Too many visits in too little time...

Sunday afternoon we went over to the Meckers (Brendon's girlfriends house) to watch the afternoon session of conference. While we were watching the younger boys went outside. They decided it was okay to ride bikes without asking. (It's not something we let the boys do at home on Sunday) We'll the next thing we know Nathan who is the same age as Jensen comes running in saying Jensen is hurt. I'm thinking a small bump or bruise. Boy was I wrong, when he fell off of the bike the break handle punctured his left thigh and made a hole about the size of penny. I was pretty sure we needed to head on in but made a quick phone call to Dr. Claypool just to check. Well 4 1/2 hours and 5 stitches later we were home.

The next day I tootled off to Bellingham after getting kids out the door. I was worried since I had locked the front door and was about 20 minutes late getting home. I thought the girls had to find an unlocked window and crawl in. I walked in the house and called for them and said I was sorry I was late and asked what window they had to use. Mackenzie said, "Oh, it was OK, Brendon was home. He broke his back." She didn't even seem very worried.

What had happened was just after Brendon had got to work a wall that they were getting ready to take down fell on him. Luckily it still had part of the roof on it otherwise I'm sure it would have been worse. They had to call an ambulance to take him to the ER. He was nice enough to wait and call his dad after he was done so he didn't get the joy of sitting for another 3 hours like the night before. Strangely enough the wall had be leaning(on a tree) the opposite way that it fell onto Brendon. So they have no idea how it could have happened.

Brendon is now home on his back for a week and is not to return to work for 3 weeks. It's only day 3 and I think he's bored out of his mind. We are just grateful his okay. He has a small chip on one of his vertebrae and is in a lot of pain.

So I wonder what is the record for the most family members in an ER in the shortest amount of time with different injuries? We can say just 12 hours from when we left with Jensen until about when Brendon arrived. Not bad!