Favorite Foto Friday #22 - PRAYERS PLEASE

Sorry this post is so late... but we could use some prayers for my mother, known as Nana to my kids. She was rushed by ambulance yesterday to the hospital for severe and unexplained abdominal pain. She is a nurse and as many of you know, nurses make the worst patients... so she was very sick to have called 911 herself to get there.

She has had many tests and everything came back as inconclusive, but the pain is still intense and it has begun to localize. They are thinking that she may possibly have had a blood clot or piece of arterial plaque break off and lodge in a small vessel in her intestinal track. They are going to do surgery in the morning to see what is going on and if there is some dead tissue or what might be causing the pain.

Please keep Nana in your prayers!

UPDATE - SATURDAY

Well, my mom had her surgery this morning... and they were able to find an adhesion from her hysterectomy several years back... it had left a band of sorts that her small intestine has managed to loop itself over. So, it was basically folding itself over this band of tissue. They were able to clip it and everything seems to have returned to its normal position post op. They will start her back on a liquid diet today to get everything up and running again, and hopefully, her pain will subside and she can go home when she feels better, possibly tomorrow.

Of course, she will have the shoulder pain from the laparoscopy to deal with over the next couple days as it works itself out of her body, but we have much to be thankful for! This was an easy fix, but something they would not have found unless they got in there to check things out.

Thank you so much for your prayers! I am on my way back to the hospital and hopefully will get some time to check in with everybody's FFF posts later this evening!

UPDATE - SUNDAY

Nana is home and besides feeling like she has been hit by a Mack truck, all is well. Thank you so much for your prayers. Life is good!

I know I owe you some pictures of our trip and I have a couple more fun things to post as well!!

Here are a few pictures of my mom for my FFF!

On our visit trip to meet Sophie in July 2005


Sophie~Bug and her Nana - September 2006


At the pumpkin patch helping her little princesita - October 2007


And this past Christmas receiving her Christmas present from her grandbabies.


I will not have time to link everybody's FFF this week until things settle down here. If you leave a comment, I will try to get links up later this weekend - sorry... will post links again next Friday. Hard to keep up with all my blogging friends and I know I haven't commented, but starting to catch up with everybody!

Love and always FROGging!!

Sarah