Holman loses an organ!

Poor Holmam woke up last Sunday with sevear abdominal pain. He couldnt go back to sleep it was so bad. he stoically still went to church. And that Church he met with one of his friends who is a nurse and she suggested maybe it was an appendicitis. But because Holman was at church, she thought oh it's probably not appendicitis. She probably wouldn't be able to even stand up right now. So home and finish the rest of his church time and then came home. When he was at home, Benjamin and I had him do the appendicitis test. You lay down on the couch and then we push two fingers into his abdomen close to his belly button, and when you release those fingers from being pushed in if you spring up in pain, it's usually an appendicitis. sure enough, he doubled over in pain from the release of the fingers that were pushed into his abdomen. He still didn't think his pain was enough for it to be in appendicitis so he made bread. Then I said this is nuts. You need to go into the doctors office. We called our bishop Mike Walston, a close family friend in high school friend and he suggested to go to Saint Joe's. Holman and I waited in the waiting room for several hours. They finally took a CAT scan of his abdomen and they said he did indeed have an appendicitis. They wanted to do the surgery in the morning and we were like why wait if we know that there's a problem. We're not quite sure how the ball got rolling but the next thing we know instead of home and being wheeled into his private room, he was being wheeled into the OR. Benjamin had been texting Mike about the whole thing and Mike offered to come in and do the anesthesia for it. Benjamin took him up on that offer. So we don't know if because Mike was coming into the hospital that they decided to do the surgery then or how the ball got rolling but we're so glad it did. When the doctor did open him up, his appendix had been leaking. We call that an a burst appendix if it's leaking it means that it did burst! Holman and I spent the night in the hospital as he recovered and Dr. Mike visited him the next morning. Mike was on the phone with his son Jett who is on a mission and who is one of Holmans best friends. It was fun that they got to talk. it was a beast of a surgery and it's been a beast of recovery but Holman's a fighter so he's gonna be fine so grateful for Dr. Walton and his family live so close and being so helpful.