Recovery and thanks

Friday morning JD woke up with a terrible, sharp pain in his lower abdomen, by Saturday night he was in the ER preparing for surgery to have his appendix removed. It all happened so fast. My parents just happened to be visiting from out of town, so they were able to watch Adeline so I could be at the hospital with JD. I'm glad he went in to get checked (even though he didn't even have a third of the symptoms) the doctors were able to catch the appendicitis early, it wasn't too inflamed and they performed laparoscopic surgery, three small incisions. Since JD is in good health and came out of surgery great, he was discharged from the hospital yesterday. He is pretty much on bed rest for the next two weeks with the restriction of lifting no more than 10 pounds. Isn't modern medicine amazing??

With as crazy as the situation was, everything went so smoothly. Yes of course I cried but both JD and I had the feeling of everything was going to be okay. God was in control and took care of everything. We have been blessed by many of our friends and family reaching out and supporting us. Within moments of the prayer chain being activated before the surgery I had three phone calls of people offering to watch Addie. We've had visits to our home, meals brought over and uplifting phone calls, texts and facebook messages. It's good to know JD and our family are loved and have not only good friends and family but a church community. Thank you to all of you ~ we love you too!

I've been spoiling JD with plenty of love and support (and trying to get my rest when I can.) His dad is visiting right now, it has been great to have him around cheering up JD and helping me with the heavy lifting around the house since my main man is out of commission. Now we are just praying for JD's swift recovery and saying prayers of thanks.

Footnote: Addie has done great with the whole situation and she showed genuine concern for her daddy when she visited him in the ER before surgery, too cute.