Surgery Time

Colton had an appointment with a hand specialist Monday afternoon and this morning at 8am we went in for surgery.  I patiently waited in his room for 3 hours while he was in surgery and watched some tv to help pass the time.  The doctor wanted to go in and try to repair some nerves that may be damaged.  He came in and talked to me after surgery and come to find out once he was in there only saw one nerve that was nicked and figured it would be better to just leave it alone.  He did make some incisions to help get more movement in his thumb and rearranged some tissue.  So, hopefully it works and his thumb will heal fast!  We will be going back in a week to get the big bandage removed.

Before surgery.

After surgery, all bandaged up...once again.

 

Poor people have poor ways

Colton and I have been in our apartment now over a month and we still do not have any furniture for the living room.  We have a nice tv to watch but the ground is not always so fun to watch it on because it's not too comfortable.  But, Colton sure did get all snuggled up to watch the cooking channel?  He said they were demonstrating how to cook good turkey, imagine that!  Needless to say, he was asleep within 5 minutes!  Maybe one of these days we will have enough money for a nice couch to sit on.  But for now, I guess the floor will just have to do.

Time for Another Wedding

Colton and I made yet another trip to Colorado, and hopefully our last for this year.  This was my fifth trip this year to Colorado and his third.  I feel like I have been there so much!  But, it's always fun to see my family and friends because I sure do miss them a lot.  We went for my Dad's wedding on Saturday and it turned out really well.  I could tell he was really happy which made me happy.  Colton and I surprised him Friday night at the dinner because I originally told him that we wouldn't be there till later because of school.  We left school early and showed up just in time!  I have now seen my Dad's side of the family 5 times this year and love it!  I wish we could always see them that much.  It's just because of all these weddings!  Who would have ever thought that 3 of us would all get married in one year, that's just crazy!

The whole family!

Love them!

Here we go again

So, Saturday Colton cut his hand open.  What's new?  I swear that kid is always getting hurt!  I have never met someone before that gets hurt as much as he does and I really don't like it.  I sure hope he takes things down a notch now because I really don't want any more trips to the ER.  You would think he would learn but apparently not!  I guess he just likes all the attention! (wink, wink)  He was out at the farm cutting a piece of wood and somehow cut his hand in the process.  He doesn't really know how he did it, he just did.  But, the guard wasn't on the blade and I think that is probably something that should go on now so he doesn't cut the whole finger off next time.  It took 2 hours and 21 stitches.  I think this is a new record for him and hopefully the last! We are all surprised he didn't get any tendons because the cut was really deep but I am sure thankful he didn't.  That just would have made things so much worse!  This boy has got to be more careful.