Okay so for anyone that doesn't know, Derek can be stubborn. :-) I love that man, but he can definitely be stubborn. He started Thanksgiving night with really bad pain in his side. He thought that maybe he had gas from overeating or something. He came home and took some medicine for it and it didn't help. After a few days he thought maybe he was constipated, but it wasn't that either. Now for people that don't know, Derek has a kidney disease called IGA Nephropathy. Long story short: he found out because he was taking a drug screen for a job and they said he had large amount of blood and protein in his urine so we had all the tests done and they found out that it was it was. So when Derek started having blood in his urine again it really freaked me out because it was darker than I have ever seen it. I told him to set up an appointment with the doctor but he said he was fine and didn't like to go to the doctor so he wasn't going to go. So finally after almost two weeks of him being in pain, I called our doctor and set up an appointment and told Derek he was going to go no matter what. Derek finally grasped the situation of how serious something like this could be when he doctor started as he told me "what seemed almost to be running through his office yelling at people to get tests done". He thought Derek either had really bad kidney stones or his appendix had burst. He told him to get next door to the ER and get a CT scan done. He didn't want him to go anywhere else. So Derek listened and went over there. Within about an hour of checking into the ER he was being wheeled back to surgery. Derek's appendix had not just burst, but completely BLOWN up and he had abscesses that had grown in between the pieces. His surgeon kept telling him that he needs to listen to his wife and then she would turn to me and kept telling me that I should be burying my husband, not having him going in for surgery because it probably happened around Thanksgiving. Most people die within hours of their appendix being burst and here we are talking DAYS. So Derek went in and had to have his appendix removed the "old way", not laproscopicaly (they tried) because of it being blown up. We came to find out after he was out of surgery that is in one of only 10% of people in the world that their appendix is behind the colon instead of just dangling in front of it. For that reason it kept all the poison from it contained back there and that is the only reason he didn't die. We are all very glad he didn't die. :-)
One really cool thing that happened though when we were in there was we got to meet the real Santa and Mrs. Clause. This guy was AWESOME! He was Derek's roommate and he went in to have his knee replaced. I have never seen anyone that looked more like Santa in my life. His wife was always at the hospital helping him too so Derek and I started calling them Santa and Mrs. Clause (we did wait though until one of the nurses brought it up just after he came in asking him about his beard and how much it looked like Santa; we can't have people thinking we are crazy). So every time I came in to see Derek he would ask me how my boys were being and if they needed to be brought coal instead of presents or anything like that and then he would ask me if I had been a good girl too. It was fun and we all loved it. Anyway, Santa got to go home the day before Derek and before they left Mrs. Clause turned around and gave Derek a Christmas card. It still makes me cry to think about it even. When Derek opened the card they had written in it and they said: "Derek & Dana, Santa has been held up with shopping because he needed his knee to be fixed. If you could please help Santa & I out by going shopping for your boys it would really help him out. God bless you and your family and have a very Merry Christmas. Love, Santa and Mrs. Clause." Inside the card was $100.00 cash. It left me completely speechless that theses people that we had only met a couple of days before could be so very selfless to give us such a large amount of money. They truly were an answer to prayer and I still thank Heavenly Father for their generosity daily because it helped us out so much during a time that we had no money coming in. Needless to say we had and still have a lot to be thankful for from this whole situation. We definitely have been watched over.
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