Annual Stephenville Parade with Dede & Pops, the kids had a ball! The kids enjoyed their time with Dede & Pops as always. In the evening they were riding their new pony, Shotgun. Dede texted me these two pictures with the caption: I'm having fun!
Shortly after this one, my phone rang. It was Dede, she said Macie broke her arm. What? Are you sure? Yes I'm sure. We debated what to do, Cleve was working what hospital should we go to? After hearing the pain she was in we decided Stephenville would be the best because it was such a long drive to Cooks. So they headed to Stephenville, Cleve left work and came to get me. They said to hold tight until we had X-ray results, in the meantime they gave her an IV (which was quite the ordeal) and some morphine, which she really needed. The X-ray was bad both bones broken just above the wrist. They said she needed to go to Cook's and by ambulance!
2+ hours around midnight she arrived at Cook's she was very talkative and in decent spirits. We finally were able to see her, it's very strange to be separated from your child at a time like this, but honestly I think she did better with her grandparents then she would have had we been there. We answered all the questions and finally saw the doc, he looked at the x-ray examined her and said that she would need to stay overnight and see the orthopedic surgeon in the morning. It was about 2 am at this point. Long, long night.
The morning came early and they said surgery at 9 am which turned into 10. Macie was quite the trooper and very brave. She received this prayer bear from some sweet volunteers and the cute monkey from our neighbor who happened to be working that day. After she was done we had to stay in recovery until she got the green like to go home. Then we were off with pain meds and a hot pink cast!
One of the first things Macie said to us when she woke up was Can I have stickers to put on my cast, she couldn't wait to decorate it. Her Daddy was happy to help her with that!
We came home late afternoon and took it very easy, she got a bath I painted her toes and fingers (hot pink of course). Since the kids didn't get to do fireworks last night we shot off a few in the broad daylight, there was no way they were making it too much longer. Macie said she was the pretty pink unicorn princess! She has been really excited about her cast and milking it to the max!
We are so grateful to all of our amazing friends, family and neighbors. What an outpour of love we were shown from you all! It means so much to know how much people truly care. I'm so thankful that God protected her, I know that as inconvenient as the cast is it could have been so much worse. He is so good, all the time!
