He's Awake!!

John is finally feeling a little better.
He is no longer sleeping all day. :)
The pain is still there, but not as great.
He is trying to get caught up on all of the papers that his students have been doing while he was away.

There were high hopes of returning to work tomorrow, but unfortunately, that will have to wait just a little while longer. His foot has some swelling because we have not been elevating it as much.
I have to keep a close eye on him because he tries to "get away" with things while I am not looking.
The other day, I busted him in the kitchen with no crutches!
When I asked him how he got there, he said,
"I hopped!"
Arg!
Oh well.
He is getting frustrated because he just wants to get back into normalcy again.
I keep reminding him that this is very temporary.

Do you see the blue tube coming out of his ankle??
That is our cool IceMan machine.
It is basically a cooler that I keep filling up with ice and water that is attached to a tube which runs really cold water through a pad on his leg.
Modern technology.
At least we don't have to use bags of frozen peas. :)

Flowers for Daddy

Caroline and Luke had fun painting pots and planting flowers for Daddy today.

A happy Daddy.

John is doing well.
He still sleeps a lot because of the pain medicine.
He is in quite a lot of pain every time he gets up, so he still spends the entire day and night with his "toes above his nose" and on ice.
We are excited for Wednesday to come because we are going back to the doctor to see how everything is progressing.

Update on John

John's surgery went well today. The doctor said that everything went as expected.
Now, I just have to make sure that he stays put and keeps his "toes above his nose" for a while.
He slept most of the day as the anesthesia was wearing off. Before the surgery they put a block (like an epidural) in his leg, so his leg is still totally numb.
He cannot feel it at all.
I'm keeping up with his pain medicine for when the feeling starts coming back.

While John slept the day away, Grandma Koz planted some flowers outside with Luke and Caroline.

The weather was so nice and the kids had so much fun.

They can't wait for daddy to be able to go out and see their flowers.

Poor John

This morning, John went to play basketball with some friends at Wheaton Academy and he ruptured his Achilles tendon.
Please pray that he will not be in so much pain.
He will go into surgery next Friday and then he will have to stay home for two whole weeks. (that will be hard for John. . . he does not like to miss school!)
The doctor who fixed Caroline's broken arm will be performing the surgery, so we feel confident that he will do a good job.

In this picture, John is telling his mom all about it.
He's being a real trooper and not complaining, but I know he's hurting.
The kids are so sweet with how they want to help him.
They have already planned that we are going to take his "Friday Doughnut" order and go get it for him.

This is what happened . . .he said he thought something fell off of the gym ceiling and landed on his ankle. Ouch!!