Update...

Here is a quick update on Josh: the Wednesday following his hospital stay he went to see his primary care provider who ordered another bunch of lab tests. He got the results back about a week and a half ago and I just wanted to let everyone know that EVERYTHING came back completely NORMAL!! Great news! So for future reference: stay away from Aventura Hospital because they seem to like to admit perfectly healthy young men! And of course Josh has continued to feel absolutely normal since that night. Who knows what really was causing him pain that night but it's good to know that all of the exams came back saying what we already knew-Josh is a very healthy guy!

Also, I broke our camera so until I do some research and buy us a new one, there won't be any pictures!!

Pinewood derby, birthday and a hospital stay...

Hello All!! We have had quite a crazy past week! Most of it was great but there were some parts we could've done without! First off, the pinewood derby....Josh was very excited to enter his car this year-it was his first one since he was a boyscout! Our friends the Recalde's were also very involved with building the fastest car...it was kind of a joke between us with who had the fastest car and who would take first place in the derby-all I know is that I should've been spinning wheels at 3:30 in the morning but instead I slept peacefully on the couch while everyone else stayed up until 5am perfecting their car! The next few pictures are from the derby...we ended up taking 2nd place to our friends Jamie and Punj.


Josh named his car 5am which was quite fitting considering the circumstances!

This is the group of all the racers

The race track
Some of these kids came up with very creative cars! It was fun to see the different designs

These are the boyscouts cars...everyone else was in the open tournament

After the pinewood derby, my birthday adventure started! Josh had set up a day full of different festivities for my birthday (which was Sunday). Basically he would give me a clue to an adventure and then I would have to choose between 2 options-the catch is I didn't know what the options were! My first adventure took me blindfolded to an "undisclosed" location...

Josh leading me from the car



I ended up at the mall with my friend Jamie who treated me to a fantastic pedicure! Thank you Jamie and Punj! After the pedicure I had to make another choice and I ended up getting some money to spend on a new outfit! After the shopping spree I got another clue and option to choose from which landed us at PF Changs for a birthday dinner!


A bunch of our friends (and my husband who had left me while I was blindfolded before the pedicure) were waiting for me at PF Changs which was another fun surprise! After dinner we went back to our apartment for presents, ice-cream cake, and another "choice" to make to determine our adventure for the remainder of the evening!! I didn't get any pictures of the night activity but we ended up at a country dancing bar that teaches line dancing on Saturday nights! It was a great birthday! Thank you Joshua for planning such a fun day for me! You are very creative and the BEST husband a girl could ask for!!

Making a wish...
Most of you already know what happened after that, but I'll explain to those who don't (and I'm going to try to make it short!). We got home from country dancing and after watching part of a movie we went to bed. At 4am Josh woke me up complaining of severe shoulder, chest, and abdominal pains. His blood pressure was high and he was nauseated so naturally I got worried and took him to the ER. To make a long story short, they ended up admitting him to the hospital for rhabdomyolysis (abnormal breakdown of muscle) even though in my opinion he didn't need to be. We got out of the hospital on Monday evening after 2 days of wasting time and money! We still don't know why he felt the way he did but the good news is he has felt great since 7am Sunday morning-hence the reason we wasted time at the hospital!! The catch is that his LFT's (liver function tests) in the blood kept coming back high so now he has to follow up with a GI doctor to make sure that his liver is okay. Soooo as you can see it was an eventful weekend!! Luckily things have gotten back to normal and we are happy and healthy! Thank you for all of your calls and concerns! We truly are blessed with great friends and family and we love you all!