So what a crazy end of the year it was for us. Very emotional needless to say and also very humbling. On top of financial stresses, we had a legal issue that we had to deal with and are still dealing with but mostly over thank GOODNESS! When I thought it couldn't get any worse..... I was very wrong. Jeff was put in the ICU for 4 days, the weekend before Christmas. It was more serious than I thought. Jeff was really sick for about 2 days and it wasn't until he completely passed out when I took him to the ER. Come to find out, Jeff was bleeding somewhere internally and needed to find out where all the blood was coming from. They did and endoscopy and found that he had a rather large ulcer that ruptured in his intestines. It had stopped bleeding on its own which is probably what saved his life. He had lost over half his body's volume of blood and needed over 4 bags of blood put back into his body. He was unstable for about 2 days and then slowly got the coloring back in his face and almost got rid of the old blood that was sitting in his stomach for who knows how long. They don't know what caused the ulcer but they think it was stressed related. He was home for Christmas but still a little weak and is now back to his full functioning self. What a scare it was for our family. It was hard to see my husband so weak and vulnerable. It still hasn't hit me of how seriously wrong it could have gone. I am just so glad that we are now into a new year, starting fresh and very hopeful for the future. I am blessed with great friends and family, for the prayers that were said on the behalf of our family.
With the series of events that have happened in the past 3 months, we have been very humbled and was reminded of what truly was important.
