Gall Bladder, Appendix, and Many Thanks

This past Friday, Natalie was in to the Vail Valley Medical Center (which by the way has been FANTASTIC every time we have been there) to have her gall bladder removed. It has been giving her some grief for a while now. Long story short, upon looking at her innards with the scope, the doctors could see something that was up next to her gall bladder that wasn't supposed to be there. Turns out it was her appendix. It had somehow shifted up into her upper abdomen area. So when they removed her gall bladder, they also removed her appendix to eliminate any future problems with it. 2 for the price of 1.
I took her to the hospital at 7 am... the question leading up to this was what to do with Cayle? Natalie had it set up originally so Jess would stay the night on Thursday and then take him to daycare at 730. Melinda would pick him up at 1230 since it was a friday, and he only stays till 1230 on fridays. Then when Melinda had to leave for x-country practice, Alana would come stay with him for the evening.... That was if everything didn't go according to pan. We were planning on being home by early afternoon.
So after all that was planned, my cousin Jodi, who lives in Denver, offered to come out with her just over a year old son Nathan and watch Cayle. We took her up on it and it was FANTASTIC! Thanks so much Jodi! Natalie ended up not recovering very quickly from her anasthesia and decided to spend the night in the hospital. It was so nice for me to be able to come home for a bit and hang out with Cayle and Nathan, then to be able to go back to the hospital to be with my wife. So much better for him to be able to stay in one place with one person, then to have to be shipped all over the place with different people. Jodi coming to watch him definitely made it much easier on us!

Natalie is feeling well now, and is ready to return to school. She spent Monday just being a mom and staying home with her baby boy.