Kidney Stone and It's a BOY!

Yeah I know, how do those two go in the same title you might ask. Well last week on Friday I had felt some cramping or soreness mainly on my left side.  I didn't think anything about it since I am pregnant and your body does weird things anyway so I just ignored it pretty much and took it easy.  The next day, Saturday, I was working the storage units at home and Jet was upstairs napping. James was out cleaning windows and out of nowhere I started to get a sharp pain in my left side where the cramping had been.  I thought, 'well that for sure is not normal'. So I tried to call James and texted him that I was heading to the instacare. I got Jet up from his nap,  packed him up and headed to the instacare about 5 min from my house.  I went in and they told me to go to the emergency room because my blood pressure was high and they didn't have imaging or ultrasound really to help me.  So I packed Jet up again and the pain was still there.  As I was driving myself to the emergency room, the pain was getting worse.  I was scared I wouldn't make it to the emergency room.  I made it there, got Jet in the stroller and they checked me in.  The nurse said it sounded like a kidney stone, so I guess that made me feel better.  After I had been checked in, Jet and I went to our room.  The pain got really bad.  I mean like, pain so bad you throw up, feel like you are going pass out, break out in a sweat type pain.  The nurses could hear my moaning and crying and gave me a couple of doses of morphine, and even then the pain was just bearable.  I made sure everyone knew that I was pregnant, like 3 times so the morphine was ok for baby. Anyway, I called James and told him to come over and soon he was there.  The nurses had already changed Jet's diaper twice, so that was nice to have someone else do that for a change. I felt bad for the kid having to watch me writhe around in pain, but he got a cookies and chocolate milk, so I don't think he minded.
          We went into the ultrasound room to try and see the kidney stone and check on baby.  Baby was doing great and I asked the nurse to see if baby was a boy or girl, just to brighten my day.  The tech found the parts and asked if we were familiar with them, and for sure it is a BOY! Even though I was kinda out of it, I was so happy.  It could not be more perfect if I had planned it myself.  Two boys, two years apart, both in October. I have everything ready for their first 20 months of life. I am soooo excited to see them grow up, play with each other, and become friends.  I really hope they are great friends; I will do my best to foster that friendship.
    So as far as the kidney stone, I went home after my emergency room visit and still had pain, bearable pain.  It got a little better for a few hours, then got worse towards 11pm at night.  I took some pain medication and was able to sleep for a while.  I woke up mother's day morning and the pain was gone! Best mother's day present ever! I went to church, just sacrament and felt a lot better, later that night the stone passed and I was done with it.  During the ultrasound the tech saw another kidney stone hanging out in my kidney and someday it might decide to make its descent, something to look forward to :(.
     For now I am just grateful to not have that pain of a kidney stone, but it reminded me of how things in October will be when boy #2 joins our family.  At least with that kind of pain it peaks and fades a little and you get a precious angel in the end.

 On May 11-12 Jet and I went on a Father and Sons campout.  At first I thought he was a little young for it. But I said
what the heck and knew that one way or the other would create a memorable experience.  While I was at work, Amanda packed the car with our tent, chair, stroller and other things.  We drove up Spanish Fork canyon to a place called Wanrhodes.  There was a great turnout and some ward members even brought their horses.  We started the evening with some great dinner. We had beef stew and cheesey potatoes. Then for dessert we had dutch oven peach cobler and ice cream.  After that we sat around the campfire and Jet got to pet a dog and go look at the horses. After that I thought I should start getting the tent set up.  I later found out that we were the only ones staying in a tent.  Other people mentioned sleeping under the stars and others brought travel trailers.  That was okay, I was up for the adventure.  The only problem was that there wasn't very many places nearby with flat ground.  I found a place that was 20 feet from the fire and 10 feet from the horses.  This later turned out to be a problem. After that, Jet got to roast his first marshmallow over the fire, although he wasn't as interested in roasting it as he was just eating it.  We did go down to a little river for a bit, but I soon thought he would get dirty and or wet, so I took him back up away from the creek.  I changed Jet's diaper in the tent and we started to make for bed.  Jet was a little bit scared I think at first, maybe a little claustrophobic I don't know. Then he didn't have too much trouble going to sleep. It was a little bit colder up there than I thought, so he slept in his jacket and other clothes.  I couldn't get to asleep, partly because I was on my back and the other part because people were talking around the fire for another couple hours, also someone had a lantern on and so there was plenty of light coming through the tent.  I didn't have it in me to ask people to be quiet or turn the light off, or go do it myself, so I just relaxed for a while in the tent.  I must have fallen asleep because next thing I knew I was waking up and it was only 1am.  I had to go the bathroom and it was really cold.  The other problem was that the air mattress was losing air.  So although I didn't want to, I knew it would be better if I went the bathroom and put more air in the mattress.  In doing so, I woke Jet up. At one point we did get the stars out and it was very beautiful.  At another point I remember bear hugging Jet and putting us both in two sleeping bags and trying to stay warm together.  Jet was really such a trooper.  He cried a little bit here and there, but overall I was so proud of him.  He was up for the adventure.  It really was a great bonding experience for us.  I just wish it had been 20 degrees warmer.  So the other problem was that I lost my glasses somewhere in the middle of the night....I had always said that if ever got too bad, we could just pack up and go home.  Well now I had to wait till morning light to find my glasses, because I wasn't going to leave without them.  But we were so cold.  There was litterally frost on the car and tent in the morning. Another part of me wanted to hold out until breakfast.  So we got some sleep here and there, and we waited for light at around 6am and I was like, I am freezing, I don't care about breakfast, I am out of here.  So I backed the car up to the tent and turned on the heater. I put Jet in the car while I was packing up.  I remember it was so cold, that I even warmed up in the car for a few minutes to have a break from packing up the car.  I found my glasses in the tent and then I stuffed everything in the back of the car. I was hungry and thought we'd get a small breakfast at McDonalds.  It was pretty fun, me and Jet on a adventure, 7am in the morning at McDonalds.  I bet we looked like an odd pair.  We got some breakfast and then I let Jet play in the play area for like 30 minutes, trying to buy some time, so that Amanda could sleep in some more before we came home. We came home and showed Mom all our pictures and then went back to bed.  It was a great trip with some hiccups.  I was happy to make some great memories with Jet and be a cool dad for him.  We'll have to do it again sometime!!!