Last year on father’s day we participated in Chad and Jenni Greenway’s Gridiron Gallop 5K run/walk supporting youth athletics. This year we walked again. If you recall, last year, I had just had my rib removed the week prior and I was about to have vein surgery the next day.

Gridiron Gallop 2015

This year, it was great to be feeling healthy and strong! Travis stopped to use the restroom and told me he would catch up and to keep walking. It may have been a little cruel but, I started to jog a little 🙂 He still caught up to me but he definitely had to put in more effort. Maybe that’s how we shaved off six minutes from our time last year! After the morning exercise we relaxed at home for a little while. Later on we celebrated father’s day at my parents house where my brother grilled dinner.

Happy Birthday to my good friend Annie who turned forty on Wednesday! We met at Lake Nokomis for lunch and a cupcake. I’m so happy I was able to meet up with her! Happy 4.0 Annie!

Annie turns 40!

Late last Monday, Travis was outside fixing a couple of our wood bar stools. He decided to use a big old buck knife to remove the glue and score the wood preparing to glue it again. Let’s just say he had a little fight with the knife and the knife won, Travis lacerated his thumb!

We attempted to stop the bleeding but after about ten minutes, I could see it was pretty deep and definitely was going to need sutures. We headed to urgent care where the doctor thought Travis possibly cut a tendon so he stitched him up and told him to see the hand surgeon in the next couple of days.

The discharge nurse told us to call the next day to schedule an appointment with the surgeon that was on call that night. Both Travis and I told the nurse that was not the name the doctor had given us. She insisted it was and told us she was listening to the conversation. Sure enough, when I called the following day to the name the nurse gave us, that doctor had been out of the country for two weeks and wasn’t going to be back for another couple of weeks.

After about six hours of frustration on the phone and getting nowhere with the urgent care center and their referral, we finally had a friend call in a favor to a hand surgeon.

Thanks to our friend, we met with the doctor on Thursday and Travis had surgery on Friday. When the surgeon came out to speak to me, he said it was worse than he had expected. Travis cut completely through both of his tendons and also cut half way through his joint. Yes, the knife won.

It was different being on this end of the medical spectrum. To see him laying there made me think about how amazing he has been during all the procedures and surgeries I have had. It is never easy seeing your loved one so vulnerable. Travis is a resilient man though! He went from this on Friday, at 11:30 in the morning…

Sleeping after surgery

To this at 7:30 Friday night!!

Shane and Danielle’s wedding

I have to stay healthy around here, two out of the three household members are all bandaged up! Honey has been wearing “the cone of shame” after being spayed and now Travis has at least a two month recovery. My poor babies!Friday night, we attended our friends, Shane and Danielle’s, wedding. Travis was a trooper, I think the pain killers might have assisted his willingness to stay out for the evening.Saturday, Travis was once again a trooper. I had a bunch of family in town from Canada to attend my second cousins wedding. It was a lovely wedding on a boat on Lake Minnetonka.

My cousin Edwin & his new wife Eileen

Afterwards, our extended family came back to our house so we could spend more time together. There were some family members that I haven’t seen in over nineteen years! It was a bit of a family reunion.