for all those church-goers...

...ashley is going to be fine!!!!

not quite your average wednesday night. our thanks go out to all of you who helped out until tim and i arrived and who prayed even after we were gone. ashley started out walking into church youth group feeling fine and ended up being taken out of church by ambulance to the hershey medical center.

at one point this evening i had a husband and a daughter both on some wicked pain meds...within minutes they are both taking morphine!!! tim by mouth and ashley by IV. ashley was hit tonight with one unbelievably painful ovarian cyst!!!! just about everyone (including the doctors) thought she was having an appendix attack but the CT scan showed a cyst on her ovary...not quite as glamerous but equally painful for sure!!!

the poor kid was hit out of nowhere...one minute feeling fine and the next minute passed out on the floor. she woke up to excruitiating pain and nausea and sweats and light-headedness...she felt so bad that we couldn't really even move her. SO...the one paramedic that works only 14 days a year in the township happens to be the same one that picked her up two years ago after she passed out at soccer...came and took her to the hospital.

after the blood work and the CT scan and the morphine she was finally starting to feel human again...poor kid had a rough night. they let us bring her home on tylenol with codeine and we are to see her family doctor to monitor the cyst today. so far she is resting...it was kinda funny in the ER...usually I am the one who sits and explains what is going to happen and makes the kid feel relaxed...but this night was ALL DAD. (other than the actual cyst) tim knew exactly what was going on...been there and done that...

he was in the ER numerous times
he knew about the IV
he knew about the blood work
he knew about the CT scan
he knew about the dye and how it felt as it went into the veins and thru the body
he knew about the IV morphine and how it felt as it went into the veins and thru the body (she kinda liked that feeling)
he was a trooper tonight...i knew he wasn't feeling his best yet he stood by her the entire evening and into the wee hours of the morning making her feel relaxed and making her laugh. what a good guy!!!

she also was a trooper...keep her in your prayers the next couple of days. the cyst is still there and is still painful. she is going to miss school today (she is really upset about that...day #4 and she is missing already). she wanted to try it on the heavy duty meds but the doctor said NO WAY...she will at least miss thursday and maybe even friday. pray for her.

well...i have been up about a full 24 hours and had to call off work today...i hear her moaning in there so i had better get going...pray for me too. (could be a long day).

thanks for checking in.

tim and tammy