Trip to St. Lukes Hospital in Idaho

Last Sunday out of the blue we received a phone call letting us know that Paul's Dad Doug was in the hospital and had been there for 3 days already and had also had three surgeries since Friday for a bleeding ulcer. He had been given 12 bags of blood for all of the blood that he had lost and he even had to have more blood shipped in from a nearby hospital because the hospital that he was in ran out of his blood type. As soon as we heard this information, we quickly packed up our bags and headed to Boise, Idaho to visit him in the hospital. Porter has been sick with the flu the last couple of days and so he was pretty fussy on the drive up..poor kid. By the time we arrived, it was pretty late and Doug was already down for the night. We found a Comfort Inn Hotel and stayed there the night. It was Porters first time sleeping in a hotel and we were nervous how he would sleep in a new environment since our last camping trip didn't go so well. We got a room with 2 beds and barricaded Porter with pillows on one of the beds. HE SLEPT AMAZING!! He was pretty hyper when we first arrived so we got him ready for bed and wrapped him in his blanket, turned off the lights and just let him wiggle to sleep.. he was asleep within 2 minutes..it was fabulous! :) He only woke up once during the night but fell back asleep within just a couple of minutes. The next morning we found him in a pretty funny position against the headboard of the bed...silly kid. That morning Paul went and got us breakfast and we relaxed and watching the morning cartoons.. I haven't done that in a long while. We then headed to the hospital to visit Doug. He seemed to be doing a lot better but he was very week. He was still on an all liquid diet and hadn't had solid food since Friday. He was super tired and slept a lot. After we visited with him for a while, we went out to lunch with Paul's sister Cerra and her husband Dillon. We ate at an awesome restaurant called Smokey Mountain Pizza.. and it was delicious!! I got a yummy appetiser salad and then Greek Penne Pasta. I will definitely be going back there.. it was absolutely amazing. Porter chewed on lemons and oranges and loved them. After lunch we headed back to the hospital and visited with Doug for the rest of the day. Paul is totally swamped with school and work and so we decided to head back to Utah that night since Doug was pretty stabilized and doing much better. Poor little Porter was not happy about getting back in the car for another long drive and pretty much fussed the whole way home. We are so glad that we went up to Idaho to visit Doug in the hospital even if it was a short visit. We hope that he feels much better very soon!!