When it rains it pours.

This is a pretty good description of me right now. Except add a little more brown hair, less gray, and take out the ruffled shirt, oh and I'm not even 27 yet....but the cane and wobbling is all correct. Oh and did I mention I'm 25 weeks pregnant?

It all started last Wednesday morning when I woke up with a sore hip. Just sore, not annoying or anything, and thought it would just go away once I got up and at 'em. Nope. It got worse and worse through out the day. By lunch I had a limp, by dinner I was close to tears in pain. All that night I slept maybe 30 minutes and cried a few times in pain. I called my ob/gyn the next morning to see what was up and she suggested I see an Orthopedic doctor, so I went to them that afternoon. I wobbled into their office, they took some xrays, didn't see too much so decided on an MRI. I had that MRI on Friday evening. Not our idea of a nice Friday night date, but whatever goes right? I had to suffer with the EXTREME pain all weekend ( What I really wished for was an epidural to take away the pain and feeling all together), with basically no relief from pain meds or icing it. No matter what position I put myself in it hurt.

On top of all that I was going through and the stress that was on Jack, Jacob started wheezing TERRIBLY on Sunday morning. Bad enough that he was making it very clear that he was miserable and scared. Jack took him to the Urgent Care and stayed there a few hours, now Jacob is on regular nebulizer treatments for a few weeks. Thank goodness he has started cooperating and doesn't make us tackle him and wrap him up like a pretzel to hold him down.

Sunday night I started having consistent contractions, not painful, but none the less, and thought "Are you kidding me? What else? What else?!". I had my friend take me to the hospital to make sure things were okay. Thankfully we were only there a couple hours and were sent home. The doctor thinks the amount of pain and stress my body is going through was causing the contractions.

Back to the MRI- I finally got a hold of the orthopedic doctor once he got out of surgeries Monday afternoon and he told me that as far as they can tell I have a condition called "OsteoChondritis". Basically I have a piece of bone/cartilage floating around in my hip (it is rare in the hip) causing the pain and inflammation. I am told to stay off of it as much as possible, use a cane and crutches when I need to get up and move, and they will see what they can do to fix it once I have the baby. It is too dangerous to operate while pregnant.

As of the last couple days the pain has FINALLY subsided to a minimum because we were able to get the inflammation down with a high push on ibuprofen.

Our family is getting lots of help from friends at church since I can't do much at all around the house, for the kids, or for myself. I am so thankful for the power of prayer, and the power of priesthood blessings given to me from my husband and our home teacher from church. When I was in so much pain I had never prayed so often in my life for the pain to go away, for my son to be okay when he was wheezing so bad, and for my husband to have the strength and patience to get our family through everything.

Thanks again to everyone helping us out either through your prayers or service to our family.

UPDATE: I am doing SOOO much better now. I have a little limp but am pretty much back to normal. The doctors are thinking I will most likely need surgury eventually, but we'll just have to wait and see after the baby comes. I have to make sure not to do too much during the day or I start hurting in the evening, but other than that things are starting to get back to normal. Jacob is starting to get better as well, we just have to figure out if he has allergies, asthma, or just a nasty cold that keeps coming back.

Thanks so much for everyone's prayers, we really appreciate them.