My Birthday

My birthday was quite an event this year.  Since February 29 didn't exist, we celebrated over the whole weekend.  Mike and I went to one of my favorite restaurants, P.F. Changs, for dinner then we went to a movie.  It's pretty much what we do every Friday night, we just dressed nicer this time :)  Here we are enjoying our mini dessert's:

The following Monday, we went with my family to Texas Roadhouse.  It was so delicious, I could eat a million of their yummy rolls.  I was a good sport and sat on the saddle while being sang to, but I will not be posting any of those incriminating photos even though my wonderful brother posted them on facebook during the drive home...

After dinner, we headed back to my parent's house for cake and ice cream: 

This is where things really started to get crazy...while everyone was singing "Happy Birthday" to me, my mom tensed up and fell back on the kitchen tile where she stated seizing.  I called 911 while my brother ran down the street to grab one of our neighbor's, who is a paramedic.  My mom didn't stop seizing for a little over an hour.  She was taken by ambulance to the hospital.  We all followed and were put in the waiting room in the ER to wait for an update.  Finally around one or two in the morning, they told us she would be knocked out for a while so we should just go home and rest.  She ended up spending about seven days in the hospital, mostly in the ICU while they ran a bunch of tests on her brain.  It was a difficult time for our family to see my mom suffer so intensely.  The seizure didn't freak me out as much as watching her come out of it.  She kept mumbling and twitching and moving her body into weird positions, it looked like she was possessed.  It still terrifies me to think of her like that.  It looks like she had a bad reaction to some medications she was taking.  Luckily all of her test results came back normal.  Including x-rays on her head and spine (we were nervous because she fell straight back on the tile and we weren't sure if she hit her head or not).  Lately, she has been doing so great! It's been a little over two months now and she is back to her old self.  She still can't drive, which is a little frustrating for her, but it's nice being chauffeured by my brother all of the time.  This Mother's day was especially meaningful for my family as we all reflected on the trauma that happened at the end of February, I am so thankful my mom is alive and well! She is the best mom and I am so lucky to have her in my life!