Craig's Appendices

So, who knew--2 posts in 2 days. I guess I have a little extra alone time lately, and not having the pressure to have pictures to post has lessened my blog anxiety. I'm slowly warming up, so hopefully we'll have some pictures soon. So, yeah, Craig's in the hospital. He had his appendix out 2 weeks ago, and then last Monday, he started to feel a lot of pain. By Wednesday he had a fever, so we called the doctor, who brushed us off. He told Craig to wait it out, but he could go to the ER if he really wanted to. So, we waited because the doctor made it sound like not such a big deal. By Friday, Craig had unbearable pain and a spiking fever. He, of course, still went to hear Justice Alito of the Supreme Court speak at Creighton (okay okay, with a bit of my prodding, since I was so jealous that he got to go), and we took him to the ER around 11 that night. They immediately admitted him, scanned him, and stuck a drain in his side to drain the MASSIVE abscess that had set up house where his appendix was 2 weeks ago! He's still there today, but if all goes well tomorrow, the plan is to have him home by tomorrow night. He's still in a fair amount of pain, but thanks to loritab and vicodin, it's mostly controlled. K, well, there's the story.

We're Still Here

I know, I know...a lot has gone on since we last posted. Thank you, Craig, for that bit of a blurb a few weeks ago. I got really disillusioned there for a while after I read a spoof blog. I realized that I've been playing into all that cliche' blogging that I have so long made fun of. You know what? Who cares--all you wonderful bloggers, whether you're being cliche' or not, good for you. I give props to all of you who go out of your way to show family and friends what you're up to. Living 1000 miles from family is difficult, especially when grandmas and grandpas and aunts and uncles and cousins can't see the cute grandbabies growing up so fast. K, I still don't have too many pictures, because in the time I haven't blogged, we stripped the wire on our AC adaptor to the computer with all the pictures, but someday I will. At the rate I blog, look forward to seeing Maddie's year old pictures. As soon as we get that up and going again, I promise, I will set up some slideshows of our Utastic summer...sometime in the next year or so. Until then, fellow clichers!