Hey there. I’ve decided to change things up and put my long ranty part at the bottom of this blog post and the pictures at the top. So if you are interested in reading about our recent health scare and why my week last week was AWEFUL, that’s below. For now, here are our recent pictures…
We’ve had the normal amount of busy since my last post and so these pictures were from Friday night, while Josh was at the USU/BYU basketball game with his brothers and dad and I was at my youngest brother, Tobin’s first swim meet. It was really fun and he did really well!
Traegan was pretty content to climb around on the bleachers.
Then he found a little friend. This cute little boy was dressed exactly how I dress Trae, had the same hair, and was super cute too. If he hadn’t been just a little bit taller than Trae, I’d have been very confused. And when Brandon got there, he rubbed the wrong little boys head. Ha!
Tobin in one of his events, he is in the middle lane in the yellow swim cap.
The last event that Tob swam, my mom held Trae since he was running with his buddy and I was trying to take pictures. Traegan chanted, "swim, swim, swim" the whole time. It was stinking cute.
And now on with the rant.
So here is the very short version of my crappy week last week. Josh started to have chest pains Wednesday afternoon. He was sure he was fine and it was this thing he had once as a teenager again. I was unconvinced. After a sleepless night he allowed me to make him a doctor’s appointment Thursday morning.
At the doctor we did lots of tests and finally ruled out heart attack, which was nice. But after some discussion, and some much needed information from Kathy, we found out we couldn’t rule out this thing he had had as a teen without an echocardiogram. (That thing is called Pericarditis and it is the swelling of the lining around the heart. Which puts pressure on the heart and chest and hurts like the dickens. It is caused by a viral infection, which for some reason settles in his chest.)
We couldn’t get in for an echocardiogram until Friday morning and after Josh consulted Lord Google, I had the LONGEST night ever. I was so sure that Josh was going to die. Not now, but in like 10 years and I had a mental breakdown. I’m not exactly in a normal mental state right now anyway and this was all just a bit much to handle.
Friday morning we headed to Logan and did the echocardiogram. We of course didn’t get the results right away so we had to wait around for a few more hours before we knew anything. Much later we met with a cardiologist and found out that… Josh would be fine! They put him on a really aggressive dose of Ibuprofen to make the swelling go down and help with the pain.
He was still in a lot of pain, but it gradually went away over the next two days and now he is back to normal. And the doctor assured me that this was a very rare thing and it may or may not happen again… in another 10 years. We also did some more testing to make sure that it won’t be a chronic thing that will kill him off. Good news there too!
So yeah, it was all a lot to handle for me. I blame that on the pregnancy, but truth be told, it was really scary and I can’t imagine my life without my best friend and love so it would have been hard no matter what. But all that really matters is that he is going to be fine.
It was kind of a nice reminder of how precious life is though. I am grateful to be reminded of how much my husband and my little family mean to me. It helps me to remember to not take them for granted and appreciate them everyday. The end.