Even though we were just out in Utah in April (has it really been 2 months already?!?), we went there again last week for yet another wedding. This time with the Chai family. YAY JER! We're glad to have Emily join our family. Now the Chai family has two Emily's. Jer's wife Emily and my little Emily. Even though it was a shorter trip than last time, it was more eventful. We had some fun on Wednesday going bowling and such and then on Thursday I went to see my mom's dad who is in a nursing home. He is 90 and he shattered his first 3 vertebrae but surprisingly he survived and didn't damage his spinal cord. I do not do well in hopsitals and seeing people hooked up to all sorts of wires. Because of that, I got sick and once I was able to get up off the bathroom floor and out the door, I spent most of the visit in the waiting room. My brother David works there and was at work when it happened and came by just to call me a little green monster. Apparently I looked as bad as I felt.
That night both my family and Mike's family went up the canyon to take family pictures. Right before we left, Emily was running a fever so I gave her Motrin and off we went. Once up the canyon (thankfully very near the Provo canyon entrance), she ran around and had lots of fun, not wanting to take time for pictures. Once pictures were done, we all went to a pavillion and ate dinner. Emily got so cold that she was shaking (silly be didn't think to bring jackets even though Utah was freezing compared to Texas) and so I sent her to Mike's aunt's house (who lived right on 8th north) with Mike and the rest of his family while I finished cleaning up dinner. (Mike went because he hadn't been feeling good the whole trip.) As we were all getting loaded into the cars, Mike called me and asked if I could get there right away because Emily was acting really sick and he thought that she had passed out. We rushed into cars and I was rushed to Mike's aunt's house where we got into another car and drove Emily to Timpanogos Hospital. During the car ride I found out what had happened. Mike was holding Emily and he felt a wet spot on his arm like she was throwing up, which wasn't normal for her, and he picked her up to help her out and she just went limp. He took her into the kitchen where there was more light and she was limp with her jaw clenched extremely tight and her eyes were rolled back in her head. Right around the edges of her lips were turning blue and she wasn't breathing. They tried to get her to wake up and Mike's uncle, a big Tongan man, took her and held her somewhat upside down and hit her back a few times. She finally woke up after that and was very disoriented for a few minutes. Mike's mom said that her arms had been really rigid too and held up tight to her body. They gave her a blessing as I was on my way there and when I got there she was crying and was just inconsolable. After getting to the ER and once we were in a room, she finally relaxed and fell asleep on my shoulder just in time for the doctor to come in. We described what happened and he said that she had had a febrial (fever) seizure. Her temp. was 100.7 degrees but he said that how high the tempurature is isn't what determines whether they have a seizure or not. It's how fast the tempurature rises. So he looked in her left ear and said that she had a raging ear infection. Poor baby hadn't even complained about her ears hurting. Once back to my parents house, she was acting normal again and running around thanks to the medicine and she fell to sleep quickly.
Friday was the wedding and it was great. Sadly, we got there and I found out that my recommend had expired at the end of May. Luckily Mike was able to be there and that's what really matters since it was his brother getting married. Saturday was the reception in Kanab, which was beautiful (the reception, not the town) and we got back home that night at 3 am. Woo hoo. Then Sunday we came home. Two flights. The first flight was late taking off and later landing but Daniel and Emily slept for the majority of those flights. YAY!!! Our connecting flight waited for us! YAY!!!!!!!!!!! As soon as we got off one plane, we were rushed over to our next flight and sent straight to our seats without even showing our tickets. One great thing about being the last one's on the plane is that there was no wait to get going. As we were waiting to get off the first plane, Daniel, who had refused to eat lunch, was feeling very sick. We finally got home just after midnight and was getting Daniel food when he proceeded to throw up. He ate and then took some medicine for his fever and we all went to bed.
Today we went to the doctor and Daniel has strep throat. Yay! And his ears hurt because he had very hard compacted ear wax in them that refused to be flushed out. The good thing is that Emily is getting better and she's already on antibiotics and so she shouldn't get strep. I really hope they all get better soon. Another good thing is that we are closing on our house this Friday!!! I'm so excited!! But instead of moving in this weekend, we're going to wait a week or two so that we can get all the cleaning and little repairs done before we move in. I'm so excited that we are getting a house.
I'll put up pictures soon, once things have settled a little.
