Sunday was Mary's 60th birthday, February 14. Maija, Brad and Scott came up to celebrate it with her and Maija's and Brad's present for her was to tell her that Maija is pregnant! WOW!
Both Mary and I had given up hope of ever becoming grand parents. Every time the subject would come up with the kids they would indicate they weren't planning on having any children. They told us that around Maija's birthday last November they changed their minds and decided to have a baby and now she is expecting on September 20th of this year. Both Mary and I are sooooo excited!
Now some bad news.
A few days before Mary's birthday she was coming down to go to bed and tripped on the second to the last step going downstairs, fell and broke her ankle really bad. We had to call 911 for an ambulance because I couldn't move her. I had always worried that the ambulance wouldn't be able to find us when called so this was a chance to see if they could find our house. They got to the cell phone tower in front of our house and I then directed them in. It only took them a half hour to get here from Big Lake. She was transported to the new hospital in Palmer where they x-rayed her ankle and found it broken in 3 places. The doctor said she had basically broken her foot off the bottom of her leg. You could see the big leg bone, the tibia, under the skin about midway down her foot. The doctor tried to set it with me holding Mary but it kept dislocating so he called a specialist in. Dr. Benadety(sp?) operated on her to install external pins and wires to keep her foot in place until the swelling went down enough for him to open her leg up and install permanent pins and metal plates. We got the internal fix done last Thursday and things seem to be progressing normally. Luckily our big bedroom that we normally sleep in was built to be used as a bed and breakfast room so it was built with handy cap access. Mary has only had to spend one night in the hospital so far. She is able to get around a little with the aid of a walker. I still have to help her with some things that I wont describe but having everything available on the ground floor and no steps at all to negotiate is a real blessing. We are trying to build her upper body strength so she can get around on crutches.
More bad news came earlier in the same day of Mary;s accident. Pike, Mary's sister, emailed her that their brother Vesa was close to death from cancer. Vesa is a real loner and has communicated very little with any of his siblings so this was the first that anyone knew that he was even sick. Pike said the doctors told her Vesa had only days to live but it has been almost 2 weeks now.
February 2010 has been a pretty shitty month except for the fact that I'M GONNA BE A GRANDPA!
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