Wow, talk about a whirlwind of events over the weekend and one being the weather! Started out near 100 degrees on Friday and Saturday! The kids were able to do much of the water activities these two days at least...fishing, swimming, waterslides, new bumper boats, etc etc etc. Gabi brought a friend who has NEVER been camping...Nikki Strohl. She experienced alot of firsts including camping itself, pudgie pies and fishing!
Love this pic of Gabi fishing!
Saturday was the Notre Dame game. Ben was disappointed that we couldn't get the channel at our site but a fellow ND fan down the road had satellite and said Ben could watch it on their tv. He took him up on it, but only til half time. They weren't looking so good and dinner was to be fixed so he came back to listen to it on the radio. That night the front blew in. It brought a storm that prevented us from enjoying the campfire and rained pretty much all night. Ben started feeling a bit sick. Pain in his chest and back, chills and fever. We kind of thought maybe an inner ear infection when he said he was dizzy. He had gotten water in his ear weeks ago and has been complaining that he couldn't hear out of it. He stayed in bed most the evening while we took the girls to the dance. No dance is a dance without YMCA!
Sunday morning he got up and was worse. We had continued to give him aleve but it just wasn't kicking it. The dizziness and chest/back pain was worse. Chad talked us into going to Urgent Care to try and get some meds so maybe he could feel better by Tuesday.
Chad watched the girls on Sunday afternoon while I took him to Urgent Care. Apparently the key words are "chest pain" because when Ben said that we were bumped up ahead of about 20 people and we were also rushed to the emergency room. The staff thought Ben was having a heart attack. This seemed a bit far fetched but as I sat and thought about it...it really could have been. We are NOT that young anymore. I have heard of people our age having heart attacks. But Ben was healthy as a horse. He walks all day at work, he doesn't eat bad. I just didn't get it. We waited it out after several tests...blood tests, chest x-ray, ct scan. Basically they were ruling everything out. No pulmonary embolism, no pneumonias...they took one more blood test and it was normal showing no heart attack. We left with no more answers than what we arrived with. They told us to follow up with a cardiologist for stress test next week. We went back to the camper with Ben feeling a bit better (after morphine) and we decided to proceed with our bean soup and cornbread supper! By this time it had dipped down into the lower 70s and was quite windy so it was the perfect weather for this type of meal. We lit up the fire and had dinner.
Ben had a bit to eat but decided to lay down again. I could tell he was still not up to par.
Monday morning came and it was down right cold. In the 50's so the girls really didn't want to do much but stay in the camper and play "Sorry."
Ben was still sick and layed in bed all morning til I decided to just go ahead and start packing up to head home after we gave the girls something to eat for lunch.
They snuck in a ride on the Boo Boo Express with the little ones and we were off for home. Ben made it, but barely. He was hurting on that ride home. I was determined to get him into the doctor the next day.
A good weekend besides the sickness...the weather was not too bad and the girls got to get in all they wanted to do. We are finished camping this year at Yogi (Fremont)...until next year... :)
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