Well, our family is one gall bladder short now. Last week we spent the week at Vanderbilt hospital dealing with this tiny organ. It should be a rule that all organs that you can live without, not be able to cause pain. Why do you even exist? Good news is that Skye is doing much better and is on the road to recovery. In fact, while I type this, he is at his first Apple shift since surgery. We wanted to send out a huge note of gratitude to all of you that came to visit us at the hospital and checked in over the past week. We felt very loved and knew if we needed it, we had help. We also wanted to extend a huge word of praise and thanks to my dad. He really came through in babysitting for us. We had to call on him about 10:30pm and he came over and slept on the couch while we sat in the ER all night. He then remained on call the rest of the week, while I made trips back and forth to Nashville. I think it really gave him some good time with Britain though. They know each other a lot better now.

Well, for those that don’t follow me on Twitter, I have been doing this new detox. It’s not officially a “detox” but it’s just called a “no-crap” diet. I started off one week alongside the group from The Biggest Loser and figured I’d give it a go. All I had to do was no dairy, no preservatives (all that stuff you can’t pronounce on labels), no meat, no caffeine and no alcohol. Let me tell you the first week was rough. I was HUNGRY. But I felt really good that I made it through. I felt healthy and pro-active about my current physical state and in fact, I lost about 6 pounds. I’ve decided to try eating this way for about 5/7 days of the week. I get weekends off. I’ve motivated some friends to do the same and Skye even jumped on board. Well, the days that he ended up eating some fast food, he realized that’s when he was having his gall bladder attacks. So, this “detox” was able to help us pinpoint symptoms and etc. I guess there were more advantages than we thought, huh.

Well, that’s really what’s been going on in our world lately. We are all back at work this week and so just keep praying for Skye’s recovery progress. We go back Wednesday to Vandy to have things checked out again.

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