When you go from one moment of doing jumps, tumbles, and stunts, and then a few hours later your lying in a hospital bed it's never fun. Extra bummer when it's the week before Christmas.
Bailey competed for her first time as a level 4 with her team on the 14th. They did incredible given that it was their first comp of the season AND that they've never had a level 4 team before. They had a couple of slight imperfections in their routine and didn't end up placing but it was a very close division against very large gyms with seasoned teams. We were extremely proud of our baby girl. We enjoyed the weekend in Salt Lake. We took our kids on the "Polar Express" aka the Heber Creeper and spent time playing with cousins. Monday came and went as usual. The kids went to school and Bailey and Peyton went to cheer after. Other than I had caught a cold and wasn't functioning that well all seemed normal. About 3:00am Bailey came in saying that she hadn't slept and her stomach was hurting. I was sick and didn't respond. Mat told her to drink some sprite and get to bed. When morning came Bailey said she didn't think she should go to school as she hadn't slept at all and the sprite didn't help. Reluctantly we told her she could stay home. Caleb had already been in our room earlier saying he was sick and was back in bed as well. I just thought we were all coming down with a Christmas bug. When Bailey finally emerged that morning again she looked very pale. She had been vomiting quite a bit and her symptoms weren't similar at all to mine and Caleb's. Then I happened to see her texts to her friends saying she had sharp pains in her stomach and thought "oh oh". I calmly asked her where her pain was coming from and decided she needed to see the family doctor. They were able to see us 45 minutes later.
The appointment began like any other visit. We waited in the waiting room until her name was called. they measured her height and weighed her. Took her blood pressure and everything seemed normal. She gave her symptoms to the nurse and the nurse said "well, that sounds like the flu and it's going around". I told the nurse that she didn't say that she had sharp pains in her right side and the appointment quickly changed. The nurse said we should have came directly back and we saw the doctor pretty quick. He said since Bailey wasn't running a fever that they wanted to run a few quick labs on her to decide if she needed to see a surgeon but keep her out of the ER. The tests came back and they notified a surgeon. We were told the surgeon wanted to make sure that Bailey was suffering from appendicitis and not a cyst which wouldn't be surgical. We were sent to the hospital imaging center. They gave Bailey an ultrasound. The tech said she found Bailey's appendix which meant something was wrong as she typically can't seem them on ultrasounds so we headed up to surgery.
A few hours later our little girl was appendix free. Her pain was at a 10 as we arrived at the hospital. I felt horrible that I had let her go all day in pain like that. She's such a champ and never told us how much she was hurting. After the surgery she was groggy but said she felt much better. She asked for my phone to instagram a pic as soon as we saw her in recovery. A little over an hour after the surgery was over we were able to take her home!
It was such a long crazy day. I was incredibly grateful for modern medicine that easily relieved my little girl of a painful and serious infection. I was grateful that our other kids were home and watched over. I was grateful that she was able to come home with us that night and sleep in her own bed. I'm grateful that she is recovering quickly! A little too quickly as a few days post surgery she was caught back flipping on the trampoline...
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