Dave's humongous hand of owiness!

Last weekend I was uploading pictures from our amazing family vacation to disneyland and two beautiful beaches when I was interrupted by the all too familiar sound of Dave screaming "Lenore! Emergency room! Now!" as he opened the back door and blood gushed from his hand. Within 3.2 seconds I had the kids run over the neighbors, wrapped his hand ( which looked like it was cut in half) in a large towel and drove down the street to the ER! Dave had been outside cleaning off the kids treehouse, noticed the weakness of the steps, and as he went down he broke a step,and reached out to stop himself. His hand caught on a screw and tore through his hand and finger, luckily not catching on a ring! He would've lost a finger easily. So after 19 stitches and awful pain, he underwent surgery 3 days later to repair the nerve damage. Now he has a massive arm bandage/cast and can't wait to get the thing off this week. It's amazing how many things he can't do anymore, and it's his dominant hand. He cracks me up, though, by the things he tries to do with his one thumb sticking out of all of that business. Check out the excellent carrying of that Target bag!

Man we have so many projects that are just going undone and will be undone for the next month or so! Oh well, I just hope he gets the feeling back in his fingers. I took a picture of the deep cut before the stitches. Dave shows it to who's ever curious and brave enough! It's really awful! I said that it looks like that creature from the beginning of "star wars: empire strikes back", the ton-ton that Han Solo cuts open and sticks Luke Skywalker inside of! Yes, like all that fatty tissue and nastiness just oozing. This also explains why none of our awesome vacation photos ever got posted.