Lost then Found

Yesterday, Payton was upstairs messing around in spencer's room hitting his head on the mattress. Apparently he wanted to see how far he could push the mattress with his head. That's Payton for you, anything but doing his jobs. Anyways, he saw a shiny thing and thought it was a sequence and then realized it was MY DIAMOND!!!!! He came down sooooo excited that he had found my diamond. It was underneath Spencers mattress. I couldn't believe it. And it figures that it was our little gemologist, Payton. I think he will probably find the next hope diamond. He can find treasures just about anywhere. THANKYOU PAYTON! Now to fix it. My ring is a little bent and out of shape. I'm am so happy it has been found. Answered prayers. If that is not an answer to many prayers I don't know what is. It will be a great family home evening. He surely does not answer our prayers on our time but on his.

LOST

This past monday was a bit of a stressful night. The whole month of October has been stressful. It is a month I do not want to repeat anytime soon.\
Mady came in the house and asked if she could go to her new friends house, which I quickly said "NO." Mady makes lots of friends and I had no idea who this new friend was where she lived or anything about her parents. so I got on the phone to check on a friend who had recently had back surgery. 35 minutes later I got off the phone and went outside to get the kids. At this point it was time to come in. The sun was going down and we were going to go to a park to exercise. So I started calling for Mady and no response. I didn't see her at the park. Cameron and spencer looked upstairs and in the back yard and no Mady. I sent them to a couple of neighbors houses to check to see if she was there. NO Mady! So at this point I started getting a little worried and got into my car and started looking through the neighborhood, with no luck. The boys got on there bikes and started searching. About 15 to 20 minutes into this I started to panick and get very sick to my stomach. I came in the house and called Anthony and Jessica. Both were on there way to help look for Mady. I called the police and in a matter of a couple of minutes they had 7 officers circle the area around my house. I gave a description and they asked me to print up a picture of Mady. I started really getting sick to my stomach at that point. As the mom I started thinking of some terrible things and panicking. My neighbor behind us had also been on his bike looking and was in the house with me while I was on the phone. He was trying to calm me down. A couple minutes later Payton walked in and announced that he had found Mady. And there she was. I wanted to spank her bottom for doing that but was so happy to see her I started crying more. I called the police back and let them know she was here and an officer showed up to talk to mady. Which I appreciated greatly. He told my kids everything that I tell them constantly. Like when the sun goes down you come in the house, or don't leave your sister out there by herself. All Mady said was, and through her tears, (she was so scared I could see her legs shaking through her pants) "I don't want to be arrested!" The officer said he wasn't going to do that, but that she really needed to listen to her mom and be more obedient. Needless to say the child has been on house arrest for the week, and maybe for her LIFE!!!!! We will see about that last part. What a sickening experience. That was a terrible feeling. One of the worst I have had. So, like I said in the beginning, I will be so glad when October is over. I have had more stress this month than one person can handle. All done!!

October- kidney stone, and help

What a month October has been. I will start at the beginning. It was the Friday before conference and I woke up to serious pain in my kidney, for the 9th time in 13 months. I knew it was a kidney stone again. I was up at 3 in the morning trying to relieve pain. I came down stairs so I wouldn't wake up my lovey and took my usual pain medication. When Anthony did wake up I told him that if this happens again I would like him to just take me to the emergency room. This, because for the last 13 months I have had this pain 9 times. I knew that it was a kidney stone. I had had a CT scan, blood work and countless urine tests and blood work done and still the same response was "Mrs. Jeffers, we can't find a stone you must just have an infection." With lots of frustration that is why I decided to go to the emergency room. I figured that someone elses perspective might be a good thing. So Sunday came around and when President Monson was giving his closing remarks the pain started again. I told Anthony " let's go now!" I called my mom and she was quickly on her way to pick up my kids and take them to her house. It seemed like forever to get to the emergency room. I had taken vicaden before I left and that was easing the pain somewhat. It took about 15 minutes to check me in and hook me up. They gave me Morphine and Toridol (sp). And the pain started to subside. At that point they could take me in and do another CT scan. About 15 or so minutes later the physician came in to tell me that he had found a 9.9 1/2 mm kidney stone. It was not going to budge being that size, so they needed to admit me to the hospital. So an ambulance ride later we were checked into the hospital. They had originally told me that they would do surgery on Monday and get the thing out, but when they did the urine test on me they had found that I had way too much bacteria and infection in me and that they had to pump me full of antibiotics before they did surgery. Tuesday came and they finally took it out. They lasered it and put a stint in. The day after surgery I started having a great deal of pain and pain medicine was not doing anything to help the pain. Anthony gave me a blessing. My mom and him didn't know what to do, but I sure appreciated the amount of caring and love that they had showed me through this whole thing. Thursday was also a painful day. During all this we had called the uriologist to see if something could be done and he didn't seem all that phased. Well, The following week on Thursday (I was counting down to this day) I went in to have the stint removed and the first words out of the Dr. mouth was "Um, where is the stint?" He asked me if I had done anything strenuous and I wanted to punch him at that point. He then told me, that the stint had migrated into my bladder and that that would cause a great deal of pain. Now I really wanted to pluck his nose hairs out!!!!! When he was done I stood up and any and all pain was completely gone! It was amazing and madening all at the same time.
I am really thankful for all those people that helped out especially my mom and lovey. They both were frustrated as they watched me be in pain and had no idea what to do. Anthony took off the week and took care of the home and kids as well as still going to school and working from home. He was very happy to go back to work the following week. My mom came and brought dinner, bathed kids, took them to her house, helped with homework, and was just a great help. Jodi had run to the store to pick up milk. My dad drove all the way over to drop off a massage pad for me to help aleviate the pain in my kidney. People in the ward had brought some dinners for us. And Jessica in the last year when I had this pain off and on was there to also help with whatever I needed. I am thankful for great people in my life. I am not one that likes to take help or even ask for it, but in the last year I have had to ask for help on many occasions. Thank you to all those that have helped me and my family out. I appreciate all the love and support that you have given me. If I forgot anyone I also thank you very much!
I will be so glad when October is over. It has been one stressful month.