We are in a holding pattern right now, waiting for Alex to have surgery on his hand tomorrow. He was at karate sparring class last week and his hand block met a kick in the wrong way and one crack later, Alex had broken his hand. We thought it was a minor break, the ER just bandaged it up and referred us to an ortho the next week. However, upon getting to the ortho, more X-rays showed his ring finger knuckle had started collapsing. Not good, especially since he is left-handed and this was his left hand. The bone is also twisted a little (the third metacarpal) and shortened by about 6.5 mm, which doesn't sound like much but in looking at his hand, it seemed like the knuckle had moved halfway down his hand!
So, he will need surgery and a titanium plate and screws to put him back together again. Bummer! It seems like the pain and anxiety of the break dredged up a lot of old feelings also, we have revisited many topics I thought we done and gone, but obviously not. The whole house is on lock down to prevent any sick people in - the last thing he needs is to go into general anesthesia with a cold.
He was initially fussy that everyone was making such a big deal about him, he kept saying, “I got hurt worse than this before and no one cared about me.” But I keep telling him, this is what families do - they support each other and make sure the world stops for the person that needs it. Daddy John flew in from Europe yesterday to come home and G4 cut short a camping trip to be here.
In other news, my book was finally published! YAY! I feel so relieved and can move on with the other projects that were noodling around before the adoption. Here is the link on Amazon - please everyone spread the word.
And here is a picture of the cover.
Alex was a little miffed to see a picture of himself on the cover, but then he kept asking, “Will I be famous?” I laughed and told him, I hope so because that means it is selling well!
