A Bit of a Whirlwind

Spring Break has not turned out the way I anticipated. Having a “stay-cation”, I envisioned, many trips to the rec center; movies; shopping; and much more.

Monday morning I took Mike to the Orthopedic specialist to review the status of his ankle. During the basketball season, he sprained his right ankle multiple times. Some of the sprains looked like he had a baseball attached to his ankle. We had been advised during the season that ankle surgery may be imminent.

Within a couple minutes the doctor had determined Mike’s problem and said he needed reconstructive ankle surgery. Surgery was scheduled for the next day.

Surgery was in the afternoon, and this morning when I couldn’t find him, I opened the garage and found him cleaning the garage. He warms my heart with his quite kindness.

Surgery went well. He was a little “agitated” after surgery so the anesthesiologist gave him more meds. To say the least, he has slept a lot, which is good. On the way home he was acting very strange. He started singing very loudly in the back seat and then would all of a sudden fall asleep again. I was laughing so hard, I wanted to video it, but thought driving was more important.

The recovery is 3 weeks on crutches, 3 weeks in a boot, and 5 months until he can play a game of basketball. He can run, shoot, bike, whatever, just not play in a game of basketball for 5 months.

He’s not a sit-around-the-house kind of guy, so this could be challenging for the next little while.

Fortunately, the older kids have been filling in for me with entertaining Ben and Lizzy. Sarah took them both to City Creek today for lunch and shopping. Lizzy got tons of cute clothes (thank you Forever 21 for making that possible), and Ben got a Bull’s hat. Happy kids, not all is lost.