We had a stellar safety record on the remodel project. However, we found ourselves involved with the medical profession often in 2006 thanks to a few choice incidents:


We Be Jammin'
Early in 2006, Lizzie "jammed" her finger playing in a church league basketball game. This of course was the diagnosis of her experienced father - he knows a jammed finger when he sees one. Tough it out, tape it up, play the second half. It will be just fine. Well, two days later the doctor and the x-rays said otherwise.

Lizzie also had some planned surgery to extract her wisdom teeth and come through this with typical puffy cheeks and some pain but without dry sockets or any other complications. Whew!

Hoops is a Contact Sport
Harrison has developed a bit of competitive fire on the basketball court. As a member of the freshman basketball team at Cherry Creek High School, Harrison has learned to use his fouls and (so far) let his competitive drive earn him a bloody nose from a hard foul at the end of a game, an elbow to the jaw and mouth (Harrison sort of doing the fouling that time) and a hard knock on the head from a nice pro wrestling move by his opponent as they made a dive for a loose ball. Harrison left the court woozy and his teammate Maurice made the foul shots for Harrison. More to come on this, we are sure, because the season is only half over.


Big, Big Air
Will caught a bit of big air off a quarter pipe wall in the terrain park at Keystone. Problem was, Will did this neat trick while on a run by himself and failed to negotiate a landing from which he could ski away. The groggy kid at least could tell the ski patrol that his dad works for a company called Johns Manville. Scott got a call at work from the Keystone Medical office informing him that they had his son Will, and Will was, of course, injured. Scott located Jenifer via cell phone and she immediately skied down to join Will. Jenifer had been looking for Will for about 45 minutes after he did not appear at the appointed meeting place after his solo ski run. After a few hours waiting for Will to regain his senses and a CAT scan and x-rays, Will had learned the value of wearing a ski helmet and that concussions require you to take certain precautions -- like not sleeping for more than two hours at a time for the first night. Dad took the duty to sleep and wake, sleep and wake the boy. Keystone called the next day to tell us that their examination of the x-rays suggested compression fractures in Will's back. No wonder he was complaining about a pain between his shoulder blades. We had an orthopedic specialist check Will out and he said whether Will had fractures or not (probably not) the treatment was the same. So Will got to lay low for a week or so.

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