Birthday, and a fun night in the ER

So..... Chris made my birthday really special yesterday. He gave me a big bag full of thoughtful presents in the morning, took me out to lunch, and had a mini birthday party with his family and some friends at his mom's house later that night. Chris has been having some medical issues lately. He has fresh and dark, almost black blood in his stool and urine and yesterday had the worst gut ache he has ever had in his life. He threw up and there was blood in it. We decided with all of his medical issues unattended, we should probably go to the ER. The VA hospital claims they are the best in care. That is so untrue. We had to take a number. We got in at 9:30, and were not seen until 1:45 a.m. There were 10 people in front of us, and about 4 after us. By the time we got seen, we were the only ones left. The people that came after us were seen before us. We got in the room, and waited another while to be seen. Chris was poked and prodded just about everywhere you could think of, and then had a tube placed down his throat and had his stomach pumped all while he was throwing up because of his gag reflex. Fun. Pretty much had exactly what Caden had done. He had an IV placed in him. All of this, and nothing. No bad results. Next on the list of testing.... Colonoscopy and endoscopy. That will hopefully happen soon so we can start to know what is going on with him. It was definitely a birthday we will never forget :)