So everyone in my family has a blog so i guess I need to join the action. This is my first time and I really don't know what to say. How about this. I am Brandon Kidd. As of now I am living in San Diego with my wife Carolyn who is in the navy going to school. Soon we will be heading to Hawaii for the rest of her enlistment. We have been married for two and a half months now and have enjoyed it so far. We have added a new member to our little family. A 10 week old boxer named Ginger. She is going to be the perfect dog. Probably just as great as my sister's boxer Roxy. They even look alike, Ginger and Roxy.
So here is an experience that happened to me Sunday. I woke up with abdominal pain thinking it was from something I ate last night. I continued on with my Sunday activities as usual though. By 4 o'clock the pain had increased dramatically and I could barely stand or eat anything. I tried to rub it away, cause that is what I usually did in the past, and it started to move down to my right lower quadrant of my torso. Carolyn finally suggested that we go to the hospital and I agreed. We went to the Naval Medical Center and checked in around 6:00. By 6:30 I was laying on a bed with and I.V. in my arm and a surgical team coming to see me for appendicitis. By this time luckily the pain had decreased and was tolerable. 7:00 came by and I finally got to talk to that team or at least one of them and others followed within the next two hours. So I was definitely going to have surgery for the first time in my life. So by 10:30 I was prepared and going under the knife. It was so cool to feel myself fall asleep and know what was going to happen. When I woke up it was like turning on your computer. Everything had to turn back on. Smell...check, Hearing....check, Memory....check, Sight....slow to respond, Thirsty....yes, Pain in stomach area.....YES. It was so cool to go through that. No the pain makes me think twice but If I could just to it to play around then I would do it. So now I am on the mend of things. It is so wonderful that Ginger is such a good calm dog or I would be hurting still. The doctor said I need to walk and she gives me a reason to walk. Otherwise I don't think I would. So that is it for now till next time.
