Scott's Arm

I'm sure by now that everyone has heard that Scott is unable to fly - or leap semi-short fences. (although in his defense I think that the fence just sucks and needs to be replaced) The break in his arm was pretty terrible, by the time that they got him to the emergency room his left arm was 3 inches shorter then his right. It was a terrible hospital experience, so we need to be looking into a different hospital out here to be our primary care facility. Scott's arm left us in a bit of a bind. He is no longer able to care for Deakin and I don't have time to be full-time caretaker and law student. (So how do I have time to blog you might ask? I just got the baby to go to sleep and I have a little time before I have to go pick Scott up from the metro - not really enough time to dive into a paper)

We are very lucky to have helpful family and friends. Scott's mom flew out the day he broke his arm and so she and I traded off baby duty and hospital time. Scott's bestman Meridith (Uncle Mimi to Deakin) came down for a week to watch the kiddo while I caught up on school work and went to class. And several of my fellow law school classmates took turns watching Deakin at school so that I could go to my lectures. Deakin did get to come to one of my classes - he is getting well educated in the relation between law and economics! I want to thank everyone that helped us (although most of them don't read this so I will be thanking them on Facebook as well

My mom is flying out tomorrow and staying with us until graduations are over. My poor dad is giving her up for 6 weeks - hopefully he will be able to make it out to visit at least once before graduations to help split up his solitude (not that he doesn't have a vast network of family at home to keep him company).

So anyways, thanks to everyone to has helped out and to everyone that has been thinking about us. Here are a couple of pictures. There is an identical incision on the other side of his arm as well, because he broke both bones in his forearm they had to go in and place plates and screws. If I can get the x-rays to scan I will post those later as well.