STUFF

Here is the promised update on the things that have been going on this summer. You've already seen the posts about the canoe marathon and the Au Sable River Festival. What I didn't tell you was that Ray was in the hospital at the time. Very early Thursday morning (2:15am), before the marathon, he had to go to the emergency room because he had severe abdominal pain. They told him it was constipation and sent him home with two bottles of magnesium citrate laxative. Well, it didn't work, so he called his regular doctor the next morning, and he told him to try a Fleet... Soon after that didn't work, the hospital called back and said that the Australian doctor that they had faxed his cat scan to had misread it, and that the local doctor that looked at it decided he had appendicitis. They told Ray that he needed to come back to the hospital right away. I left work around 10:15am to go to the hospital, and they finally operated on him about 5 hours later. Ray has Addison's disease, which complicates any health situation he has. He went into septic shock that night, and we almost lost him. He was in intensive care for a couple of days. He his doing fine now, but is still a little sore. He went back to work last Monday and tomorrow is his follow-up visit with the surgeon. We also found out that Ray's mom was ill, and have been dealing with that situation at the same time. She is also doing a lot better and we have high hopes that the worst of it is over with. Next post will be about the fun stuff that I did before the bad stuff happened.