First off, I have had good intentions of blogging more frequently than weekly, unfortunately 14-18 hours a day at school have made it so I neglect the blog a little. Hopefully in a couple of weeks I'll be back to a more frequent schedule.
I had all sorts of wonderful ideas for a blog this week, but then my wife went and gave me no choice but to blog about her. So here I was, I had a HUGE test on Tuesday that I spent a little time studying for. I had a 12-15 page paper due on Friday in my first ever Civil Engineering class and I was running a little behind in my progress. I finished the test on Tuesday morning and stayed on campus until late Tuesday night. Wednesday is my light day at school, so I knew I had to put in some solid hours on my paper so that I had time to get it done. I went to my classes in the morning and was sitting down, getting started on the paper when I got a call from my wife. She needed me to come home. Why?
Really this should be a long story of what happened, instead it's going to be short, because not much happened. My wife was coming down the stairs. She didn't fall, she didn't trip, she just stepped wrong and heard a loud POP and felt a lot of pain in her foot. Then she hopped around and screamed until she got the chance to call me.
This is a photo of my wife's foot. Notice the bruising. She really got some nice color. It was pretty. So I offered to drive her to the OR, but no, she wanted to wait and see. I did some tests prescribed by the athletic trainers at school which suggested there could be a break and an x-ray was needed. Apparently, part of the peroneal tertious tendon pulled a small piece of bone off. My wife got a boot and that's about it. Final diagnosis: Fractured foot.I had a racquetball student this year do the same thing. She broke her ankle going down the stairs. When she told me she actually made up a bunch of stuff involving being chased by a dog to make the story sound better. We need to come up with something better.
So I came home and spent the afternoon with the family instead of writing a paper.
The paper turned out fine and I enjoyed the time with my family, but it sure made Thursday sort of rough.
On Friday my dad and step-mom came to visit. We had a great time and enjoyed their visit. Six-pence is going to turn two next month, so we decided to have an impromptu birthday party for him. He liked that. He insisted on wearing his Halloween costume to open presents, and we insisted that he remove the costume to eat dessert. Here are some photos.
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Y'ouch! That's a really sore looking foot!! And, it's also a really cute semi-birthday boy. Man, you've also reminded me how much I don't miss school.
The bruising (which is now an image burned in my mind) reminds me of how I was on a church youth hike one time and a boy in the group jumped off a small wall on top of Tillamook Head and dislocated his foot. It was totally stuck at 90 degrees to the side. Thankfully, my dad was there and used his emergency medicine skills. His foot had no pulse, so my dad basically told the kid, "You're going to hate me for a few seconds" and then relocated his foot. The kid screamed a LOT (LOUDLY). Jared Rickenbach, a leader, and I ran down the trail a couple miles and went for help. Good memories :-).
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