Craziest week ever

I am glad to see this week come to an end, it has been the CRAZIEST week – some good, some bad.

On Sunday, we went to a friend’s house to spend the afternoon while an open house was being held at our house. Smokey had a play date with their dog, Java, and loved playing with him and exploring their yard.

Not long after I’d eaten, my sister called – she had sharp pains in her abdomen and wanted to go to an ER but didn't want to drive herself. I went to get her and took her to an urgent care place - the first one we went to is only open Mon - Fri (what kind of urgent care is that?!?) We headed back towards another one she knew of, and thankfully they were open – she was in a lot of pain and so I just wanted to get her somewhere that could help her. We were there all afternoon and into the evening. They gave her fluids, and ran some test to determine what the problem was (we were guessing appendicitis), diagnosis: a kidney stone. They were able to prescribe pain killers and I took her home. I haven’t been so aggravated in quite a while as I was when we got to the first place and it was CLOSED, I go into ‘protection mode’ when I see someone I love in pain and was mad that we thought we were close to getting her where she could get help only to have it be a closed sign.

Her pain wasn’t getting any better during the week so she had an outpatient surgery on Thursday to have it removed. They weren’t able to remove it but did insert something to make it easier for her to pass it. She still has pain, but nowhere near the pain she had earlier.

The timing of when this happened was actually really good – any earlier and she’d have still been in school and had to work with her profs to make up the work, etc. tough to do when each class is only 6 weeks. If it had happened much later, we’d have moved and I would’ve had to recommend she get an ambulance to get her since it would get her to help much faster than I could, and it actually worked out being at our friend’s house since I was CLOSER to her then I was at home. A recommendation for everyone – make sure you know where your closest urgent care clinic is, it could come in handy when you least expect it. We call this week “the lost week” for my sis since she only left the house to go to doctor appointments

Now the good news from this week:

we got an offer on our house! We signed the paperwork to accept the offer on Wednesday night, and assuming all goes well we will be able to close in early September *fingers crossed*

We also got to see our new house on Friday, for the inspection. It is almost completely finished – the grass and landscaping are even done! There are still some things to be fixed – mostly found by the inspector, and we found where the missing towel rod and toilet paper holder are from our master bath. I noticed earlier that the finish doesn’t match the rest of the bathroom, and this time we saw that the ones in the guest bath have been installed. Turns out that is where they put them, so it should be an easy fix – just swap it. I forgot to take my camera, but will plan to bring it Tuesday for the walkthrough.