Update from Mexico 2009

Our family trip to Mexico this year has been anything

but normal. We usually have a couple of Doctors that

come with a big group of us every year or at least someone

that can speak Spanish... but not this year.

If you're reading this, you know who you are...

WE'VE MISSED YOU!

I put a big twist on things this year that put me in the hands

of the Mexican Doctors with a difficult language barrier!
If you know me well, you know I have a problem with
chewing my food small enough for my narrow esophagus.

Well it happened again!

This time it was chicken, and because the border was almost closed we found the nearest emergency clinic that was about the size of a small gas station, and not much cleaner! After a lot of drama and some language confusion they decided to try and push the chicken down with this tube. It hurt like crazy and gave me a new definition to the word GAG!

$200.00 later and a lot of tears the
chicken was still stuck.
I had to wait until the next morning to drive
the nearest real "Hospital" 4 hours away.
I obviously didn't sleep, the pain got so bad during
the night. It felt like I had 200 pounds resting on my chest
and I could feel my esophagus swelling making it hard for
me to breath.
I just kept praying I could wait until the next day.

My sister kept our kids in Mexico and Dan and I drove to Phoenix Arizona.

Finally at about 3 that afternoon they put me out and scoped me.

The Doctor said my esophagus was so swollen he had to cut the

chicken into pieces to get it to all go down.

I was so happy to have it all over!

The picture below were with my ER nurses.

They gave me so much crap about chewing

my food properly, I didn't like them much

until it was all over.

There is something about people that think it's funny to

tease me when I'm in pain that makes me want

to throw big items at their head!

We are coming home tomorrow, I will post the fun pictures soon.