A bump in the road that turned into a giant crater

In June I called it a bump in the road but now that has turned into and giant hole that has proven hard to cross. We are still sitting on the other side trying to figure out how to cross. If I was a chicken I would have figured it out by now. I can just hear it "how did the chicken cross the crater?" Answer would be something cleaver that I can't think of right now. But I digress

Craig has what is called a non union fracture. Which is short for very expensive and takes up lots of your time. After seven months of an external fixator last week in needed to come off before it fell out. The solution now is a bone graft and plate and screws. 

This is what we started with in June

What it looked like in August

November
As you can see we tried to stress the bone by taking screws out over time
the force some bone growth

this is what we have today

Another eight weeks wait to see if this solution will work. In the meantime Craig goes to Physiotherapy once a week. He gets laser treatment, ultrasound and electromagnetic treatment. Last week he also got some acupuncture. 

He loves going mostly because it is all about him.

This was before surgery on Tuesday

And after 

Joe is an attention hog and must be in every picture.

Craig has taken this all in stride and is just happy to be living in the house full time. 

If I had known how long this road was, I am not sure I would do anything different. Time will tell what the out come will be. I am very fortunate to be able to afford this whole ordeal. I really don't want to think about if this doesn't work out.  I picture a lot of liquor and some sort of ledge that my friends will have to pull me off.

Bring on the snow

Were ready to play with our new toy.

Kyle picked up the snow blower today.

I am a little concerned about all the wires that need to be connected. 

But Kyle seems confident. 

Notice the messy shop that goes along with the hoarding problem the dog has. 

Hoarders

On today's episode

"Guardian dogs who hoard"

Some of this stuff I don't even know where it came from.

He has piles in every field

That pile behind Bear on the other side of the fence would be my husbands hoarding problem. Which we will cover in a different episode.

Good Morning

Bear doing his thing

Veterinary train wreck

Somewhere in this house or on our property there is a broken mirror or a ladder that I keep walking under and don't even know it. As you all know Craig broke his leg in June and it is still an on going battle to get him fixed up. I don't think there has been a week go by this year that I haven't been to the vet or a physiotherapist. To top it off my dogs are now looking for ways to hurt them selves. A couple weeks ago Lisa and I loaded up the dogs and headed off the British Columbia for Holly's trial. When we left Meg had thrown up in her dog run but I thought nothing of it dogs do that sometimes. We Meg proceeded to get sick the whole way to Holly's. When we arrived I asked Wendy to look at Meg. She gave her expert opinion of WTF. I think x-rays are in order for the morning. Off I went to Holly's vet in Armstrong. And this is what we saw.

Kind of blurry because I took the picture with my cell phone but you get the idea.

Meg eat 3.5 pounds of rocks from her dog run.

Very unlike something she would do.

She was one sick puppy on the drive home. Didn't move an inch.

A week later we were back to the vet when she developed an abscess and it had to be drained. She was put on heavier antibiotics the help fight infection.

She is still on lock down but feeling much better.

As promised

Bad cell phone photos

Most days Joe didn't get up until around 10 AM

This was my view everywhere we went. Following Scott and Jenny. 

Amanda at Solider Hollow doing her movie interview after her run.

I love the VIP room at Solider Hollow

The famous Meeker statue.

Couple of Meeker locals. If the set out crew wore these outfits then maybe Meg would have seen her sheep up the field.

good times in the princess castle. Joe was the center of attention. I here Alison and him are BFF's now.

Alastair holding court as a webcast commentator. I am told he was very good at it.

Ten minutes from home after three weeks on the road.

What The Bacon!!!

Someone has learned a new trick

Hey where did my bacon go

JOE

Thank god your cute.

An ugly dog would never get away with this.