Hospital, birthday, grandma, beach

OK – in 1,000 words or less, here’s our week so far. We went to Ocean Park at Old Orchard Beach on Monday. There we spent time with Jason Swiesz and Todd Petit and their families – BBQ followed, then time with Nana and Grandpa Dan. Between the three families, we have 12 kids! We knew each other from school and working at the Clambake. That was a blast! Phew! The best thing about this day is that we got to see loads of people! We say Todd, Angie and their kids, Jason, his mother Diane and Jason’s three kids, my mother and Carl, Laurette, Wayne, Grammy, Steve, and I talked to Jake (from school) and Laura (from Camp Caripoo). See all the pictures! Tuesday and Wednesday, Kim and her Mother volunteered their time for the Western Maine Community Action’s yard sale to benefit their financial assistance. The yard sale is going on during Wilton’s Blueberry Festival August 3rd and 4th. Today, they started volunteering, preparing for the big day, but Kim has been sick from yesterday. It seems her throat is VERY VERY painful, swollen. She can’t swallow, it just hurts too much. She has a hard time breathing from the mouth, so nose breathing is better. Her neck is a little swollen, painful to the touch. Vicodin doesn’t help the pain. She’s on antibiotics. Now, we’re at Franklin Memorial Hospital because the pain is unbearable and she fears a bit because of the breathing thing and swallowing. She won’t even swallow her saliva because it hurts way too much. The pain is worse than before when she went to the Dr.’s. It started yesterday, but it wasn’t this bad. So, now they’re going to take X-Rays, and blood work then we’ll go from there. UPDATE AT 2:00 AM: Kim’s getting admitted to stay overnight and manage the pain. Grandma arrived on Caleb’s birthday. We went to pick her up in Manchester, NH. She’s been enjoying the kids and loves being in Maine. She’s enjoyed helping out with WMCA and looks forward to going to the blueberry festival. Caleb’s birthday went well. He had a lego birthday with friends and family. He’s been building and building and building. He just can’t stop! Kim and I made a lego block cake and everything about the party was lego. See all the pictures!