Posted on Wednesday, 25th May 2011 by chrisjones
Three months ago, my little son Gabriel broke his leg, an event exhaustively chronicled in these pages here, here, here, here, etc. Now that we’ve come out of the day-to-day difficulties relating to that injury, I thought I’d recap some of the lessons and give an update on what has happened in the aftermath. First, [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 7th April 2011 by chrisjones
Gabriel actually took five steps this morning. He didn’t like it. But he wasn’t crying about it. I held his hand and we walked to Mommy, and then he collapsed. People, that right there made this one of the best days EVER. I’m constantly amazed by the wonder of the little things through this process. [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 6th April 2011 by chrisjones
Well, the Gabriel part is over, anyway, and though many of the challenges persist and will persist – I’m not done talking about this stuff – the major difficulty is surmounted, the cast is off, and Gabriel is whole again. He’s still not walking. We’ll have more updates, so you can breathe out again. But [...]
Tags: Gabriel, God
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Posted on Monday, 4th April 2011 by chrisjones
So the cast is off, and it was ugly. You could clearly see where we could reach inside the cast and apply creams, etc., but there was a huge area we just couldn’t get to. Unfortunately, the pee could. It was horrific. There’s no help for it, but aside from the very first week of [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 2nd April 2011 by chrisjones
The bills are in (except for one, which isn’t done until we get the cast off). The total is something north of $13,000. They come from seven different providers, ranging in amounts from $79 to $5200. We paid two of them off (one was the $79, as you might imagine), and got sizeable discounts in [...]
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