Herman

Well, I am here to announce that we have another little addition to our family..............Herman. Now I know what you are probably thinking- "Who's Herman?", "Are you pregnant?", "Did you get a pet?", "I thought Kevin was allergic to animals?", "Was that all a lie???", "What's going on?", "Who's Herman?!?"

It's funny how when bad/funny/awkward things happen right away I think "Oooh that will make a great blog post!" I guess that this is one of those moments ;) So with that much said.......I have an umbilical hernia. Random (I KNOW!) but it's true and I am getting surgery this weekend to fix it. For all you that don't know what a hernia is let me take a moment to enlighten you (because I had no idea what it was and thought it was something only a man deals with.......lol). Wikipedia describes it as this: A hernia is the protrusion^[1] of an organ or the fascia of an organ through the wall of the cavity that normally contains it. Another definition: a weakness in the abdominal wall evolves into a localized hole, or "defect", through which adipose tissue, or abdominal organs covered with peritoneum, may protrude. My definition: Basically an alien is inside me and he is trying to come out and it hurts and it's disgusting and his name is Herman.

So that is who Herman is. He is my hernia. Herman the hernia. Sometimes we call him Hermie when he is being good :) I don't think I'll miss him once he is gone even though he's supposedly been around my whole life (the doctor thinks I've always had one, but my pregnancy stretched me out and made that weak spot much larger). So ya....pretty gross if you ask me! Everyone send good thoughts my way please!!! It's outpatient surgery so it really isn't a big deal, but as time gets closer I'm getting a little more nervous. After surgery on my kidney stones and a C-section this should be nothing right?!? Right???

The funny part of the story is that I've got my sister-in-law's dog to thank for discovering what was wrong. Before Christmas I was beginning to realize that this problem probably wasn't a post baby thing like I had originally thought it was and so I was telling my family about it. My sister-in-law breeds puppies and I guess that one of them had the same thing so all of my symptoms sounded familiar to her so she told me what she thought it was. Turns out she was "spot" on......no pun intended.....bahahahaha!!! So thank you Kris and thank you puppy! Wish me luck and bid Herman adieu ;)

Ooh maybe on the bright side I'll have to go to the Pharmacy to fill a prescription....... ;)