Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Happy 6 months, Tyler!
I can't believe my baby is 6 months old. I am a little saddened that the time has gone by so fast. I just want him to stay the same little man from now on. He has changed so much in the last six months. He brings so much love and joy into our lives. Here are a few cuties he has done in the last month:
He has started teething and is infatuated with cardboard and paper.
He started eating baby food...
but getting use to the taste of rice cereal took a while.
His hair grew a little longer and fuller and gets crazy after wearing a hat.
He's always a cool kid...
and he has some cool stuffed friends that stay by his side.
He never misses that opportunity to play and have fun.
Most importantly, he never misses the opportunity to laugh.
We love you, Tyler.
Monday, January 28, 2008
A Sad Passing.
I was so extremely saddened to hear about our beloved Prophet's passing. President Gordon B. Hinkley was the most wonderful prophet. He was a prophet during the most important and influential part of my life and I felt the spirit so much when he spoke. I feel peace in knowing that he is now with his beloved wife, but at the same time my heart aches because I loved him so much as a prophet and leader and I just want to hear him speak one more time. As a man of 97 years old, he was so young at heart and always made others laugh. I will never forget this wonderful man, but I know that he fulfilled the work that he was supposed to on this earth and now Heavenly Father has a much greater work for him to do.
Friday, January 18, 2008
When bad food gets served.
As told by Eric:
A quick trip to buy a studying table at Ikea was unsuccessful and the non-furniture related side effects lingered a bit too long. We did our usual thing, taking advantage of the Ikea restaurant, with Kelly having a chicken pasta meal and myself with their classic meatball and mashed potato entrée –thank goodness we had different meals. Then we went about our business looking for a table and sadly finding out that it was out of stock. I got food poisoning from my dinner, and fought the pain for hours thinking it was simply an upset stomach or diarrhea. I struggled through a mostly sleepless night and at 3:30am I was throwing up and hoped that this would take care of the problem. Sadly, it persisted and got worse. I ended up wallowing in pain and nausea waiting by the toilet to vomit a 2nd time. Kelly awoke and found me doubled over in pain on the floor of the downstairs bathroom. I am hesitant to go to emergency rooms, but Kelly suggested it and I had already started to convince myself that I should go.
The trip to the hospital was HORRIBLE, every bump and movement was greatly accentuated and it took all of my concentration or distraction ability to keep my mind off the nausea and pain. Even before we left I was starting to feel light headed and then going along it got worse, and then my hands started to go numb, was I close to passing out? We made it. Luckily the hospital is not busy at 6am, so I got in and in about 40 minutes had an IV hooked up for 2-liters of fluids to relieve my dehydration. I was also given a dose of nausea medicine, but it wasn’t in my system soon enough and I again emptied my stomach contents. I was also given a dose of narcotics but it was not enough, so I was given a second one soon after. At that point I was finally feeling relief and I closed my eyes to catch up on sleep as we waited for blood test results. Everything checked out okay and the last throw-up got the remainder of the bad food out which stopped the problem. We went home and I napped for a few hours before I got up and went to school for my lab class. For the next week I felt the post-effects of food poisoning. I bruised my right kidney when I was vomiting, so it was quite sore for about 3 days. My stomach was sore for several days as well and my stools were not right until about the 6th day. Between the food poisoning and strong doses of Motrin, I had intestinal bleeding causing dark, black stole for several days. Thankfully, it is over and I am feeling much better. Eating out, you never know when you’ll consume the meal that was not prepared right. Thankfully food poisoning is much rarer here than if I lived in other countries
Love,
Eric
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