Posts Tagged With: trauma
Another Trauma to His Foot!
I kept trying to wake up from this awful dream I was having. The kids ran into the kitchen where I was making lunch to tell me that Derek had hurt his foot again. Someone had dropped a weight from Daddy’s weight set onto his bad foot. This can’t be for real, can it? I [...]
Trauma Part 4: Skin Graft to Puppy Adventures
I was so lucky to have a friend offer to keep Jason and Troy overnight on Sunday night. They had never been on a sleep-over before and they were SO excited! When they get older, they will certainly brag to their friends that they slept over with two beautiful twin girls. But for now, they [...]
Trauma Part 3: A Chaotic Week
So now it is Monday. Again we woke up to a parade of doctors and nurses checking on his progress. It is hard to get used to waking up to so many strangers looking down at you first thing in the morning, but you get used to it after a while. I was supposed to [...]
Trauma Part 2: Surgery
Because I saw the wound on Derek’s foot, I was sure he was going to lose it. I was terrified, so I wanted to get to a hospital as fast as I could to save whatever was possible. I chose to take him to Shawnee Mission Medical Center right down the road. Once he got looked at [...]
Trauma: How Derek Got Hit By A Car
It was a red minivan, actually. We had just pulled into the driveway from picking Troy up from preschool. There were several neighbor kids walking home from school across the street. As three of my four of my kids and the two pups spilled out of our car, a couple of the kids asked if [...]
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