February 18th, 2009
As most everyone knows (I think), we’re at the hospital today. Chris hurt his knee playing dodgeball on our last cruise. He’s having surgery to repair the ACL in his right knee with harvested tendon from his patella. (That’s why I’ve had time to catch-up on blogging! What better way to keep my mind occupied? Well… I tried to work, but the wireless here is sketchy. Having WordPress on my iPhone makes it easy to update our website though!) But back to the subject in the title…
As we were waiting for them to take him back for his operation, I noticed the second band on his arm. Chris thought I was kidding when I exclaimed, “How on earth is that band going to prevent you from falling???”
ROFLMAO! Gullable? Naive? Whatever you want to call it, I crack myself up sometimes.
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January 26th, 2009
Yea! She’s all healed! Katie got the ok from her orthopedic doctor to take her boot cast off and resume normal activity. She can’t do gymnastics for another two & a half weeks. (Mommy is nervous about that one. The doc said “mommy needs to get over it.” Dang doc!) Oh and she’s all better from her tonsillectomy too.
The funny thing is comparing her shoes. One has 3 weeks more wear than the other… And it’s obvious which one. LOL
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December 30th, 2008
Today for lunch we went to Waterloo Icehouse with Chris’s brother, sister-in-law & their two boys. We thought it’d be great because they have a nice, huge playscape for the kids where we can sit and watch them.
After much waiting, our cold, stale food arrived. The kids weren’t too interested in eating, so they ran back out to play. I looked up and saw Katie at the top of the “ladder” with one foot on the landing… almost there. And I saw our nephew right behind her on his way up. I looked down to take a bite of my soup, and when I looked up Katie was on the ground and 2 other moms were running over to her.
Chris and I ran out there and she wasn’t moving… crying extremely loudly. We checked her out then rolled her on her back. She was a little quivery, probably from the shock. When we went to stand her up she said her foot hurt. I could tell it was swollen. Even candy couldn’t convince her to quit crying. Off to the ER we went. Luckily we had taken 2 cars to lunch… so Rob & Susan took William with them while we spent the afternoon with Katie.
She was soooo good! We didn’t have anything to entertain her while we were there. Luckily Mommy had fingernail polish in her purse. She sat nicely without us staying with her during her 3 x-rays. She has 2 hairline fractures in her left foot. We made it home about 2 hours later with her foot in a splint-type cast. Her little pink toes look kinda cute in it. She will see an Orthopedic later in the week to re-evaluate.
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