Storytelling Sunday

Welcome to Sian's Storytelling Sunday. On the first-Sunday-of-the-Month Sian over at From High In The Sky gives us a chance to share our stories. Any story at all. It doesn't have to be a big one. It doesn't have to be a clever one. It can be a very small one indeed. We'd still love to hear it. Or see it! If someone finds it more fun to tell their story with pictures, please, let's have a look: short, long, a few sentences, or many more? Sian and her followers will take stories anyway we care to offer them!


I thought I knew exactly which story I would share today. I have know for a month. Sian gave an optional prompt yesterday but I was set, I just need to scan the photos and type up the story. The Chosen One, the boys and I attended the 1996 Olympics and I wanted to share that story. It seemed very appropriate, don't you think? But that is the not the story I will share today. My world was rocked this week. While volunteering at a church art camp Tuesday I looked up from what I was doing and saw the face of the Pirate. I asked why he was there and he just nodded his head to the right implying come with me. My cell phone was in a storage closet so I was unaware the Chosen One had texted and called. The Pirate felt a personal visit was called for. The Beast had been in an accident and was at the small medical facility in the town next to ours. He was eventually transferred to the big medical center in our city. He had surgery Wednesday afternoon. A 2-3 hour surgery that took 5 1/2 hours. He had chipped the bone in his left ankle (nothing to be done) and fractured two vertebrae (heal on it's own)...which is not nearly as serious as it implies. The worst injury was to his left wrist. It was grossly dislocated and badly broken. 

The next photo is a bit yucky so if you have a weak stomach scroll fast!  Actually, I find the one above more disturbing, this one is just blood on the ace bandage.
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 3 days post surgery

He is not getting very long periods of sleep so we are very grateful when he drifts off in the middle of something. The blue thing covers the external fixator. He has a long and hard recovery ahead of him. Because he is a mechanic he will not be able to do his job for a long time. Prayers for his healing and patience with that process are greatly appreciated.


I think overall I am a person that stays very aware of the blessings in life but I have spent an inordinate amount of time this week thanking God for my loved ones, for this Beast that to me is still my little boy. 



Do you have a story to share? We'd love to read it, feel free to link up at From High In The Sky and if not this month, we do it the first Sunday of every month :)

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