This weekend has been an up and down one. One Sat. morning I went for a nice long run of 6 miles and I haven't been able to do that for a couple of weeks because I hurt my foot. Then we went with some friends looking for toads. The boys had gone to father's and sons and found a creek that had tons of toads so they told them that they could go back and find more. They had about 30 in their bucket within 20 min. We were all walking through the water and Connor tripped and fell all the way in and then he got to roll around in the sand and was a total mess. They all had so much fun so it was worth it.
That night we had a kind of going away party for Jordan and Lacey, who are going to Penn. for the summer to sell security systems and Britt and George, who are going to be saying goodbye to just the two of them and having a baby tomorrow!! George had to leave early to go to work in Mesquite but we had fun playing games and trying to watch Marly and Me but the DVD was too scratched. That's the risk you take when renting from Red Box. At about 9:45 my dad called.
He told me that my mom was in the hospital and that she had had a heart attack! I thought I heard wrong for a second but he said that they were going to chaperone the high school yearbook dance and that her left arm started to go numb and she had a terrible pain in her chest and cold, nauseous feeling come over her and they decided to go out to the ER. When they found that she was having a heart attack they decided that she needed to get up north fast and called in the Life Flight helicopter and they flew her up to UVRMC and did an angiogram on her and found a blockage in her left ascending artery. The artery was completely blocked off and they had to put two stents in her heart. She has heart damage where the blood flow was blocked. She is doing pretty good but has still had pain in her chest and has been throwing up because of the pain medicine. Josh and I decided to drive up with Jordan and Lacey this morning to go and see her. We left our kids here with Shelly and Darin thanks so much to them for watching them. My mom had a ton of visitors today and I know that she knows how much she is loved. We got to the hospital at about 3:20 and realized that she was in the Cardiac ICU. There was a bunch of family in the waiting room and it was nice to see them there. When I saw my mom and gave her a hug I started to cry and it was so unreal to see her so sick and tired and hooked up to everything. She was crying because she was so disappointed to miss Britt having her baby tomorrow and was feeling really bad about it. I know Britt is really going to miss having her there but they both know that there is nothing that they can do about it and I hope I can help Britt as much as I can. It is also hard because our little brother Chase is graduating from High School on Wed and she won't be able to go to that either. We left the hospital around 7 and my mom was sleeping but when we got to about Fillmore my dad called and said that they were going to take my mom back into the Cath Lab and see why her heart was still hurting her so bad cause the pain should have been gone with the Nitro drip they were giving her. That took about an hour and then my dad called me again and said that everything looked good but that part of her heart that was blocked from blood flow was pretty damaged and it was going to take longer before it felt better. She can hopefully come home from the hospital on Tues but she will be out for about 2-6 weeks and has to go so some Cardiac Clinics for a couple of weeks. I know this is rambling but it has been a long 24hrs and I want to get this all down while I can.
I know that my mom is going to be okay and the blessing that she was given helped to strengthen that knowledge. My mom is just such an unselfish person and is always trying to do so much for so many people. I know how much I depend on her and just the thought of losing her or something like this happening to her is so hard for me to even think about. I love my mom so so much and I know she is going to come through this. My dad also has been so great and has been by her side through this whole thing and he really will not leave her side and he hasn't slept this whole time. I just want my parents to know how much I love them and can't wait till they are back home and healthy!