Get Well Soon, Grandaddy!

The past couple of weeks have been challenging. We have been extemely busy and I have had tons of stress at work and home. First grade has taken over our nights. We eat supper, do homework, go over spelling words, read, and sleep. There is little time for anything else. Just when I thought things couldn't get much worse, my daddy had an accident. Last Thursday, he was checking on some loggers working on his land and somehow stepped on a piece of wood that popped up and hit the back of his leg. Since he is on so much blood thinner, it caused a hematoma. This caused his leg to swell like crazy. He got to the ER and at first they were just going to send him to a dr in Jackson, but quickly decided to call Aircare. UMC was the only option since he was flying in. It was so urgent because the swelling had circulation to his foot and leg muscles cut off. His foot was numb and he was at risk of losing his foot and muscle tone in his leg. To make a long story short, what was suppose to be emergency surgery did not happen until 7:00 that night. He got to UMC around 1:00 that afternoon. We are NOT impressed with UMC. Everyone we saw told us something different. They cut him from his knee to his ankle on both sides of his leg. The wound is open and has wound vac tubes coming from it. They sent him home Saturday night. He is doing pretty good. He hasn't been in too much pain, but everything is just aggravating. He is gone back to UMC today for a dressing change and will go back Friday for another surgery to close up his wounds and possibly do skin grafts. Such a simple thing has caused such a huge ordeal! I feel for my Momma. She hasn't had a full nights rest in almost a week now. Please keep them in your prayers!!

Friday night the boys were making Grandaddy some get well pictures. We had promised to take them to see him Friday night but since he was suppose to get to come home Saturday morning we decided not to. And plus I was still so tired from Thursday.

This was after 10:00 P.M., so they had stripped down for the night!!