Justin's Dilemma

I surely know how worried you are about Justin. He's so close to graduating, but the question is, will he be able to work afterward? I know he's in a lot of pain right now, but just try to do what the doc says. I wish he could go to my chiropracter, but wish on! Sometimes life seems so arbitrary and unfair. We never know how we can grow from these incidents, but we do none-the-less. Please convey to Justin my deep understanding of his situation. I spent years in misery without relief. I will tell you - God does hear and answer our prayers. Even though I spent so many years suffering I knew one day I would find the right doc and get the help I needed for so long. May God bless you all in finding the answers for Justin. Remember, I love you all.

Justin's Accident

This has been a busy week. Justin has been seen by the Dr. everyday this week. He is so bad right now that the Dr. has ordered an MRI for Tuesday and will be sent for a second opinion this upcoming week. He is scared that he will be let go because of the car accident and so that is causing a lot of stress. I have not been sleeping as he has such a rough time as well. He had a set back today as he moved wrong yesterday and he can hardly stand up straight today. The xrays the Dr took show his right shoulder and hip are about 1 inch higher than the left side. He also has a lot of compression in the spine and cervical area too. We are hoping that in the next week that it will continue to improve.
I need to head to bed and will hopefully be able to write more tomorrow and have a little time to breathe. I need to stop for a couple of hours.

Weekend was good and not so good....

This past weekend started out good. Friday we attended a BBQ with the others in the graduating class. We had gone up to Arlington to the Navy Radio Station Jim Creek. It is in the foothills outside of Everett and it is also a huge camp area for people in the military. There are lakes, trails, campgrounds, cabins, picnic areas, etc. It was just beautiful.

A couple of the guys had not been pepper sprayed and so the remainder of the class helped out in getting them qualified. After it was all done, Michael went to Bryan and John the two instructors and asked if he could do the fight for life but not get sprayed. They were happy to oblige. In fact, they said for being 11 Michael did better than some of the men.

Michael was supposed to disarm one guy and fight with his baton. Michael misunderstood and he threw his baton down took the one away from the guy he was fighting and took him down. Everyone was just laughing but he did really well.

John is on the left and Bryan on the right

We left in the afternoon and came home to Silverdale. It was nice to be home. Michael had a baseball game early on Saturday morning. We were not sure that it would be played as it was raining and so we had to check with the coach. They played. It was hard to score the game, deal with an umbrella and the cold. I do not think it got above 45 during the day. My hands were so stiff and we were wet. Sad to say, they lost. Oh well. Another game Tuesday. Thank goodness this weekend is a bye weekend. We can have guests and not feel bad about missing a game.

Sunday we went to church and had a great day together. Justin's buddy, Tim was picking him up late about 9pm for them to get back to the academy. I got a call from Justin shortly after 10:15 pm and he let me know that they were in a hit and run accident. Tim, his wife Brittany, their 7 week old son and Justin were rear ended at about 40+ mph. Justin and Brittany got the worst of it. Tim was in the back with the baby. Justin and Tim were quick enough and got the license plate of the car that hit them. The police insisted that they be checked out. I did finally hear from Justin at about 2 AM. They were all checked out and Justin has a severe whiplash. Baby Dominic is untouched. Brittany has back issues. Tim other than stiff and sore seems to be okay at this point. I contacted their instructors and the local department to let them know what is going on. They are going to follow up on them to make sure they are ok.

What a weekend!