Surgery Anyone?

You, all three of you that read this, might be asking yourself... where has Alison been? What is she doing? Why isn't she blogging to give us updates on family life?

Let me tell you about my Monday:
 4:30am - wake up, get ready to take Eric to surgery
 5:30am - Bryan is up, I wake up Steve for school and Eric, Bryan and I go to the hospital for Eric's surgery
 6:15am - take Bryan to McDonald's because we needed breakfast and I needed coffee
 6:45am - go home, get the other two boys up for showers. Chris is going to school and Ray is going to the doctor's office since he's been sick
7:25am - take Bryan to school
7:50am - get home in time to say goodbye to Chris catching the bus
8:15am - finish tidying the house for when Eric gets out of surgery, take Ray to hospital for doctor's apt and to pick up Eric
9:30am - get call from Bryan's school, he needs something dropped off. See Eric out of surgery, give hug, drop Ray off at the clinic
10am - make it to Bryan's school
10:20am - go pick up Eric who is discharged and ready to leave. From there, go to clinic to pick up Ray
10:30am - find out doctor has a few issues with Ray's health
10:35am - take Ray to get his blood drawn (Eric is walking at this point by the way, two hours after surgery on his leg!)
10:45am - get more coffee for Eric and I. Take Ray for a CT scan
11:15am - get told that Ray has appendicitis and check him into the ER
12 pm - meet the nurses
1:45 pm - Eric decides he's well enough to drive. He goes to pick up Bryan
3 pm - get into a private room for the evening
4 pm - Ray gets taken to Pre-Op
4:30 pm - Eric picks me up to go get my car (since we only had the one that morning)
4:32 pm - get call from surgeon we need to sign another paper
4:35 pm - arrive back at hospital after turning around, go sign paper
4:45 pm - with Eric and Bryan go pick up dinner
5:20 pm - eat my second meal of the day
6 pm - get a change of clothes for Ray and some stuff I'll need, say goodnight to the boys
6:30 pm get back to hospital for the night. Ray came out of surgery
11:30 pm - finally get everything settled for the night at the hospital. go to sleep
12:15 am - Ray's alarm goes off, after that little or no sleep

So, that's a Monday for you. Ray and Eric are now home. Everyone is doing well. Ray has two weeks off of school and Eric has two weeks off of work. I am on my summer vacation... ha ha. I promised Ray no hospital pictures of him and I didn't have time to take ones of Eric. :) So, a rare picture of me... tired at around 10pm on Monday night.

I'm obviously on my side, I was pretty tired.

I'll make sure to keep everyone updated on people's progress. I'm sure everyone will be just fine! (Including me, after a VERY VERY long nap)