Devon seems to like to avoid Kirk family vacations. He will go to great lengths to miss them. He would even break his collar bone to miss one.
Well, truthfully (I hope) he does actually want to come, but for some reason he always has something come up like a scout jamboree, or work, or needing a surgery. This last weekend, Devon, Steve, and David were doing a 100 mile bike race (Hotter Than Heck Century) and Devon his a bump, lost control, and crashed, which resulted in a broken collar bone. Of course, this was also the weekend before the Kirk Family Vacation. Steve was awesome and took good care of Devon. He stuck around at our house for a little while after getting home to make sure Devon was okay with his concussion. He also realized he could take Devon with him to the REAL game that night and get him checked out by one of the other doctors that was a surgeon (Dr. Edwards - Lavell Edwards son... I think that's pretty cool). So Devon met with Dr. Edwards in the REAL team locker room and Dr. Edwards said he could do surgery on Monday. This was awesome in the sense of getting his shoulder taken care of soon, rather than meeting with a doctor on Monday, and then scheduling a surgery, but it stunk because it was part of the Kirk family vacation. The Kirk vacation was a staycation that included sleeping in tents in Steve's backyard for two nights.
So, on Monday we joined the family to go to the Planetarium, only to find out that practically the whole Planetarium was under construction. What a bummer! This coin donation thing was just about the only highlight. We hung out with them for a little bit, and then headed to the hospital for Devon's surgery. Ben and Sierra were awesome and suddenly had 6 kids to take care of. After the Planetarium they all went bowling, and then to a soccer game that Steve needed to be at. It looks like they had more fun than Devon and I. We waited around for a long time. They said they were a little behind schedule. I think they were way behind schedule. His surgery that was supposed to start at like 3 didn't start until about 7. While we waited we watched a little of the Olympics. We also were so lucky they had a crossword puzzle book to give us something to do in the 3rd waiting room they put us in before the surgery. Loads of fun, I'm telling you.
While Devon was in surgery I found some lunch, watched some Olympics, and read my book some. When Dr. Edwards finally came out and talked to me he said it went well, but that it was pretty messy in there. He had to put 8 screws in to hold it all together, and he gave me this picture. I waiting a long time for them to call me back to see Devon. He was coming out of the anesthesia pretty slowly. This was familiar for me. The only other time Devon has had surgery, it was for his appendix. They almost kept us all night because he was so sleepy, but finally sent us home around 10 or so. Again, this time the original plan was to go home that night. We thought we would be home around 8 or 9. But because of the late surgery and Devon's slow waking up,and the fact he wasn't keeping his oxygen levels up, we got the bonus of sticking around for the night. I'm glad they could take care of him, but it was a bummer. Good thing I'm used to sleeping in a hospital after our stays with Jayden. I totally didn't bring anything with me, but that's ok. They released Devon the next morning. His shoulder was already feeling so much better! He could actually put his shirt on alone, which was a huge improvement.
Huge shout out to Ben and Sierra that continued taking care of our kids for almost 24 hours when they weren't really expecting it. Sierra even slept in the tent with the girls, pregnant and all. Ben slept in the house with the boys.
Once we were released, we stopped by Steve's house to get some of our stuff. Then I drove Devon to our house to drop him off. He just wanted to rest at home, instead of at Steve's. I drove back to Steve's where everyone was cleaning up tents, and waiting for the men to get back from golfing so we could go swimming after a BBQ.
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