JAKE STILL HAS HIS SMILE

JUSTIN HAS BEEN A REALLY BIG HELP TO HIS BROTHER.

JAKE IS RECOVERING FROM KNEE SURGERY

Jake is at home now. When I stopped by the house, he was still on pain meds. His baseball coach called and told him that he was number 22 on the team this year. He will only sit in the dugout because his doctor said he could not play...He will be in a brace for two months..Jake had a MRI before the operation but the Dr. would read the MRI thought what Jake had was just a bulging or pinched meniscus...IT WAS WORSE. When the Orthopedic Dr went inside his knee he found a tear and the meniscus had flapped back over itself and was being pinched in the joint...thus the pain and inability to walk. (That is the bad news.) THE GOOD NEWS...where he tore it was the best place to do it, and a good chance of healing....Good blood supply and all that...He has it stiched back together and he will have to keep it straight and go through physical therapy but "it will heal". He is a ten year old with an adult injury...The doctor said this was an old injury that he kept re-injuring. We thought it was a pulled ligament because his leg kept locking up and the pain was horrible...but it was the torn meniscus being pinched..So Jake is at home mending, Mo is at home mending, Meg is at home mending..So if things happen in threes, we're done! I have to go to the VA hospital tomorrow for a consult with a plastic surgeon...I think I'll have him put my chest back where it belongs, it seems to have slipped to around my waist...No this is not a fun visit but a necessary one...More on thaaaaaaaat later...

JUST JAKE

Jake is so full of life, and Justin has always been his inner strength. When Tuesday rolls around please keep them both in your prayers. They do wonders these days but knee surgery for a ten year old has to be frightening...