I guess technically we started 2024 with emergency oral surgery for Aaron! The week of our family "staycation" started with an abscessed tooth and then extraction for Aaron.
He spent most of his only week of vacation all year like this, in quite a bit of pain and then recovering from oral surgery. Disappointment is an understatement! We made the best we could of it, and still were able to surprise the kids with an overnight trip to the Great Wolf Lodge (although Aaron couldn't do any of the slides).
Grace took her turn with several visits to the dentist. One side effect of Celiac's is poor teeth. She had to have several baby teeth pulled, either because they had cracked or permanent teeth were growing above them. She isn't a big fan of the dentist, but she was so brave and did such a good job!!
August saw Aaron back for oral surgery on yet another tooth extraction. This one he decided to have an implant put in, so that was a bit more of a process in extracting and putting the post in at the same time.
I tried to convince him not to text anyone until he was a little less loopy, but he didn't listen. His friends and co-workers were quite entertained! He didn't remember anything he said or did for about 5 hours after surgery.
September showed up with really strange hives and rashes for Jacob, all over his body. We still don't know what caused them but definitely caused some panic when he texted me and said, "My lips and tongue are twice their normal size."!!! They eventually went away, and we still don't really know what caused them, except the possibility that it was from the mold.
And November, exactly 12 years to the day since his last ones, brought Aaron 2 big kidney stones! This time, one in each kidney which will require 2 separate surgeries. He waited for over 3 hours in pre-op before his first surgery. Last time they did lithotripsy, which is an external use of sound waves to break up the stones. This urologist uses an internal laser to break up the stones and remove them.
It was a much more difficult recovery the first 3 days. The stent between his kidney and bladder caused horribly painful spasms every time he went to the bathroom. They gradually lessened and 3 days later he was, of course, back to work all day!
The long hallway in the cabin makes for a good walking track for the recovering patient! Now he gets to wait another week before they'll remove the stent and then he gets to go through it all again to remove the other kidney stone!
All of this (and to be honest, I'm probably forgetting something!) in the midst of my health problems, Anna's injury at work & her very hard, long recovery, finding all the mold in our house, moving out, and all the regular ups and downs of life without a health crisis left & right!
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