The day started out good with all of us sleeping in a bit (except for me) before hitting the slopes. Lori dropped us off a bit before 10am and we headed up the lift. Everything was fine until about an hour in when Jag took a spill and put out his hands which is a natural reaction. Well it turns out he broke his right arm in two places a bit above the wrist. We could tell right away as he was in pain and it was swelling up. Lori picked us up and we headed right over to the hospital emergency room, ching ching $$$$!
It took us a good hour to get x-rays and see the doctor but once he came in and found out who we were (we know lots of people at the hospital) he took really good care of us. You see Jagger had seen the top hand and arm specialist from the Steadman Clinic (same place that did Lori’s neck) when he broke his elbow so his name was on his chart. Anyhow the ER doctor called Dr. Viola (the specialist) who was on call to look at Jag’s x-rays. He determined that it was best not to try to set it until at least Monday if at all. Next week is the Birds of Prey Downhill which is the World Cup Ski Race in Beaver Creek and Dr. Viola is working with all the international teams for the whole week but said he’d come in early Monday morning to see Jagger. So Monday morning at O dark thirty Jag and I will head back up to Vail.
We thought of just staying until then but Ty has Ameritown which is a big thing for all 5th graders and Ty is the President of the University and has to be there! So about 3:30 we loaded up the car and headed down the hill to Denver. Too bad as I’m really skiing well, ha ha. It’s almost freaky how well I’m skiing, hope it keeps up!
We made it home by 6pm as there were a couple of accidents that slowed us down. Jag is doing fine and even opted not to take any pain pills. Today we’re running back up into the mountains to cut our Christmas tree as we didn’t get to it yesterday. We’ll also try to get the rest of our lights up as tis the season!
So that’s it for us, can you believe it? Another hospital visit and more medical bills, wow! All we could do is laugh. I told Jag not to worry as he’s getting all his medical issues out of  the way while he’s young. He was a real trooper as I could tell it hurt bad. He told me he thought he was going to throw up from the pain so you know it was bad. Wonder what’s in store for us next, maybe we should have a contest!
And lest I forget, Happy Birthday Annette!!
God Bless.