Someone special just turned 30!! part II - ER visit

For Eric's 30th birthday part II, Julie planned a "slightly out of this world " surprise for him. She contacted Mission Soaring Center and set up hang gliding lessons for Eric and friends ( news clip of hang gliding). Eric had no idea what we were doing, he just knew that we had to get up really early on Sunday, take camping chairs, cooler with lots of water, and buy lots of snack food and sandwiches for the day. He thought we were going to go watch the space shuttle landing and we needed to be there early for a good seat ^_^

When Eric stepped into the soaring center orientation class, he was pleasantly surprised ^_^Unfortunately, on the drive to Hollister Julie experienced some sharp pain on the lower right side of her stomach. At first she thought it was just a Braxton hicks contraction pain that should go away in 15-20 minutes, but it lasted 2 hours ( started when we just left San Francisco). When they got to San Jose, Eric knew something was wrong. He stop the car and called the midwife in San Francisco. They were instructed to go to the nearest hospital in fear of appendicitis.

When they were admitted to the Labor and Delivery department, the pain quickly escalated from a 2 out of 10 to a 7-8 out of 10. The pain was so strong that it started to trigger early contraction. Eric held on to Julie's hand while waiting for the doctor. After much testing and pain killer, the medical team still didn't know what was wrong. A surgent proposed to do an exploratory surgery and take out Julie's appendix with a high risk of pre-term delivery... that scared some cold sweat out of Julie -_-

Luckily, Julie was able to contact papa Yang and his OB friends who advised to wait and monitor over night. Julie got more pain medication before everything subsided overnight. (This didn't stop papa Yang and Mama Yang from worrying and calling every two hours to check on Julie and Eric ^_^)

Not much pictures were taken of Eric's special day... but here are some of the pictures Julie took after she was all better the next day ^_^

Here is Julie's view of the bed while she was in pain... she was wondering " is this bed specifically for pregnant patients... otherwise the patient depicted on the railing looks kind of large! ^_^"

Here is Julie's view of Eric all night ^_^ mainly his eyes and his supportive hands!

Here is Eric's view of Julie. Checking to make sure she is well.

Here is Julie excited to finally figure out how to work the TV the next morning and dying to have someone move the curtain out of the way so she can watch TV.

Lots of IV was given over the 24+ hour period.

Julie can't wait for them to take the needle out when she felt all better the next morning!

Yap! crazy hair!

When Julie stood up after 24+ hours, she can fianlly get a good view of the bed/chair Eric slept on the night before.


Sorry to all our friends who made a long trip out to Hollister to help celebrate Eric's birthday... and thanks to Mom and Dad for coming up to support us!!

Now we are all better ^_^ just waiting for junior's arrival at the end of the year ^_^