Well it has definitely been an interesting week. Monday morning we were enjoying the fact that we didn't have to get up and out the door for school like we normally do when I got a phone call from Rick's roommate. He has called me before when he knew Rick hadn't called home in a day or two just to say "hey I told you if you don't call your wife I WILL" so I thought that was what was going on again. Turns out he was calling because Rick got hurt. He didn't have a lot of info other than he hit his head and they had to send him somewhere else, he being a friend to Rick wanted to give me a heads up first. So I sat and waited for a call from the Army. Of course that call never came so I went to bed that night praying that no news was good news. The next day I had a message on Yahoo from Rick saying he was in the hospital. A chaplain there had given him a laptop to use to watch movies on and stuff so he was able to get online and talk to me. He had absolutely NO memory of what happened to him. He only knows what other people told him, apparently they were playing football at work. They discharged him from the hospital on Wednesday and he moved into a tent behind the hospital. He had an appointment today and they think he is alright now. For now he is stuck in Balad waiting on someone to send his gear to him so he is allowed to fly back to Taji. Just what we needed around here for the holidays...... EXTRA STRESS! If after 3 deployments this is the worst injury he has I will be thankful.
We had to squeeze in a trip to Children's on Tuesday to have Aidan's elbow checked out, just a routine follow up. Of course I was thinking this would be the final one but no, they want to see him again this summer. Everything is fine but they are extra cautious with growing kids. They did say we could just schedule it for whenever we have to bring Ian back for his appointments which should be every 3 months. Saves me an extra trip to Seattle.
I managed to get all the presents wrapped and Santa was very good to the boys. If only he could have brought me a few extra hours of sleep! We are going to spend the rest of the break just hanging out at home.
I am looking forward to 2010 and hoping for a much less "exciting" year for us. Connor is the only one who has not been hospitalized this year! I hope I didn't just jinx us by saying that but boy have we had our share of doctor visits, surgeries and castings!
