Today was an interesting day. We had been planning on celebrating Thanksgiving with my grandparents and a few aunts and uncles today. However, last Saturday, my cutie little brother Jamison went back to the hospital with pain and vomiting. They admitted him and thought he was having some post-op issues. We expected him to be there one night, maybe two. It turned out that he developed some kind of blockage that wasn't allowing him to digest, hence the continuous throwing up. They have been trying to get it worked out, slowly but surely.
Yesterday the doctor decided to shut down his digestive system completely and put the tube down his nose, to his stomach that sucks everything right out, and put in a pick line. (Both things he had right after his surgery two months ago. Very unpleasant. Last time though, he was still groggy from surgery when all these procedures were done. This time he was awake and miserable.) Matt and my brother Chris took the older boys to the dollar theater last night while I spent time at the hospital. (I swear I know every nook and cranny of that building). Poor Jamison was just miserable. Just discouraged that he is back where he was two months ago, discouraged that he will not be going to Uruguay on Weds. as planned.
Matt brought the boys back after the movie and we all visited with Jamison a while. The plan had been to go to my Grandparents then head back to the hospital and spend the rest of the day with Jamison. As we walked out of the hospital last night, we all looked at each other and decided that we would skip out on Thanksgiving this year in order to have someone with James all day. None of us would have any fun with him all bummed out. Since it would be several hours in driving time and eating to get to the grandparents, I decided at 8:30 last night, that I would make us a "fake"Thanksgiving dinner instead. So, luckily, I had a ham (which was supposed to be my contribution to Grandma's meal). And I think I put together a pretty decent meal, spur-of-the-moment. We had the ham, potatoes and gravy (the gravy was from a mix, I am not a good gravy maker.) layered jello, rolls, yams (sent down via my brother from Matt's sweet mother.) Mmm, what else, stuffing from a box, (ick) and pumpkin and chocolate cream pies. It all turned out pretty well. And this way, one of us was with James all day. Chris spent the morning there. Matt and the kids and I went over at noon and stayed until 2ish. We came back and ate and then Chris, David and I took some games over and stayed with him until he kicked us out at 9:30. We had so much fun telling stories and playing games. We even got James to crack a few smiles! We had a surprisingly fun, low-key day, pretty relaxing. For not turning out the way we planned! I hope everyone had a great day! (as you can see from the photo, we did not take a picture pre-eating. We were too impatient.
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Oh, I feel for Jameson. I can't imagine how miserable this has all been for him. I hope he is starting to feel better.
And that is some 'little' thanksgiving dinner that you whipped up! It sounds like you made a nice little feast for your family!
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