Saturday, May 28, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Broken Bone
This is actually an email I wrote to one of my long distance friends today - I'm far too tired to retype it, but I wanted to blog it so those of you who would like the nitty gritty details can read about Zach's latest "adventure". Copy and paste is a wonderful thing.
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So Zachary broke his left leg last night. How great is that? (eye roll!)
The evening started unimpressively - we RUSHED to be done supper and have Zach at the football field by 6 for a camp he wanted to do, only to get there and find out we had our dates wrong and it starts next week.
So we came home and to cheer him up (because he was hugely disappointed) I went on the trampoline with him. Then Brad joined us after a while. I dont do much jumping with them on there because it's hard on my knee, so I just sat on the edge and watched them a bit.
Zach went down when Brad went up and his leg smashed into Brad's knee. INSTANT screaming and freaking out. Now, you have to remember how dramatic Zach is, so I wasn't too worried at first. Especially since Brad was perfectly fine. I even had to get him to confirm that Zach did actually collide with him.
Normally, even when he's super dramatic, within a few minutes i can talk Zach into walking it off, or doing something else, but he refused to move from the fetal position, holding his leg. i couldn't even get him off the trampoline. Dustin had the same attitude I did at first, he'll be fine - but after a few minutes of him not moving or letting me even pull him off, I had that intuition that it would be more serious.
I cannot tell you how unfun it was to slide him off the trampoline and carry him to the car, and set him in without moving his leg. He absolutely shrieked in pain - it was horrible.
Every bump in the road made him gasp. And then carrying him into the ER was exhausting!
I got him admitted though and then we had to wait a few hours (no joke!) before they finally took him in and gave him some pain relief. They had to wait for that to kick in before they could xray, but the dr (who happened to be the same dr who delivered him - i was super happy about that!) said she was pretty sure it was broken just from looking at it.
The xray technician was really good. We had to lift him out of the wheelchair, but she didn't make him move it after that. She totally worked the machines around him in his ball position, just making him move his hands out of the way.
She also let me see the scans - the bones barely lined up any more!! About a third of the way up his shin was a BREAK. My poor baby!!
From there we had to get him back into the wheelchair, easier said than done at this point because he'd figured out how much moving hurt!
So once we were back in the ER, the dr wanted to move him to the stretcher to wrap it. He was having none of that though. He BEGGED her to do it while he sat in the wheelchair and got FRANTIC and freaked out when the 3 of us (me, the dr and a nurse) tried to lift him out. He was screaming and shoving our hands away; it was heartbreaking for me. I just about had a meltdown.
Anyway, the dr got the nurse to give him a mild sedative so relax him more, but he didn't actually sleep. And eventually we had to lift him out anyway, screams and all.
The dr wrapped it in what i'm calling a soft cast, although she called it something else (a splint-cast??). It has like a hard back to it that's working as a splint, and then it's wrapped in gauze and tensor bands all the way around.
He'll be in that for a week until the swelling goes down, and then he'll have a full "regular" hard cast.
Right now this thing goes up mid thigh, so using the bathroom is really hard for him, he leg sticks out all weird and puts pressure on it.
This is the worst day apparently though -I don't know, I've never broken anything, but I'm hoping it gets better from here.
He was given crutches, but it hurts too much to even hold his leg up right now still. I'm hoping by Monday he'll have it figured out so he can go back to school. I'll keep him home as long as it takes though.
Next week Thurs we have an appointment in Winnipeg for the hard cast, which is the same day as his field trip, but i'm thinking it's probably better for him not to go anyway. They're walking around an outdoor museum all day. Not too crutches friendly.
In the meantime, we're keeping up a steady stream of Advil and Tylenol, and regularly making him stand up and move a little so it doesn't stiffen the way it did this morning. I am dreading tomorrow morning already.
He spent the day in Dustin's and my room, since the ensuite is really close and there's a tv and dvd option. He played DS and watched movies all day. We all had supper with him upstairs, which we'll do again tomorrow too.
My prayer is he has less pain tomorrow and can try to learn how to use the crutches so I don't have to carry him anymore.
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So Zachary broke his left leg last night. How great is that? (eye roll!)
The evening started unimpressively - we RUSHED to be done supper and have Zach at the football field by 6 for a camp he wanted to do, only to get there and find out we had our dates wrong and it starts next week.
So we came home and to cheer him up (because he was hugely disappointed) I went on the trampoline with him. Then Brad joined us after a while. I dont do much jumping with them on there because it's hard on my knee, so I just sat on the edge and watched them a bit.
Zach went down when Brad went up and his leg smashed into Brad's knee. INSTANT screaming and freaking out. Now, you have to remember how dramatic Zach is, so I wasn't too worried at first. Especially since Brad was perfectly fine. I even had to get him to confirm that Zach did actually collide with him.
Normally, even when he's super dramatic, within a few minutes i can talk Zach into walking it off, or doing something else, but he refused to move from the fetal position, holding his leg. i couldn't even get him off the trampoline. Dustin had the same attitude I did at first, he'll be fine - but after a few minutes of him not moving or letting me even pull him off, I had that intuition that it would be more serious.
I cannot tell you how unfun it was to slide him off the trampoline and carry him to the car, and set him in without moving his leg. He absolutely shrieked in pain - it was horrible.
Every bump in the road made him gasp. And then carrying him into the ER was exhausting!
I got him admitted though and then we had to wait a few hours (no joke!) before they finally took him in and gave him some pain relief. They had to wait for that to kick in before they could xray, but the dr (who happened to be the same dr who delivered him - i was super happy about that!) said she was pretty sure it was broken just from looking at it.
The xray technician was really good. We had to lift him out of the wheelchair, but she didn't make him move it after that. She totally worked the machines around him in his ball position, just making him move his hands out of the way.
She also let me see the scans - the bones barely lined up any more!! About a third of the way up his shin was a BREAK. My poor baby!!
From there we had to get him back into the wheelchair, easier said than done at this point because he'd figured out how much moving hurt!
So once we were back in the ER, the dr wanted to move him to the stretcher to wrap it. He was having none of that though. He BEGGED her to do it while he sat in the wheelchair and got FRANTIC and freaked out when the 3 of us (me, the dr and a nurse) tried to lift him out. He was screaming and shoving our hands away; it was heartbreaking for me. I just about had a meltdown.
Anyway, the dr got the nurse to give him a mild sedative so relax him more, but he didn't actually sleep. And eventually we had to lift him out anyway, screams and all.
The dr wrapped it in what i'm calling a soft cast, although she called it something else (a splint-cast??). It has like a hard back to it that's working as a splint, and then it's wrapped in gauze and tensor bands all the way around.
He'll be in that for a week until the swelling goes down, and then he'll have a full "regular" hard cast.
Right now this thing goes up mid thigh, so using the bathroom is really hard for him, he leg sticks out all weird and puts pressure on it.
This is the worst day apparently though -I don't know, I've never broken anything, but I'm hoping it gets better from here.
He was given crutches, but it hurts too much to even hold his leg up right now still. I'm hoping by Monday he'll have it figured out so he can go back to school. I'll keep him home as long as it takes though.
Next week Thurs we have an appointment in Winnipeg for the hard cast, which is the same day as his field trip, but i'm thinking it's probably better for him not to go anyway. They're walking around an outdoor museum all day. Not too crutches friendly.
In the meantime, we're keeping up a steady stream of Advil and Tylenol, and regularly making him stand up and move a little so it doesn't stiffen the way it did this morning. I am dreading tomorrow morning already.
He spent the day in Dustin's and my room, since the ensuite is really close and there's a tv and dvd option. He played DS and watched movies all day. We all had supper with him upstairs, which we'll do again tomorrow too.
My prayer is he has less pain tomorrow and can try to learn how to use the crutches so I don't have to carry him anymore.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Give it time!
This may be a totally cheesy post, but I'm writing it anyway.
How often do we look at something, and instantly judge it as either trash, or useless?
When, if we had taken the time to slow down, and really see it, we'd see it was in the process of transforming into something beautiful.
We're judging too soon. Give it time.
People are a lot like that. I'm not going to get into that, because then I'll start preaching, and Lord knows I'm in no position to do that. I'm living in the glass house along with everyone else.
This is all on my mind because I started tackling the front and side flower beds. Something I've dreaded since we bought this place last August. I can't say I was disappointed that we had a winter to get settled before the yard needed some TLC.
Luckily, I was at a friend's yesterday and she was showing me all her perennials coming up. One of which was Lily of the Valley. I had never seen them before yesterday, so like I said, good thing she showed them to me!
So this morning when I grabbed the little twisty-hand-tiller-thing (what are they called?!) and went to work ripping anything and everything up in my path, I stopped when I saw them.
Or what about this? Quack grass growing between the paving blocks? Nope, Chives! This I discovered by the wonderful smell from pulling another patch.
Do you see my point?
How often do we look at something, and instantly judge it as either trash, or useless?
When, if we had taken the time to slow down, and really see it, we'd see it was in the process of transforming into something beautiful.
We're judging too soon. Give it time.
People are a lot like that. I'm not going to get into that, because then I'll start preaching, and Lord knows I'm in no position to do that. I'm living in the glass house along with everyone else.
This is all on my mind because I started tackling the front and side flower beds. Something I've dreaded since we bought this place last August. I can't say I was disappointed that we had a winter to get settled before the yard needed some TLC.
Luckily, I was at a friend's yesterday and she was showing me all her perennials coming up. One of which was Lily of the Valley. I had never seen them before yesterday, so like I said, good thing she showed them to me!
So this morning when I grabbed the little twisty-hand-tiller-thing (what are they called?!) and went to work ripping anything and everything up in my path, I stopped when I saw them.
See them?
How about in a section with less weeds?
Or what about this? Quack grass growing between the paving blocks? Nope, Chives! This I discovered by the wonderful smell from pulling another patch.
Or these? Just some sticks in a pile of clippings?
Look closer.... Raspberries!
Do you see my point?
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
My munchkins on Mother's Day
It's something Dustin started doing for me every few years on Mother's Day - photos with my boys. Lets face it, I am the photographer in the family - rarely does Dustin think to snap a photo if I'm snuggling on the couch with the boys, or doing any of the stuff I do with them. And that's totally fine, this is not a post complaining about that - it's actually one of praise.
Because of this, I get an 'official shoot' with the boys yearly on Mother's day. (Plus the odd self portrait I take of myself with them -we're getting really good at those!) The idea is to do this every year, but some years we forget - or the weather doesn't cooperate and then we forget ... you know where I'm going with this don't you??
Anyway, here are some of the shots from this year's Mother's Day.
They weren't smiling 'naturally', so I tickled them!
I really can't believe how big they are getting! The first Mother's Day we did this, Zach wasn't even sitting on his own, and Brad was still 2!
I am so proud of them! I know that boys will be boys, and they can rough-house too much, and bicker a lot, but I genuinely think I have some amazing kids.
If the only thing I do well in life, is raise great kids ... I'm totally happy with that.
Because of this, I get an 'official shoot' with the boys yearly on Mother's day. (Plus the odd self portrait I take of myself with them -we're getting really good at those!) The idea is to do this every year, but some years we forget - or the weather doesn't cooperate and then we forget ... you know where I'm going with this don't you??
STUDIO SHOTS!
Man, I am in love with this equipment!
Man, I am in love with this equipment!
Anyway, here are some of the shots from this year's Mother's Day.
They weren't smiling 'naturally', so I tickled them!
I really can't believe how big they are getting! The first Mother's Day we did this, Zach wasn't even sitting on his own, and Brad was still 2!
I am so proud of them! I know that boys will be boys, and they can rough-house too much, and bicker a lot, but I genuinely think I have some amazing kids.
If the only thing I do well in life, is raise great kids ... I'm totally happy with that.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
I did it!!
I did it! I did it! I did it! I did it!!
I can still hear Zachary's little 2 year old voice exclaim that whenever he accomplished something on his own. I'm stealing his material today.
Since high school, I have dreamt of owning studio lighting and real backdrops for photography. A friend of mine, who also did photography, decided to sell what she had collected - and I was the lucky person who bought it.
I. Am. Beyond. Excited. !!!!
After YEARS of using natural light from windows (and crossing my fingers we'd have enough of it!), there are no words for much I am looking forward to using this stuff with my business!
Shelly brought Harlow over for a quick "try out all this cool stuff" shoot - and they turned out AMAZINGLY! I was sooo excited to give them those pictures! What a massive difference using proper equipment makes!
Anyway, my own kiddos are going to have their share of pictures done this weekend, so I'll post a few of those yet to show off the back drops.
Here's my favorite of Harlow below, or you can check out my JV Photography blog here and see some more of her, and other samples I've put up in the past.
I can still hear Zachary's little 2 year old voice exclaim that whenever he accomplished something on his own. I'm stealing his material today.
Since high school, I have dreamt of owning studio lighting and real backdrops for photography. A friend of mine, who also did photography, decided to sell what she had collected - and I was the lucky person who bought it.
I. Am. Beyond. Excited. !!!!
After YEARS of using natural light from windows (and crossing my fingers we'd have enough of it!), there are no words for much I am looking forward to using this stuff with my business!
Shelly brought Harlow over for a quick "try out all this cool stuff" shoot - and they turned out AMAZINGLY! I was sooo excited to give them those pictures! What a massive difference using proper equipment makes!
Anyway, my own kiddos are going to have their share of pictures done this weekend, so I'll post a few of those yet to show off the back drops.
Here's my favorite of Harlow below, or you can check out my JV Photography blog here and see some more of her, and other samples I've put up in the past.
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