{"id":1470,"date":"2011-01-01T23:46:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T04:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2011-01-01T23:46:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T04:46:43","slug":"on-a-dime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1470","title":{"rendered":"On a dime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, a quick run-down on the last few days.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, we drove about 2 1\/2hrs to a Christmas get-together with Randy&#8217;s family&#8230;lots of fun, Dylan met tons of extended family members and did great.\u00c2\u00a0 We dropped 3 of the kids off at their cousin&#8217;s house to stay till we could pick them up today.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, we were scrambling to get ready for another 2 1\/2hr Christmas get-together trip\u00c2\u00a0 &#8211; this time with my extended family.\u00c2\u00a0 The little kids were playing on and around the stairs, I was packing a bag of things we&#8217;d need for the trip.\u00c2\u00a0 I heard Dylan jump and cry out a little, Randy grabbed him up to give him hugs&#8230;and, then took off his pants to check out his leg.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s not supposed to look like that.\u00c2\u00a0 And, for some strange reason\u00c2\u00a0(I think we were both\u00c2\u00a0clinging to denial), we decided that I should go ahead\u00c2\u00a0and drive towards our planned destination while he took Dylan to the ER to be checked out.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;d\u00c2\u00a0drive over as\u00c2\u00a0soon as they were done.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About 1 hour into my drive, Randy calls to say\u00c2\u00a0Dylan has a complete break of the femur in his little leg,\u00c2\u00a0they&#8217;re transferring him\u00c2\u00a0via ambulance to a\u00c2\u00a0children&#8217;s hospital, and he&#8217;ll most likely need surgery to set the leg.\u00c2\u00a0 I make an immediate u-turn to drive back home.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arriving at the hospital, I&#8217;m thankful to learn that they don&#8217;t need to do surgery, and can set the leg during the casting process&#8230;we choose red and he&#8217;s wrapped from the bottom of his little\u00c2\u00a0leg\u00c2\u00a0(with a hole at the bottom), up to his hip, and then around his waist and up to his chest all around.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I stay until 9:30, then drive back home to be with the other kids &#8211; Randy and his dad, (who drove the other kids back home for us), will be staying with Dylan through the night.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll be in the cast for 4-5 weeks.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0I realize this isn&#8217;t life-shattering, very far from it.\u00c2\u00a0 But, life sure can change on a dime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, a quick run-down on the last few days.\u00c2\u00a0 On Thursday, we drove about 2 1\/2hrs to a Christmas get-together with Randy&#8217;s family&#8230;lots of fun, Dylan met tons of extended family members and did great.\u00c2\u00a0 We dropped 3 of the kids off at their cousin&#8217;s house to stay till we could pick them up today.\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yu-hai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}