It's been 9 days since my last post, seems like I've been constantly on the run lately, one thing after another. I'm trying to get things caught up so I can post to my blog about what's going on, then something else happens. Here's the latest....
My dil came by earlier in the day to say that the grandson had injured himself at school, his foot/ankle may be broken. She was advised to put ice on it. When my son came home from work later they decided to take him on in to the emergency room and these are the x-rays from that visit.
He has a cyst on his bone and this made it weak and caused the break. Looking this up online I find it to be fairly common in growing children, more so in boys. They put a splint on it tonight and gave him some pain meds. Tomorrow they'll have another doctor look at it and probably get a cast put on it.
Everyday I've been getting up and spending at least 2 hours in the garden. I start out hunting pest/bugs and their eggs. I clean up and thin the leaves on the squash plants, tossing out lower leaves that are laying on the ground and broken and dying leaves. Then I harvest. I've had a nice supply of cucumber, zucchini, spaghetti squash, okra, lettuce and arugula. My tomatoes are just starting to turn red and the cantaloupe are starting to look nice. The watermelon are still small and I found one split open, probably from all the moisture we've been having. After gardening then it's on to my regular chores and lately my schedule has appointments in Wichita.
Getting really tired, so I'll go ahead and post this. Hopefully it won't be 9 days before I post again.
Just a few more pictures of the daughter's dog in his Halloween costume so you can see it better...
...looks like a big lizard is taking a piggyback ride.
The tail is suppose to fit over the dogs tail, but he's got a stubby and it doesn't quite give the same effect that a full length tail would.
...he seems to be getting around a lot better since they put the cast on. Appears to be a lot more relaxed.
While I was there my son was showing me his revamped game system and that he now had classic Atari games available to play. He started playing Centipede when the movement on the TV caught their cat's attention...
BTW, this cat's name is Psycho. She earned her name, there weren't a lot of people that she would allow to touch her and some people she flat went off on. In the last year she's actually gotten friendly and cuddly.
Last week he went in and got a dark blue cast put on his leg. His folks bought him a silver Sharpie which he took to school with him and all the kids in his class signed it. I'll get a picture of the cast in the next few days and get it posted. He's healing well and getting around a lot better.
Friday, the little guy will have surgery to reinforce the bone. After two weeks the stitches are suppose to come out and then a cast might be put on. He's got at least a couple months of healing a head of him. His mom was going to get him into football this year, but it looks like that's going to have to wait till next year. Well, that's the breaks.
My dil came by earlier in the day to say that the grandson had injured himself at school, his foot/ankle may be broken. She was advised to put ice on it. When my son came home from work later they decided to take him on in to the emergency room and these are the x-rays from that visit.
He has a cyst on his bone and this made it weak and caused the break. Looking this up online I find it to be fairly common in growing children, more so in boys. They put a splint on it tonight and gave him some pain meds. Tomorrow they'll have another doctor look at it and probably get a cast put on it.
