Sorry I had to go the Children's Doctors and Hospital

is what our oldest son said after having surgery on his elbow. It was dislocated and fractured on Wednesday for no real fault of his own. Many of you have probably heard the story so I won't repeat here. It happened at about 8 in the morning on Wednesday. We went to our little clinic where they x-rayed it, which was not fun. They then sent us up to Castleview Hospital in Price. It was thought that they might be able to set it, but no. We sat there for 2 1/2 hours with nothing. So we told them to let us go and we would be headed up to Primary Children's hospital in Salt Lake, 2 hours away. This is our 4-year old on the way up.
After we got to Primary Children's, we had to get better x-rays and wait for a few more hours while a surgeon was able to do the surgery. We are glad though that we went up there. Luckily, when they got doing the surgery that it was better than it first looked and not as complicated. The nurses and doctor's there were so nice and helpful. So our oldest is now in a soft cast and will get a hard cast next week. He wants blue and can't wait for it and for people to start signing it.

Since we were up there, we decided to go to the Hogle Zoo. It was fun.

Afterward we went home and he slept all the way. It's good to be home after a long day.

Thanks to all that came to see him and help us out, especially Grandma and Grandpa J. who watched out youngest while we were gone.

LASIK!!

I was finally able to get LASIK done on my eyes!!. We had put money into our flex spending to do my wife's teeth, but they decided to do that surgery later and so we had to use the money. We decided to do LASIK for me!! The whole procedure is relatively quick and painless and it is amazing what it can do.

This video is the intralase part. That means where the use a laser to put thousands of little bubbles a certain depth into your eye and then makes a cut around the edge. It is all bladeless and is very crazy. I put the video in triple time so it would go a little faster

After they did this to both eyes, I went and sat in a massaging chair for about 10 - 15 minutes in order for the bubbles to dissipate. After that then it was time for the actual surgery. I had the Lasik with Wavelight procedure done on me. Once again I put the video in triple time and if you are a little squeamish with your eyes, you might not want to watch.

So with my pre-op and scans to the actually surgery, it only took about 5 hours and that was because they were running a little behind. So after all that, I have to put drops in my eyes for quite a while and wear funky goggles at night for a few nights, but worth it indeed. I had an exam this morning and I had 20/20 vision. They expect to even improve a little more with healing. It's also nice that with this type of procedure, they guarantee it so if my vision does fall below a certain level, they will touch it up for free. Very nice.

To have this surgery, I went to Hoopes Vision in Salt Lake. They were very good and amazing. Everyone was very friendly and nice and explained everything before and as I was going through it. I would suggest it to anyone that is a good candidate for it.