Faith, Family, Interests, Journal, Photos, and Travels

Sunday evening, after baseball practice, Brody was playing kickball. He swung really hard with his leg and whiffed, hurting his leg. Today, he was in bad pain. Jared took him to the ER. They thought he had detached a ligament from his hip. Next, Jared took him down to Pittsburgh, to Children’s Hospital. It turns out the problem is not with a ligament, rather, he fractured his femur, the longest and strongest bone in the body. The last I heard tonight was that he was getting morphine for the pain and he would need to be off of it for several weeks. I don’t know if he got home or if they kept him overnight.  

This evening we had a carnival at church to kickoff this week’s VBS which starts on Monday. The street was closed and several things were setup down in our parking lot. The carnival was open to the community. There was no charge for anything. We had hotdogs, popcorn, cotton candy, face-painting and several inflatable rides. Many showed up. And, we had lots of people from the church who came out to help setup and to run things. I spent a couple of hours getting kids on and off one of the inflatables. The weather was spectacular. It turned out to be quite an evening.

I couldn’t get Danny up today, so he missed the Y for the first time in several days.

Frank and Lue drove back home from Virginia.

Friday July 12, 2019

Since Frank and Lue are away, I picked up Danny at 9 am to go to the Y. 

I got the rest of my trees and pushes wheeled around back but they were too wet to burn. 

Frank and Lue left for a wedding in Virginia. Lori (Myers, Songer) Wagner’s son is getting married.

Missy learned that she needs her gallbladder out as soon as possible. She called her Crohn's's' doctor to see if she should have it done at Presby. They said yes, and it seems she may have it done down there on July 22, a day before her birthday.

I had my six-month checkup with Dr. Brooks. Everything was fine. I told him that I have been having a lot of pain in my left foot. He told me that it could be a stress fracture. If so, I would need to wear a boot for several days. If not, he suggested wrapping it after soaking in epsom salt. He showed me some exercises to try. The exercises helped right away. I left his office and got the x-rays. They showed nothing broken nor any other problem.

After prayer meeting, I went out to the Little League Field to watch the 10 and under championship game. Clarion blew Oil City away. Brody played left field and made two very good running catches. Clarion will play in the Section 1 tournament next week in Brookville.