home-- home again

Krissy and the baby are home now. The slow road to her recovery begins. It's good to have my family back.

gall stones

It begins friday night at about 1:30am, Krissy wakes up with heartburn. Nothing new, she's gotten heartburn quite frequently while pregnant, so I didn't think much of it. After she took medicine and it didn't go away and was still hurting in the morning, was when we decided something was wrong.

We went to the doctors early saturday to see what the problem was. He prescribed her some kind of anti-inflammatory pills and told her if the pain don't go away by 8pm that day to go to emergency at the hospital. If the pain didn't go away it meant she more then likely had gall bladder stones and needed more testing done.

So, she got taken care of quickly because Sam was working (thanks Sam) and they took her in. After a night in the hospital, a ultrasound and MRI, it was determined that; yes, she had gall stones and yes, they needed to remove her gall bladder. So they decided to do surgery on her.

Now comes to monday, and they did surgery sometime this morning. I am assuming things went well and she is still sleeping because she isn't picking up the phone in her room right now. I hope everything is okay and she can come home soon.

Anyway, this made for one hell of a fun weekend. Now I'm off to go see her and make sure she's doing okay.

all I want for christmas

So I have found what I need to fix my iMac. The SuperDrive which is broken in mine is apparently a hard item to come by. I have seen it listed for anywhere from $250-$300. Definately not worth the purchase. The cheapest one I've found is for sale here at about $100. Guess I need to start saving my pennies. While I'm in there fixing that, I'll need to re-apply thermal paste too, so I can't forget to buy some of that. Also, I figure I should max out my RAM while I'm taking the machine apart. Which is going to be a 512MB DIMM PC2700 DDR333 chip available here. That will bring me to 1GIG of RAM, which maxes out my machine. Since I'm not able to purchase a new Mac right now, that's all I can do. When I can buy a new machine I'll be looking into a MacBook Pro to save space in the homestead and because Krissy would like a Windows PC... which I want nothing to do with ;)

Of course, I probably won't be able to afford any of that shit for a while. It's nice to dream though.