Excuse Me, Is There And Orthopeadic Doctor In The House?

Tipton was up at 5:10 this morning. He couldn't sleep any more, he said. So we came downstairs and ate breakfast. He played with his Spiderman sticker book. I folded laundry. Then I put on Scooby Doo 2 for him and I came in and turned on the computer. I had an email from Dave. It said
"Hi Jenn,
Good morning. I am not online because i seem to have a kidney stone.
Anyway i am now waiting to have an x-ray. I will keep you informed.
Text if you need to reach me. I love you! Love, Dave"

Lovely. My son has a broken arm and my husband is in a hospital on the other side of the world with a kidney stone. I'm almost afraid to let Lilli out of my sight. He didn't even say which hospital he was in, Lund or Malmö. Our friend, Betsy, was online. Her husband works with Dave. I asked her if she knew which hospital Dave was in. She had her husband IM with me. Turns out Dave was in Lund. He'd had a co-worker drive him to the hospital.

Lilli woke up around 7:45. I was sitting at the computer (updating the blog, actually) and Lilli walked in clutching her Fancy Nancy dress to her chest and smiling sweetly. So of course I helped her to put on the dress. Then she ate breakfast.

Kay got up around 8:30, and at 9:00 she called the ortho doctor that "unfroze" her shoulder to see if we could get Tipton in to see him. We couldn't - mainly because that doctor didn't deal with arm fractures. He is a shoulder and knee doctor. However, Tipton could be seen by another doctor in the practice on Tuesday at 11:15 - a doctor who specializes in hands, wrists and arms. We were a little disappointed that he couldn't be seen today, but booked the appointment and asked that the doctors assistant call us so that we could ask a few questions. In the meantime, I called the next ortho doc on our list. That doctor wasn't in this week, but his nurse practitioner could see Tipton at 1:15 that afternoon. After much consideration we decided to wait until Tuesday. As much as I wanted his arm set sooner rather than later, I also wanted him to be seen by an orthopedic specialist.

Dave called to let me know that he had been released from the hospital. He did in fact have a kidney stone. They took a high resonance xray to confirm it. The stone is about 3mm and right next to the bladder. The pain had subsided and they had given him a prescription for something to help manange the pain (if/when it returned.)

Later that day Kay and I loaded up the kids to run a few errands. Our last stop was Lane Bryant - the one and only thing that I needed to do for ME while we are here in the US. Both kids fell asleep in the car on the way there. When we go there Lilli woke up and was her bouncy, energetic self. Tipton woke up just barely enough to walk into the store, lie down on the couch by the dressing rooms and fall back asleep. He slept the entire time we were there.

Tipton woke up just as we were leaving. And since he and Lilli had been so good while I was trying on clothes, we decided to run down and get them both new sticker books to play with during dinner - we were meeting Papa at Foster's for burgers/hot dogs. Tipton chose a Pokemon sticker book with over 600 stickers. Lilli chose a Fancy Nancy sticker book. Lilli wasn't very hungry (she'd eaten a lot of bunny crackers while I was trying on clothes) so she stood at the end of the table and entertained us all by dancing.

It was a very productive day - we got Tipton an appointment with an orthopedic specialist and I got some new clothes!