Russell Family: November 2009

Sunday, November 8, 2009

EKG-Heart Shocking

Last night was a long night. Chauncy woke up yesterday morning about 5 am and didn't feel the greatest but didn't think anything of it and went to work. he worked 12 hours then came home and was complaining he couldn't catch his breath and his heart felt funny. we got out the stethoscope and I even could tell that something wasn't right. So I told him to call Brother Burns (in our ward) who is a cardiologist and ask him if he would be willing to listen to you. Chauncy couldn't decide if he wanted to call him or just talk to him at church because it was 9:30 pm, well he decided to call him and he gladly agreed to listen to him. He went over and about 20 min later he came home and said we need to go to the hospital Bro Burns wants me to go get an EKG. So we called D2W (chauncy's unit) and they said they had a bed open and could do the EKG there. we faxed the results to Bro Burns and got on the road to go home. Well we got almost to the I19 which is about 1/2 way home and we get a call from D2W saying Bro Burns called and said we needed to go to the ER because he was in A-Fibrilation which means his heart wasn't beating right. so we got to the ER and they got us right in. they did another EKG and put us in an ER room. they did blood work to see if they could see why his heart was beating like that but everything came back normal. they could have givin him some chemicals to see if that would get it beating right but the Doc didn't like that idea because it doesn't always work so he gave us another option to use the Defibrillator to shock his heart for Cardio Version. Chauncy didn't want to do that because he knew it would hurt like crazy. but they said they put them under for about 10 min and shock him and then would wake up. so we decided to do that and do it right the 1st time because they said if they took baby steps it could go backwards instead of making it beat right. We got to the ER at 10 pm and they shocked him at 4:30 am. and everything went just and it should have. It was amazing I could even tell on the monitors that it was beating much much better. I went home at 5:30 and Slept for 2 hours and then Chauncy called at 7:30 saying he was ready to leave. which was surprising because at 1st they told us they would keep him for 24 hours after they used the defibrillator then they told us they would only keep him for 6 hours after well after all said and done they only kept him for 3 hours . we have to follow up with a cardiologist on Monday or Tuesday. I hope they can figure out why his heart did that. Thanks to Kelli and Andy (who just had a baby a week ago) kept our boys for us. I took Morgan but kept her covered up like crazy. It his hard when you don't have family around to help out. but thanks to good friends it worked out well.

he was saying how his cold sore hurts too.

Its no fun seeing your hubby like this

Hunting/Camping/Halloween

Chauncy got drawn for Mule Deer this year with JJ and Steven, So they talked us wives to go out with them and camp. So we decided we would and so my mom and Dad and Jodi also came. It was fun having everyone there. The guys would get up early early and go out hunting and us girls and dad would just hang out at camp and check on the little boys and Kashlee every once in a while because they were just having so much fun being outside and being able to do what ever they wanted. They played buckin Bulls with the saddles. Went on little hikes and made creative swings with Aunt Jodi. She is the BEST aunt ever. We LOVE YOU!!! The little boys even got to go with the big boys out looking for deer, but from their report they only saw does. Us girls just stayed bundled up and hung out at camp and every once in a while we would go on a ranger ride. Jodi took mom, Aiden, Kashlee, Morgan and I on one of the roughest rides I have ever been on but it was fun to be able to talk and have fun. The weather was cold and windy so we kept Morgan and Cheyanne bundled up so much that they would get mad because they couldn't move. If the wind wouldn't have blown it would have been perfect. it warmed up on Sunday and Monday but the bad thing is the bees came. On sunday my family and Steven's family went on a Ranger ride to look for Chauncys Walkie Talkie that he lost luckily we found it and went we got back to camp at around noon we had to pack some stuff up and leave camp because the bees where so bad. so we headed over to the hay fields over in Bonita and looked for deer. we saw a bunch of does but no bucks. it was fun seeing some deer at least. we left at dark and went back to camp and cleaned up all the sodas and candy that was left out hoping the bees wouldn't come back. we woke up Monday morning to yep you guessed it bees. so Cim and I got snacks and toys and went up the road a little bit to escape the bees. Chauncy and Steven showed up around 1:30 to help us pack up to leave and they saw us away from camp so they asked what happened and we told them camp was full of bees so they left us there with the kids and started to pick up camp. about 3 hours later bees started attaching us again up where we were so I walked down to where the guys were and got the ranger and we went for a ride. we ended up leaving around 4:30-5:00.
Dad, JJ, Marlo, Justin and Kashlee left on Saturday to go back for the trunk or treat and the rest of us were going to just to Halloween out there and do our own trick or treat. Chauncy and Steven took Seth and Riley out with them hunting and didn't get back until dark and we still needed to do dinner so we decided we would just to our trick or treat in the morning. which was a good idea because there was a road around camp that we set up around for the kids to trick or treat around and there is no way they would have done it at dark plus we were able to see their cute costumes. I just made my costumes cuz I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a costume so I dressed Seth as a bar of soap (Seth says he was Mr. Bubbly) and Preston was Jelly Beans. they turned out pretty cute. Riley was Spiderman and Aiden was a frog. and Morgan and Cheyanne were cute little flowers. I think the kids had fun and they definitely got more and better candy then they would have at the trunk or treat. all in all it was a fun weekend.
We alll went home on monday but we decided to go out on Wednesday with Gavin since he come down to see us and we needed some thing to do. so we went out again and got a buck just before dark. Seth was all in to gutting it out, he wanted in on it. It didnt gross me out like I thought it would. we even saved the heart, Kindneys, liver and lungs for Jodi to take back to her anatomy classes. oh what a week.