Halloween

This year the girls did not go trick or treating. Jeff surprised us by driving in for the evening. Ruth and Jeff cut up all night and it was nice for me to get a break. Sara was dressed as a ladybug and Ruth was a cowgirl. Sara was off in the side yard with her boyfriend, with me frequently checking on them hahaha.

We tend to go all out for Halloween including 12 strings of lights that the girls put out

happy year 5!

This is the 5th anniversary of Sara's Gotcha Day. Once again, a cake was in order...marble of course. Note the "frankenstein" arm. She had just taken a shower and got her splint wet and it was drying. She has to put it back on ASAP.

Another doctor visit...and 2 more months!

Back to see the surgeon today hoping for good news. We had the stitches removed with lots of fussing but they came out clean. Only 7 which was good, but it did leave a huge scar. Bad news is that the dr said it would be two more MONTHS until the brace can come off. Back in two more weeks for more X-rays.

Sara's first homecoming

Sara has begun dating the boy next door....literaly. He attends a different HS where his father is a football coach, so we had two homecomings. The first was for his school. He made the mum for Sara and it was beautiful. Sara and I made his garder which was pretty good for a first time try. Notice on his garder we put both school's colors...recyclable for next week too.

The following week was Sara's homecoming and she wanted a mum that had her school colors, so I made her one for her school.

Sleepy time

Sara has to get up at 5:30 to get ready for school and catches the bus at 6:15 AM. Sometimes when she gets home, she falls asleep on the couch. Today I guess the cat was tired too.

another dr visit

Went back to the surgeon for a follow-up. Once again another cast came off...ouch. The stitches will come out next week. Based on the X-ray, all is aligned well.











Just like a teen, nothing is going to stop that texting. I guess that at this point it is a good distraction.

recovering

Sara has managed to take no pain pills today. I took her shopping a little to get her moving some. She actually ended up riding in the buggy at Wal Mart because it got to be too much. She went to the movies with a friend. Ruth is such a help too.

Our dog Jessie is very protective of Sara and makes sure that she is alright.

Sara's surgery

Today was surgery day. Sara went to the first two classes and I picked her up just in time to get her to the hospital on the dot. If you have perfect attendance in class, you do not have to take the final and we are going for this. Also, that way she was not home worrying. Also, today was disney character day and she was dressed as Mulan....more on that to follow.

Sara was a real trooper. She tolerated the preparations as best as she could. They had to find a pediatric gown because she is so small. We went with the loopy medication into her IV and then she had no cares in the world, and actially thought she was flying.....

about 1 1/2 hours later they told me they were done. The dr said that because she was so small, they actually had to bend the plates to fit them into her arm.....my question why did he not actually LOOK at her when we were in and see how small she was and weighed only 84# instead of seeing that she was 14. I am upset about this. What does this mean? SHE WILL HAVE TO HAVE A REPEAT OPERATION IN 4 MONTHS TO REMOVE THIS PLATE
We will NOT tell Sara this for about 4 months. I think she has enough pain and suffering for a while.

The recovery took many hours due to her pain levels and I will not even go into what they had to do to pin it all together and you do NOT want to know but can you say OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So many tears and trying to keep the pain meds going every 4 hours.

Thank goodness there is a holiday on Monday and we have 3 full days of recovery.

Vollyball champs

Once again Ruth's team is rocking. She is a hard player and getting better every day. See her at the net #14. Guess why~~~~can you say TALL. Their games are always very exciting!

BAD NEWS

WELL.....thinking we were just going to the orthopedic dr. to get the bone looked at and then into the pink cast of choice, but we can not always get our wish.

Sara will have surgery on Friday to put plates into her wrist. The dr explained that the end of both bones at the wrist are in many pieces and will not heal correctly by themselves.

More bad news according to Sara, since there will be plates, there will be no need for a hard cast, just a brace which means that there will be no signage....and knowing her she will ask the dr for one but really, can you say scratchy!

She will be out 8 wks and I really hope she learns to do more by then or I will be crazy.

Another hospital visit

Yes--SARA BROKE HER ARM THIS AFTERNOON.


Today Sara had a soccer game. I took her while Jeff had Ruth at home doing homework and a few chores. The soccer game began at 3. At about 3:10 Sara took a hit and went down. We do not coddle the kids and she always gets up, so I did not panic, UNTIL the coach ran to her, looked, and yelled HOSPITAL``HOSPITAL.

It was obvious by the way the arm was hanging that it was broken. I gather everything up to get things in motion. The coach and a few dads took her to the concession stand for ice and splint while I got the car. After passing out and luckily being caught, they helped get her into the car. I made a quick call to Jeff...."yes dear, the same hospital as before"...which luckily is only 4 minutes away. Jeff and Ruth showed up about 20 minutes later....they were in a middle of an oil change and it took a few minutes.

Yes, she broke both of her wrist bones and luckily it was not a compound break. Will see an orthopedic surgeon next week and when the swelling is down, we will get it taken care of further, including a hard cast. She is on nice pain meds and it is funny to watch her falling asleep.

SO NICE.....her coach showed up after the game. Also one of her very good friends, my other daughter, to see to her and she was so upset that she began to faint....can you say comedy act?

Jeff and Ruth took a break and had to get something to eat since it was now 5, so Her friend and her mom stayed.

Finally about 6 we were discharged and went out to eat....what else but Chinese food so she could get her egg drop soup. OH YEA---the doctor said to make sure she takes a lot of calcium so after dinner she had a HUGE bowl of ice cream. I am sure no doctor ever needed to tell me to up my calcium aka eat ice cream.