7.19.10

MONDAY MORNING:

I just spoke with my mom. She and Riley arrived about 7 pm last night. My dad was extremely happy to see them. Riley said the hospital is like a mountain retreat. He was wishing he could check into a room for a weekend getaway.

They are doing some final testing on Larry and are planning on sending him home this afternoon. They are still watching the enzymes in his bloodstream. They also are watching his oxygen levels. Sounds like they are assuming once the altitude level changes that they will be closer to normal. They are at 9,000 feet. I felt a little worried that they are releasing him while they are still watching all of these things, but my mom assured me that they will do a full analysis of his heart before they perform surgery on his shoulder next week.

7.18.10

SUNDAY

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Right now my mom and Riley are about two hours from Breckenridge, it'll take them about 61/2 hours to get there.

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I spoke to my dad earlier this afternoon. He explained to me what's going on. I guess he was going pretty fast, took a corner and the next thing he knew he was headed straight for a tree. He said it came so fast he didn't even touch his breaks. I guess that explains how his shoulder is so crushed. The Dr said you would have to hit extremely hard to break it the way he did. They now know that he also broke the bottom third of his shoulder socket, which means his shoulder won't fit back together. They will have to do surgery, but he will do it once he comes back home. They also can see some weird enzymes in his blood which indicates he bruised his heart pretty bad, so they are keeping him another night to check on that. They also want to keep him to check on that one lung. He's been doing certain breathing exercises to keep the water off his lungs so he doesn't get pneumonia. The Dr said that his one side (of his ribs) is really swollen, which is why the pain is bearable right now, I guess once the swelling goes down the pain will increase because there will be nothing there to support.

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If all goes well he will be able to come home tomorrow. My mom and Riley will drive him back.

7.17.10

STATUS ON LARRY: SATURDAY

Yesterday my dad and three other bike friends went to Breckinridge Colorado to ride in a mountain bike race. The race was today. It was 70 miles. I'm not exactly sure how many hours into the race he was, and I'm not exactly sure how the crash occurred, but he wrecked and hit a tree. I believe he then tumbled down a hill. He knew he was badly injured but had to walk out about 2 miles with bike (bike unharmed) until he reached an aide station. An ambulance took him to the hospital from there.

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We know that he has 7 broken ribs. He also completely shattered his scapula (shoulder blade.) He also did some damage to one of his lungs. They sent a photo of him in hospital and all of the skin is taken off his one shoulder from the tumble ( or tree?). They are going to have a specialist look at his shoulder to see if, and what, surgery needs to be done on his shoulder. They are going to watch him tonight to make sure his lung is OK as well. I believe in the morning they are going to test his breathing to see how long he needs to remain in the hospital. We will know in the morning if we have to take a trip out to Colorado to bring him home. We spoke to Mike Young (Dr) tonight and he said this is a horrendous injury. 7 broken ribs means basically no support on the one side. And a broken scapula is a long recovery. Pretty much this is going to be extremely painful.

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So we all are heart broken, he of course number one. He still wants to go to Leadville and we're all planning on going with him.

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Let you know when I have more info.

7.10.2010

Photos from Angels Landing

Swimming at the pool

Such a wonderful trip. Love to you all.

6.24.10

Last night Wolf and Costanza raced at Sundance.
Gabe and Monet...buds.

Sweet air... Gabe always breaking the rules.

6.11.10

Summer BBQ

6.01.10

Memorial Day at the cemetery.

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Becky & Monet Monet & Gabe. (I think Gabe is Monet's new favorite person.)

Great grand kids.

The newly miss 16, Monet and Wyatt.

All of the family (except Lindsay who was taking the photo.)

Sweet words from grandma.

Monet smelling the flowers on Grandpa Dave and Grandma Marians headstone.

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Afterwards we had dinner at grandmas.

Monet giving Jack one of many hugs.

Jack doing a balancing trick.

Max and Monet putting the ball into the bucket.

So lovely having Jeff and Shellie around.

It was a sweet day full of good memories.