**crazycrustacean**

Sueball1

Hey sweets....

 Saw your page this morning (afternoon, LOL... we slept in and since I'm on PST, the day is pretty much over for you, isn't it?) and wanted to just give you the 411. Basically, my mom had to have emergency surgery this past Monday night for a "twisted intestine". It was pretty serious - they had to remove a lot of her small intestine and "reattach" it - and it has been kinda touch-and-go for the past few days, with anemia and a blood transfusion happening on Wednesday.... Things seem to at least not be getting any worse as of yesterday and she sounded a tiny bit better, so I am cautiously optomistic...if all goes well she should be out of the hospital in a week or so and then will be recovering at home w/a full time nurse for about a month.

I have been a wreck for several reasons - 

1. Biggest reason - I am just so worried and I hate that I can't be there with my family. None of them want me to risk traveling at 38 wks and in fact they are so worried about "stressing me out" that no one tells me anything, they just call DH and I have to hear it from him. It sucks.

2. If she is ok, that is the most important thing - but I know she is really depressed that she will be missing the birth, the bris, and all the excitement of her first grandchild. It breaks my heart to see her both in pain and heartbroken.

3. Selfishly, I hate that I won't have my mommy (or dad, for that matter) with me for this exciting and scary time. My ILs are stepping up and coming in earlier/staying later than planned, but obviously, that may cause more stress than help, you know?

So, Thanksgiving sucked this year. We just went to a friend's house for an "orphan's" GTG, which was nice and all... i just am having a rough time staying positive with all this crap. 

That's probably more than you wanted to know...sorry...:(

How are you? How was Meredith's first big holiday??