8.05.10

Monet at 15 Months

7.30.10

Larry is home from the hospital and he is, well... hurting to say the least. They had a block in his neck which numbed the right side of his body and now that it's out he has a lot of pain. He is really happy to be home though. We are thinking there are probably better days after this weekend.

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This is a photo at the Colorado hospital right after his accident. His friends wife was in there with him and she took the photo.

7.28.10

SURGERY:

Larry went in this morning at 5:30am it's about 9:30am here, and I just got a call from my mom, who just talked to the Doctor. They are just finishing his shoulder. He said everything went really well. It was extremely shattered and twisted, so they put in a few screws and a plate and then scoped everything to make sure it was put together well. He seemed really happy with it. They will move him into a room in a little while and he'll stay one night maybe two.

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Thank you all so much for your kind messages, phone calls, visits, prayers, emails. You are all so sweet.

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Now, he's officially on the road to recovery, yeah!

7.26.10

SURGERY WEDNESDAY:

They are going to do surgery first thing Wednesday morning. There is a young doctor who seems pretty confident in performing it. I guess they will go through the back of the shoulder instead of the front to avoid that nerve. He will be in the hospital overnight and home sometime Thursday.

7.24.10

Larry's side. This continues up under his arm but I didn't want him to hurt his shoulder to prove it. The grimace smile explains enough. Cute Chloe and Wyatt at our 24th of July BBQ Saturday night.

7.23.10

FRIDAY- SURGERY SCHEDULE:

Yesterday evening the shoulder Dr came over to the house. He sat down with a note pad and pen and showed us what Larry's shoulder now looks like. His shoulder blade is fractured in a few different places, with pieces of bone floating around. He said they won't do anything to this part of the shoulder, that it will have to heal on its own. The part that they are concerned about is where the shoulder fits into the socket. There is a piece in the shoulder called the glenoid, which is where the shoulder and the socket meet (kind of, hard to explain). This piece in Larry's shoulder is broken off and and also floating, twisted. So this is where it gets a little scary. In order to fix this they need to screw that piece back in place. The problem is that there is a nerve at the bottom of the shoulder socket that if it's tampered with it will cause permanent paralysis to his right arm. The Dr said to us that he doesn't know what they will do to fix it. He is going to meet with three other specialist this weekend and they are going to look at the xrays and get a plan to put this back together. Best case scenario is that they will start the surgery on Monday, but we won't know until Sunday night if that's for sure.

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The Dr said that he has never seen a break to the shoulder this bad. He also said that if he would have hit his head it would have been instant death, there is no way he would have survived a crash that hard to his neck or brain. We all felt a little sick to our stomachs to hear that.

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I'll post some pictures in the next day or so. He has some bruising that's pretty crazy.(!)

7.20.10

TUESDAY:

Dad, mom and Riley made it home about 7 last night. He said the car ride wasn't too bad and he was just really happy to be home. He is really swollen, I told him he looks like he gained 20 pounds. He's in a lot of pain. We set up a couch and footstool for him to sleep on in their room. I guess he has to sleep sitting up or awhile. I think the next step is to get some heart tests done and to schedule this surgery. He's hoping to do it as soon as possible so he can get on the road to recovery. Thanks for the emails and comments. He's very appreciative. Love to you all.