On December 31st Dave got a vasectomy - he has reached his deductible for the year and we thought it would basically be free - boy were we wrong. On the way home, he starting feeling some intense pain, so we filled his pain prescription and headed home to ice him down, which is what the Dr said he would prescribe for everything so I didn't worry about it. A day or two went by and Dave was still in sever pain, which from everyone else's experiences seemed unusual, so we went back to the Dr who thought Dave had an infection, prescribed an antibiotic and sent him home - the Dr. said he hadn't seen anything like this before after a vasectomy. The next day, nothing had changed so I talked him into a second opinion. This Dr told us that he thought Dave had a hematoma, to go home and it would eventually go away in a couple of weeks. I had been doing a bit of research on the internet and had found that according to most cases, the hematoma doesn't go away on its own - so we went to the ER later that night for yet another opinion. We met with a Uroligist who ordered an ultrasound - and sure enough there was a large hematoma, cutting off the blood supply to one of Dave's testicles -the Uroligist said he had 50/50 chance of loosing it. He also said he could do surgery but couldn't promise that it would help, but that we could go home and put Dave on bed rest and see if it would help. About a week later Dave went into surgery to remove the hematoma - the Dr said as soon as he opened it up, it squirt blood across the room becuase it was under so much pressure. They put a drain in as well to make sure it didn't pool again. While Dave was recovering he was in so much pain - they couldn't keep it under control. I knew he was absolutely dying - he has such a high pain tolerance and this was way too much for him. They finally felt like his pain was under control and sent us home. We were there for the night and then the next morning I took him back to the hospital because I could not control his pain. They put him on a morphine drip for 24 hours, but it did nothing. Finally, they decided to pull the drain out which relieved his pain and once again we were on our way home.
We made big plans for our Anniversary this year - we were going to go to San Diego and soak in the sun, but never followed through with it. Instead, Pete and Kenna watched the boys for us while we went to a burger joint (quickly) just to say we went out for our Anniversary.
I love you baby - maybe next year will be better.
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