May 2025 Final Recap (ER and Aubree back)

May ended up being a much busier month than anticipated. On Monday, May 12th, Will got his braces off, which he was happy about.  We let him choose where to have dinner and he chose Texas Roadhouse. That was the beginning of craziness for the month and we had no idea.  The next day, Tuesday Jake woke up sick and I called into work for him. He had been sick through the night.  That afternoon, he felt prompted to go to urgent care and had the thought "gallbladder".  He want and the physician told him it sounded like gallbladder issues or kidney stones and ordered an ultrasound for the following day.  On Wednesday, he felt well enough to go back to work and after school he went for his ultrasound. His stomach was not 100% bet he felt it was probably just filling back up and nothing more. Thursday was a typical day but Friday after lunch, he received a call while at school from the urgent care telling him the ultrasound results show gall bladder issues and he needed to go to the Emergency room and not go through the weekend with it.  Reluctantly, he left work and picked up the ultrasound results to take to our primary care doctor, who also saw the results and said to go the ER to request a CT Scan and will most likely go into surgery for the gall bladder to be removed.  He called me and I took the remainder of the day off work to take him.  Our Friday evening (over 7 hours) was spent in the ER, with about 5.5 of those in the waiting room. But I was able to chat with several people and let people borrow my phone charger since we had anticipated to spend the night, I had a couple.  We were finally called back to a room and a CT Scan ordered. The results came back good and no issues.  

Now, I shared that to lead to this point- God is a God of miracles!  I feel that Jake has extra protection as he serves diligently as bishop. Our family receives blessings. Now when he is released, we may have thyroid and gall-bladder issues, but for now, the Lord sees fit to have him serve and keep him healthy.  We have no explanation as to why the ultrasound showed something entirely different than the CT Scan and why two medical doctors, said go to the ER, except for but GOD. He watches over us and is a God of tender mercies and miracles. 

The month of May began with 5 of us at home and is ending with 6 of us at home. On Saturday, 5/24, I flew out to get Aubree. We left her apartment in Logan about 8:00am Sunday for our 1600 mile trek and arrived in Memphis about 6:15pm on Monday 5/27.  It was a very hard decision for her and she still hopes to get into the Utah State nursing program (she is currently an alternate).  The first weekend of May, she had told us she had decided to stay in Utah and attend Weber State. This decision would require student loans, and attending UTHSC would not, but we let her choose. On Tuesday (4/29) before we boarded the plane for Florida, we went over cost by cost for her between Weber State's nursing program and UTHSC's nursing program.  UTHSC should be debt free but Weber State would be over $10,000 debt was our best guess.  However, on Friday night when she had called to tell us she was staying in Weber and get her ADN, we said okay. However later that night, I looked up and discovered that Weber was an Associates degree, something she had failed to mention.  So Jake called and had a stern conversation with her.  Yes, it is dumb to go into debt for a lesser degree but we were most upset she withheld that information from us.  We were under the impression this entire time, it was a BSN like Utah State and UTHSC. Long story short, the next week she withdrew and on Sunday 5/18, she said we could come get her on 5/25 to come home for the summer (in hopes of the alternate position opening at USU) or to plan to attend school here as she has been accepted. It worked out because my parents were driving back from ID this same week and were able to grab a couple totes as well.  I know it is not ideally what she wants and I hope she does not have hard feelings for us but I almost feel it was a catch 22...she would be upset if we pushed for her to come back home and attend school or in the future upset because we did not push for it if debt was acquired.  Regardless, I am glad she is here for now and hope she finds joy in whatever course her path becomes. 

I like when he sends me photos too.....I'm a blessed lady!