Illinois 2011

We got to go to Gary's for a few days. We had a pretty different type of trip.

Friday night we went to a ball game for a while.  It was delayed for rain, but the rain never came until the game started, so the whole game was played in the rain. We left after the 5th inning.



Friday night at midnight Ralph was in pain and throwing up uncontrolably. Ralph ended up in the hospital with a kidney stone. He stayed there from Saturday morning very early about 2:00 a.m. until Sunday morning about 9 a.m.  When he was putting his contacts in he dropped one.  He thought it was on the bed, but after hearing the smash under his foot he found it in pieces on the floor. With all the sleep we lost it was hard to plan fun stuff to do.  Carter & I helped Gary trim his shrubs. Jennie went to St. Louis Friday night and came back Saturday evening, so she missed out on all the Kidney stone excitement.

Sunday we played some games and enjoyed the family. That night Ralph thought he passed his stone.

Monday we went water skiing, played miniature golf, went out to dinner and had a small celebration for Ralph's 60th birthday.

Tuesday Ralph ended up in awful pain again, but we had to go home.  I drove to St. Louis and we went to see the Temple.  He had to lay in the back seat the whole time.  The plane ride took us to Dallas and Ralph thought he was going to die from pain.  It subsided for our ride to SL.

Wednesday morning we ended back in the hospital.  His stone is still present and he's certainly having a hard time.  They sent us home with pain pills.  He stayed home that day from work.