The Week in Review

I really meant to blog Monday after Leroy's pre-op appointment.....but here it is Saturday night and I'm finally sitting down. Not for lack of forgetting, simply because I'm exhaused after working split shifts since October. Up at 3am work 4 hours back home for 6 hours then back to work at 2 to finish out the day. In a way Leroy going in for surgery is a vacation for us.

On to the good stuff.....the pre-op appointment was a real eye opener. I got to see Leroy's MRI pics and saw for myself how serious this really is. There is basically no spinal fluid going past his C-3 & C-4 vertebrae. It is like the Dr. said, "black & white" there's no if's and's or but's about it. The dr answered all my questions and was happy I had questions. I'm really happy with his dr and am confident that Leroy will be out of pain soon.

According to his doctor this is all caused by nothing more than bad luck. Yup, no lifting dangers or crazy things, just plain old bad luck. Hopefully after surgery & physical therapy we can function as a normal pain free family again. No watching the time to see if it's time to take pain meds yet or making sure we have extra pills when we are out somewhere.
In other news....Derrick had his first scrape. I know he's 5 and all but my baby boy was bleeding! From what I got, he and another girl crashed on the playground. She got the worst of it and scraped up her chin.














In other Hot Wheels related news Leroy & the kids went to K-Days at KMart for their November event. Danae found her first Super Treasure Hunt. The kids are old enough now and Leroy has taught them the good cars to look for =) (Ignore the hair, it was a bad curl day) Notice the words on the wall behind Danae? It's Derrick'sword list he's almost done with #5 & only needed 4 to get through kindergarten! Yay!!!!