Haven't posted much as I've been rather busy. Last Sunday my wife fell while walking our dogs in the snow and broke her leg in two places. I was inside with our two kids. I didn't even know until I looked out the window and saw one of the dogs just standing by himself in the middle of a grassy area behind our house. I watched him for a bit, thinking that she let him off to play, as it snowed 20" the day before.
He just stood there and I didn't see her or the other dog, so I opened the blinds and saw her laying on the hillside. I opened the window to ask her what the hell she was doing laying in the snow. "I think I hurt my leg!"... oh sh1t..
So I had our 3 yr old and 1 yr old inside. So I blocked off all the trouble areas, and ran outside. The other dog was with her. Got the dogs in the house. She said she was trying to crawl back up the slope, but her leg hurt too much. She wanted me to move her, I did a bit, hurt a lot. So I said screw this and called an ambulance. They came, hauled her away (they fell a few times even) to the E-room.
I gather up kids and stuff and so go meet her there. They take Xrays (hoping for a sprain at this point.) Fubar. Broken in two places.
We were supposed to be going to Colorado in a few days for Xmas to see my family. Trip was for 2.5 weeks. My daughter was just born last year, so we didn't go then. Most of my fam has not met my daughter, and I haven't seen them in a while.
Had all these plans as well, take kids to museum, Estes Park, snowshoeing, maybe some horseback riding, lots of fam parties, dinner w/ my bro and his wife, and a private trip to hot springs w/ wife..... Plus my cousin got knocked up by one of the CO Avalanche, so we were going to get some free tix and prolly a trip into the locker room w/ the lucky dad-to-be.
Nope. No way. No plane rides. Wife was in hospital for 2 days. Luckily my parents got plane tix out here for cheap, so they were here in two days to help and stay for Xmas. Plus I had
all the gifts out there already, so they hauled them all out here for our kids to have their gifts. This turned out very well.
So all in all it was a good Xmas, kids got lots of stuff and we were able to put somethings together. Got a tree and all the decs out. Otherwise its been insanely busy. Not only do I have to watch both a 1 yo and 3yo mostly by myself, I have to help my wife do basic things and she is still in lots of pain. Plus we still have the dogs an our cat to take car of (I have to clean its nasty fraking cat box...its not my cat...yuk.) Managed to put on a nice holiday dinner w/ lots of help from my parents. This is the first decent sitdown I've had in 6 days and actually open my gifts. (Of course, my big gift, a bluray player, has handshaking issues with the receiver and doesn't work in HDMI [FU HDCP]..so I'm on RCM instead lol)
Unfortunately, my wife was supposed to have a rod put into her leg, but got into the OR, and they removed the splint only to find nasty fracture blisters (google that one..) so they couldn't do the surgery. She has to go back next week when the swelling goes down, so she's not really healing now, leg is very fragile and painful, and will be in hospital again.
So overall it was still a great holiday so far, but really crappy too. Great to be home w/ everyone and see kids enjoy Xmas, but will miss all my other family and the fun things we planned to do. Not at all to mention all the crap my wife is having to deal with. As busy as I am, she is equally idle, just stuck in the recliner w/ leg propped up and can't play with the kids, go outside or do
anything. What a frak-up. Maybe we'll laugh later about it tho..