I'm NOT kidding.

Today we visited our "second home" (the ER) once again. I'm totally serious. That would make this the 6th visit on our furlough. Kind of scary, and you may wonder if ever there will be a good run for our family physically. We wonder the same thing. We pretty much had to laugh at the occasion...if we do anything else at this point it would be disastrous for sure. Jonathan woke up during the night with acute pain in his lower abdomen and right side of his lower back. He tried to carry on his morning by exercising and delaying in telling his wife of his concern. A late morning call to his physician then led to him advising Jonathan to get it checked out at the ER. So off we headed, skipping lunch and leaving the kids in the care of Munga. After Jonathan described his pain to the ER Doc he immediately diagnosed "kidney stones". It was kind of a relief to hear that, kind of not. Jonathan had a CT scan which did not reveal kidney stones in the kidney but there was a small mass in the ureter which most likely is a stone. He also had blood in his urine which is another indicator that this is what we are dealing with. Kidney stones do run in his family unfortunately. Pain meds were prescribed and we hope the passing of the stone will not be too painful if it has not already passed. They gave him some IV meds while there and he is worse off now because of those. He's not in pain, but he reacts so strongly to drugs that now we have a lump of a guy devoid of energy. I suppose all things considered there could be worse things to deal with, however we would prefer no new issues all together. We are still a "go" for our departure on Monday and ask that you pray for a quiet and uneventful weekend.