So if you haven't talked with us in you will be surprised by this news.

The end of last week Damion was in the DC area for business. As usual he had time to hang out with Jeff & Jaime and later Rob. On Saturday Damion was four wheeling with Jeff and others when he was involved in an accident. It required an ambulance ride to a trauma center where he ended up spending the night. He has a fractured left scapula and a bruised lung and road rash all over. He was not allowed to fly yesterday so he came home tonight. Tomorrow we get to see the ortho again but for a new injury. If you interested there are pictures of him and his owies.

A couple of nights ago I wrote this nice long post to share but haven't gotten around to putting it up. So, here's the summary.....

Damion had his doctor's appointment on April 9th. The bone is 60-70% healed. He has a special ortho boot/shoe thing he can wear. But he got clearance for hard sole shoes (ie dress shoes, bike shoes). Another appointment in 5 weeks.

That same day we started to the mall around 10:30 am to return Anna's Easter outfit and get one she couldn't destroy as easily. Long story short, we didn't get to the mall until dinner time. We went to the Honda dealership and test drove a 2004 Honda Odyssey. We've been talking about minivans for the past three years and the Odyssey since the fall. Well Friday morning we traded in the Jeep for the Odyssey.

That evening we packed it up to go to "gramma's grampa's house" (Anna was a bunch bits of excited about the trip.) for Easter weekend. Thanks to the generosity of my mom, my sister, my bro & Lori, Damion and I had a date afternoon, which was fun.

There are pictures up in the gallery from the weekend and from today. Damion is currently on a business trip so the kids and I spent most of the afternoon at various parks and I took the camera out since we were in our backyard and they couldn't tumble 10 feet to the ground.

No update since March 7?  No pictures of activities in March?  It’s March 29^th!  I’m such a slacker……okay after a second of thinking about it I’m not a slacker, just a busy person.

The beginning started fairly normal.  See a doctor about Damion’s foot and play phone tag with the nurse to discuss the diagnosis a bit more.  Repair the broken drier (thank you Handy Man Damion for keeping it under $50).  Buy a new grill.  Watch the kids play with the two horseys we found on the curb.  Play outside with the kids in weather that was maybe a bit too cold some days to be outside and also on gorgeous spring days. 

The middle was the challenge.  Our friend Adam’s mom was hospitalized and had several procedures done, TO HER BRAIN.  Since she was in ICE her grandson (Connor, 15 mths) couldn’t be there.  So Keri, Connor’s mom, accepted our offer to watch Connor.  Needless to say it was interesting having three kids until 3 in our house.  During that time Jack seemed to work hard at increasing his vocabulary and Anna was the gracious host full of hugs for Connor.  Fortunately all three got along well.  Momma is doing better and has been home for a week, which happens to be how long Connor has been back with his mom. 

 The end is still being written.  More playing outside as weather allows, what’s with the forecast of snow?  Damion threw up his hands at repairing his truck at thanks to his brother now has a Volvo 960.  I spent yesterday at Traffic School (43 mph in a 30 mph, honestly I thought it was a 35 mph).  Yesterday Jack also got his first haircut.  Today I also uploaded a ton of pictures for everybody with more details about the little things over the month.  Enjoy!

Today was the day we had been waiting 5 weeks for.  Unfortunately we didn’t get quite the news we were expecting.  

 

The not so humorous nurse cut off Damion’s cast revealing little specks on Damion’s foot/lower leg and some really dirty toes (man can not apparently clean toes on diaper wipes alone).  Off he went to x-ray and returned requesting wet paper towels to clean his foot. 

Junior doctor (aka Jeff) felt Damion’s foot and spoke with us a bit and said that the foot was still broken.  He left and we waited for the ortho doctor.  He showed us the x-rays taken today and honestly it didn’t look any different than the ER x-rays but he said it was starting to heal.  All we saw was a small grayish area but it wasn’t white like a full bone is.  After some discussion Damion was given a walking boot (or as Stacey the fun nurse called it, “a moon boot”) and told to wean off the crutches over the next week.  (I guess nobody would be to surprised to learn he used them walking out of the doctors office and hasn’t used them yet, right?!?!).  Next visit would be in 5 weeks with x-rays again.  After some looking back on the conversation the doctor didn’t really seem to have a plan about what would happen then if there was no improvement and seemed a bit caught off guard when Damion asked if pins would be needed.

Since this visit didn’t go quite as planned we went to Starbucks even though Nana requested earlier in the day we come straight home from the visit.  See we knew that she likely wouldn’t mind too much since we brought her a drink too.  While talking with her we started to toss around the idea of a second opinion from the doctor we originally wanted to see but couldn’t because he was on vacation.  We’ll see what this weekend brings with it before making that final decision, but don’t worry; we’ll try to keep you all in the look.