3rd Times The Charm

It has been so hard for me this past month to not be writing and sharing pictures with everyone. Long story short, I had surgery which should have been a simple routine hysterectomy that turned into nothing routine. I had some complications during surgery then ended up with pulmonary embolisms and to top it off I ended up septic with pneumonia and a kidney infection. I am now on oxygen and have no bladder control. I think I went from being 36 years old to 80 in about a week. I'll save you any more details even though some of them are so funny they would challenge your bladder control. I will do a better update with some of my hospital pictures later, I still need to download them.

The rest of the family is doing okay. I have definitely put them through the ringer. We tried to keep as much as we could from our boys so they wouldn't worry but as time goes on I have shared a little more with them. They are finally okay with leaving me and going places without having a meltdown. That has been the hardest part of all of this, seeing what I have been putting my family through.

Both boys started orientation for school this week and will begin their classes next week. I think we are all excited to see how this is going to work. We have everything set up and ready for them and our dinning area is now more a classroom. I'm okay with that as long as it means my boys get a good education. At least orientation has been going well and they are getting a better sense of how their classes and lessons will work.

I need to thank everyone who has been praying for me and my family. I know without a doubt that I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for all of your prayers and the priesthood blessings that I received. I am so thankful to have so many faithful people around me. Thank you for your cards and gifts and to all of you who brought in dinners for us. We appreciate everything that has been done on our behalf. I'm pretty sure that there are Temples in the Salt Lake Valley and in Colorado (and maybe other places) that began to wonder who this Rachelle person was. Going through this process has not been easy but I know that all of my family has been watched over and protected while we went through it. I am so thankful for my knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the comfort it gave to me and all that was around me while I was in and out of the hospital. Without this knowledge and the gifts that come from it I have to say again that it was these gifts that have kept me alive so I could be here for my family.