A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer...

Surgery went without a hitch. My surgery time got changed to 10am, instead of 7:30am, which was nice because we didn't have to wake up super early. Cayden stayed the night at Bryce and Julie's house the night before surgery, so we just came up by ourselves on Thursday morning. We checked in to the hospital around 9:00am and they pretty much took me right back to get prepped. Donning my beautiful hospital gown, I sat around for a while while they put in my IV port and my Scottish nurse named Val kept me entertained with her stories about being a traveling hippie in the 70s. Bryan was there waiting with me, and eventually my mom showed up too. Surgery was running a little late, but I think they got me in around 10:30 or 11am. Once they started pumping me with drugs, I don't remember much.  I woke up around 3:00pm in the recovery room with a bunch of other groggy people. I felt pretty terrible, but that was just the anesthesia wearing off. They eventually wheeled my bed to ...

Being sick is a lame thing. When my husband is sick, I tend to roll my eyes and complain about the mountains of used tissues everywhere, but when I am sick, it's not so simple. I'm now the one sneezing every 5 minutes and hoping that my bedroom stays below 85 degrees. Bryan is so good to me. He's still sick with an ear infection, but knowing that I need to get better before my thyroidectomy on Thursday, he took Cayden to work with him and called up Seihwa to watch her for most of the day. As nice as it is to have an empty house to rest in, I'm bummed that Cayden is away from me today. Tomorrow, I work, so she's with my mom. Wednesday, we are taking the youth group to Wild Waves, so she's staying with Bryan's mom. Thursday is my surgery, so Bryan's mom is watching her again. Just not much time in there for mommy/daughter time! I don't have many fears going into this surgery. There's like a 2 percent chance I could completely lose my voic...

Just as I was getting ready to head off to church on Sunday afternoon (12:27pm to be exact), my best friend, Alicia, called me to say she had been admitted to the hospital and was in labor!  Since Bryan was speaking at Canyonview Camp starting Sunday night, I needed to get everything packed up for a week at camp AND a night of me staying at the hospital with Alicia and Ben (I was the designated right-after-birth photographer). So....I skipped church to pack. Once I got everything ready for a week away from home, I packed up Cayden and headed to my parents house, so they could watch her while I was at the hospital. Bryan had to head to camp that night, so he couldn't watch Cayden the whole night. By the time I got to the hospital (4pm), Alicia had already gotten the epidural and was resting quite comfortably.  Whenever she wanted more drugs, she could press this little bolus button. It was a very handy button. Alicia's whole family was there at one point. The epidur...