she was in tons of pain all over her body.
This all looked like an overdose of narcotics but it was not. We were pretty sure that mom hadn't had any narcotic pain meds (Percocet and Methadone) all day.
The nurse explained it to us, because of the bad UTI, the narcotics got stuck in the kidneys, they weren't getting flushed out. She said when people have bad infections of any kind, this happens sometimes if they take this type of pain med. It's like the narcotics become very concentrated, and can't leave the body.
By 4 AM, her BP was 101/49. Yep, that sounds low, but that's normal for her. At 4:30, we were finally headed up to her room. She was stable, not in the ICU. She will be fine after a couple days of getting hydrated and the antibiotics.
I'm exhausted, can't think anymore, need some sleep.
Misty
MORE PICTURES FROM THIS WEEK...
A picture Janna sent me of Kinley and Millie in their Sunday best.
