Alan, Sherry, Hannah, Kara and Rylan came Friday afternoon and we had to take them to the beach!
Hannah and Carlie
Zach and Rylan
Rylan with his juice box
Carlie
Hannah
Our little mermaid, Ms. Kara
All of the kids!
We got home around lunch time from the beach. Us women went to Wally World to get a few things for lunch and supper. When we came back we ate lunch then it was time for some horse shoes!
Even I got into playing.. I would throw and Zach would scream trying to mess me up.. what a sweet boy!
my handsome hubby..
Rylan knew that this little faucet had water.. we used it to clean our feet before went into the house but he thought it was better to play in..I might have turned the water for him a few times.. it was too cute just to watch him play!
Saturday afternoon as it got cooler (still HOT but better) we decided to take the kids back to the beach. We had a great time again playing in the water and because Zach is not the best swimmer I tried to stay out there with him so that if I wave went over him I could catch him and just watch him. Well we would take little breaks from the water in one of our breaks we were walking back and as I was walking I step on something that I knew wasn't quite right.. it was slimey and MAD that I was on top of it the next thing I know it is wiggling and I feel it swing around and hit me.. I was in pain and I knew exactly what it was it was a stingray! I got Zach and ran to the shore where Tim, Thomas and Sherry were at and I could finally see my foot it had a little bit of blood but I was in PAIN! So we walked over to where the sandbags were and I leaned against them to try and take a look at it better. I had my cell phone down there so Sherry looked up what to do on WebMd. Tim wanted to know if I wanted to go to the hospital and I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do.. So we walked back to the house and I sat in a chair on the porch.. luckily there was a cop down the road so Thomas walked down there to see what he thought when he came back he told us that he said to put a hot pad on it or put in hot water and go to the hospital because they can leave their barb in you and they are posionous.. so on to the hospital in Lake Jackson we went. We got there and put my name in and the guy goes you aren't the first we had today.. That made me feel better.. NOT.. so they took me back got my blood pressure and everything else and told me that I was going to have to wait in the waiting room but they said they were going to give me something to help the pain.. so me and my bowl of hot water went and waited.. Tim got me registered and a few minutes later (all together about 30-45 minutes had past) I was going back to the room. Which was great because by the time I was going back the water was luke warm and as soon as the water wasn't hot it was back to PAIN! So we got in and the nurse got me some more water and we waited. The doctor came in and said well you are the 11th one today and we had a bunch last weekend too.. would have like to have known that before we put the kids in the water. So she asked when was the last time I had a tetnus shot and I couldn't remember so she goes so today.. I said yes.. then she told me that they were going to give me some pain meds and an antibotic. She felt around the wound to see if she could feel the barb and gratefully she didn't but she said she wanted to take some x-rays of my foot to comfire that it didn't go deep in my foot. So we got every and waited for the results.. about 30mins later NO BARB! Thank goodness.. if there would have been a barb I would have had to got to surgery to get it out! So we made our way back to the beach house. I told everyone that I had the memorable moment of the vacation and they could thank me! I woke up Sunday and had a little paid but my arm where I got the shot actually was the worst and still is! We clean the house up and then it was back home!
It was a great trip and I'm so happy that our family came with us and was able to share all of this with us. I hated that I got hurt but was thankful it wasn't any worse!
