Just Like Heaven: Who needs an appendix anyways?

James had to have an appendectomy? Say what?! Yes, it's true. Last Thursday he woke up complaining of stomach pains and he's not a big complainer. Being the manly man that he is, he went to work so I thought it must not be that bad then. He came home 2 hours later though and told me he had been laying on the ground at work taking phone calls because it hurt so bad. He went back to sleep for a few hours and woke up again and it just kept getting worse! He thought if he ate it would help and asked me to go out and get him a burrito. When I came back with it he refused to eat it and that's when I knew that the situation was no bueno! James doesn't refuse his favorite burrito! We took him into urgent care and he had some blood work done and the doctors also wanted to run a CT scan on him just to make sure it wasn't appendicitis. Unfortunately I couldn't be there with him the whole time. I had to leave him and go to work because no one could cover for me. I tried my best at work not to worry about James but once he called me and told me he had acute appendicitis and had to go into surgery there was no way I was gonna stay there!! Luckily someone finally came in to relieve me and I hurried over to the hospital he was at just a few blocks away. It was hard walking into the ER and seeing him hooked up to all kinds of equipment. It broke me down a little but James being the trooper that he is, lying in a hospital bed and all, was there to comfort me. I didn't want it to be that way so I perked up and did my best to support him. We even got to watch the first half of the Lakers-Celtics game together before he went in :) All during his surgery I think I checked the score every three minutes on my phone so I could tell him what happened as soon as he woke up! They won and I was so happy I'd be able to give him good news when he woke up! It was the first thing I told him when I saw his cute drugged up little face and he was so happy! It might have been because of the anesthesia, though ;)

He had to stay overnight so I stayed with him and he kept waking up saying how happy he was that the Lakers won. I think he was happier about the Lakers than the fact that I was there with him and that his surgery went fine!

His recovery has been unbelievable! We went to church just a few days later and celebrated Valentines Day on Monday by going out to get dinner at a Chinese restaurant called Shoots. He even got one of his friends to take him to the store while I was at work so he could have flowers for him when he got home.

What a guy!!!!

Hot James watching the game before heading into the O.R. (Work that hospital gown, boy!)

Later, inflamed appendix.

About an hour after surgery (STILL working that hospital gown)

Making up for lost burritos :) The nurses said it was okay for him to eat it and then came in once he was already done to tell him he actually shouldn't have... FANTASTIC!