Christmas Excitement (part 2)

So on Monday morning when we woke up Mom STILL had a terrible stomachache.  The crummy thing was that Adam (one of the TLC employees) did not go to work the night before and Mom and papa Eric didn’t find out until the morning so they had to go clean Homeport first thing in the morning so Mom had to vacuum the whole restaurant while she had this bad tummy ache and it hurt to the touch and she was generally feeling miserable.  When she got back from the restaurant she came back to bed and she told me that she was weirded out though by the fact that she had not thrown up, there had been no instances of needing to run to the toilet for ANYTHING (if you get my drift) so she could not figure out why the intense pain.  We were all supposed to go sledding up on Mt. Baker but it was STILL snowing in Bellingham so Gramma called to see if we were going to do it and Mom said that it was OK if we didn’t, and Gramma, being the smart cookie she is, knew that if Mom changed a tradition/plan and didn’t care SOMETHING was wrong so she asked what was up and Mom said she had this bad stomachache so just in case maybe she should not be on the top of Mt. Baker and we could just find a park or someplace. Gramma said Mom should go to the doctor but Mom kind of blew her off and said she would figure it out.  So the kids came in and visited, and Mom called some friends for advice, and Eric looked online for information and they thought maybe she was suffering from a gall bladder attach which would have made sense because Gramma doesn’t have her gall bladder anymore and Mom does everything she does…. So it came to be sledding time and Mom went sledding.  Well, went sledding is kind of a misnomer.  She went WITH everyone to go sledding, but she just stood around and took pictures of everyone.  She couldn’t tolerate the bumps on the hill so she just stood still.  Well, Gramma kept nagging and so finally Mom called the doctor and asked them and they said that it was too difficult to diagnose stomach stuff on the phone so she would need to be seen but they were going to close because of the snow so she would have to go to the urgent care clinic.  Well, if you know Mom, you know she hates doctors, and she will only see Dr. Gav so she said thanks, and decided not to go.  She figured she just had bad gas or something and could not see spending all the money for an urgent care visit when they would probably tell her to take some tums and go about her business.  And besides, on Tuesday the family was supposed to go to Seattle and to the Pacific Science Center (one of their FAVE places) and to the Melting Pot (Mom’s FAVE place) so she needed to get ready for that. So Auntie Heather invited everyone to her house for lasagna, and everyone left the sledding site to go get ready.  When Mom got home all she wanted to do was go back to bed so she came to take a little nap with me and then she decided after that maybe she should just go see because the pain just wasn’t getting better.  She said it was really weird, the whole tummy area was swollen up and it hurt EVERYWHERE but she didn’t have to throw up, didn’t have to go to the bathroom, and didn’t have a fever or anything.  She also couldn’t eat though and so I think that is why she finally decided to go.  She told papa Eric to drop her off at the clinic, take the kids out to Auntie Heather’s and come back and get her because she should be done by then (little did she know!!).  So that was her plan.  As we all know… plans don’t always work out.  But ever the optimistic, Mom got cleaned up, dressed to go to Auntie Heather’s house for dinner, got the kids ready, packed everyone in the truck and took off for the urgent care clinic.  That’s when everything got REALLY interesting.  Come back later to find out what happened… WITH PICTURES!!!