Three for Five

We don't have a photo to capture what sums up the later part of July and a good part of August for our family (actually we do, but lucky for you we aren't into posting gory photos of our daughter's innards), but suffice it to say three of the five of us now no longer have an appendix. To make a painfully long story short Madeleine ended up in the hospital twice during this period with a ruptured appendix. This very sick little girl made it through this tough time, as did her parents. She didn't actually have her appendix removed until September. If you're thinking to yourself that we're repeating ourselves or that this sounds like something you heard from us last year, you're right! Dallin had his appendix removed, with far less agony, about a year before Madeleine. And of the five of us Shannon rounds off the list of the three in our family currently without this useless, yet highly problematic organ.