It happened a year ago tonight!

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It was last Thanksgiving night that I started hurting all over. I went to bed, but soon started vomiting every half hour and then started having chills. I know I should have woke my husband up (our grandson was here that Thanksgiving also), but I kept thinking I would get better. That's what I get for thinking! Early the next morning I told my husband we had to go to the hospital. By then I wasn't vomiting (nothing left) and didn't feel so terribly sick. I knew not to eat anything, but we went through the drive through at BoJangles to get the guys a biscuit. Decided to go to a smaller hospital about a half hour from here, rather than going an hour to the large hospital in another town, mainly because I knew there would be a terribly long wait at the big hospital. Praise God, we went to the closer one. I've written about this before, but it turned out a kidney stone had blocked the urethra and made the urine back up. I was in septic shock. The doctors promptly got everything started and I was pretty much out of it by then. The worse part for me was the blood test every two hours around the clock because they had trouble getting a vein. We learned two days later that I had come really close to dying. I'm so thankful we didn't drive to the larger hospital...I most likely wouldn't have survived it. After three days, I was released, although it took me a while to recover. Two weeks later, I had surgery to remove the stone. I just really had no idea I was that seriously ill. I've teased my husband and grandson that they would have felt really bad if I had died and they had stopped to get a biscuit! But God was so merciful and I'm very thankful to be here for another Thanksgiving! Hope your holiday was full of family, friends, faith, and a feast!