How it All Started.....

Melanie traveled from Australia to Arizona to be reunited with Sarah's brother Dean.Sarah and Melanie hit it off right away,laughing all the way home imagining the look on Dean's face when he got the BEST birthday surprise,Melanie!Three weeks past and Dean and Melanie were engaged! This was bitter -sweet moment,this was the last time they would see each other.So in an attempt to keep in touch,motivate each other they have created this blog,sewing projects,room decorating,book clubs,weight management,recipe swaps,etc.....We hope you enjoy!
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Whats up with Mel

Welllllll, I had a fun 3 weeks, and this is what happened.....Three weeks ago on a Friday (the weekend of Lillies birthday) My husband (Sarahs brother) pulled his car up into our drive way, very close to the door and kinda rolled out of the car. He came inside in a huge amount of pain and couldn't breath, move or talk. We called an ambulance and off to the hospital he went. I would normally get my mother over to sit with the kids in these kind of emergencies but she was getting off a plane from Ireland (visiting my sister), So i packed up the kids and off we went to the hospital. Hours later and some pain meds they sent us home with antibiotics, panadene forte and said it was a bad chest infection. The following Tuesday We raced him back to the hospital with only 1% oxygen in his blood and 40% lung capacity, they said he had pneumonia. 3 days later he was transferred from the ICU ward at our local Hospital to the Royal Hobart Hospital 4 1/2 hours away. So I called in my mummy, she held the forte here for a week and i took 2 children (we have 5) with me on a road trip. I spent the next week dragging two kids into a city with a GPS in the middle of a very cold winter, to be with Dean. Dean on the other hand over that week had drains put in him, taken out, oxygen, specialists, and finally a pretty serious lung surgery procedure to break down the walls between the bubbles of liquid. 2-5% of people that get pneumonia have this complication apparently. Any way we are back home now with Dean off work for 6-8 weeks. Wow!! and that was the short story there was actually more in between..... quick fix meals, do what you can cleaning (as i am a nurse now too) yep i can focus on that.
Mel

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