Last day of Finals

So today has already been interesting and it's not even noon yet. First off I had a final at 7 am this morning, and I know for most of you you're thinking, that's not that bad, but I don't like getting up in the morning, especially when I see any time before 6 am. It's even worse when I have to do so to take a test, Yuck! Bright side of this final was that I thought it would take me all 3 hours, but it didn't! It only took me 2 hours and 15 minutes! My thought as I walked out of my final was "Free at last, free at last. Thank God almighty, we're free at last!"-Martin Luther King Jr.'s immortal words.

This next part of my day actually stared on Sunday when Matt had this red bump on the middle of his calf. It looked kinda like a big red zit, or an ingrown hair, kinda gross I know, but that's what it looked like. I didn't really see him all day on Monday, but by that night it was the size of a quarter and deep red. It looked really gross. We kinda thought it was a spider bite or something like that. Grossed me out, the thought of there being a spider in my bed! He made an appointment with the doctor for yesterday and I guess the first thing the doctor said was "Well, we're kinda worried." AHHH!! Never a good thing to hear! So it wasn't a zit or ingrown hair or bite, no, he's got an infection in his leg! So we got the antibiotic and the doctor told us that if it looked worse when we got up in the morning to come into the Urgent Care Center. Well we woke up this morning and it did look worse. The redness had spread a lot and the part that had been deep red was now almost purple. So we went in. The nurses there were kinda intrigued by it and all wanted to know what he'd done. (Near as we can tell he must have scraped his leg while playing laser tag on Friday with the Elders Quorum.) The doctor came and made more pen marks on his leg marking the extent of the redness, now it's almost down to his ankle. The doctor gave him a shot to numb the area. Then he CUT OUT part of it! No joke! He pulled out his little switchblade scalpel thing and cut into him! He's such a brave guy though! He just held onto my hand and didn't look so he wouldn't get squimish. He made an incision that was like a centimeter deep and a centimeter wide and was like digging these cotton swab things into him! And then they gave him a shot in his hip! That was the worst part of the whole thing for him, because after they gave it too him he kinda went into shock and was nauseous and really really pale. It kinda scared me because we knew he'd been unresponsive to that drug when he was younger and didn't know if he was having an allergic reaction to it. But after 20 minutes of laying down with his feet up he was fine, if i can call walking with a limp and being extremely sore fine. Let me just tell you how brave he is. I would have been in tears if it was me. Like full on crying like a baby. I have a really low pain tolerance. He didn't even shed one tear, not one!

So because he's not supposed to walk on his leg, I had to drop him off at the Wilk, and then park the car and go to work. I was positive I was going to be late, but figured that they wouldn't care when I explained what was going on. BUT as I was going to turn down to park at the Marriott Center, and there was someone leaving the spot RIGHT in front of the bell tower! Happy Day! So I actually made it to work on time. I think Heavenly Father was watching out for me because I'd been doing my job as a wife. Then when I got to work my friend Meagan Adams had made the most delicious guacamole using avocados grown in her backyard in California! SO SO YUMMY! It kinda made my day.