The A's Pinky

If you don't like looking at broken fingers, read no more.

On Monday Annette visited the doctor and they took off the cast and gave her a small splint. During that time I thought it would be memorable to take a picture, complete with the pin still sticking out of the end of her finger.

After they pulled out a few stitches she looked down and got a little light headed. She asked me to distract her, so she could forget about her finger. I said something like, "Have I told you lately how much I love you?" She replied, "you need to do a lot better than that."

So I quickly thought, what is really distracting? What takes your mind off the here and now? Of course, a conversation with one of my brothers! The old flibbing of the flab (as I think Michael used to phrase it).

So I pulled out my cell phone and thought--Lee's at work and usually screens my calls; Matt's either working feverishly on some movie set or taking a nap; Mike's uncharacteristically serious when he's at work; and then Todd, yes Todd is the answer. It's Monday so he'll be home. I called Todd and put him on speaker phone and it worked better than vicodin.

As hoped he was highly entertaining and soon had Annette laughing. He hammered on Notre Dame football, the US Treasury, the skimpy number of little marshmellow bits in his morning bowl of Lucky Charms, etc. It was classic Todd. Thank you Todd.

For those who want to know, the pin stays in Annette's finger for another week. And the odd angle of her finger is to make sure it heals properly. It won't stay that way after the pin comes out.

Kathryn

Kathryn was kind enough to be my subject so I could test out some new favorite spots I found to take photos in Portland.

After hours of trying to post these pictures I finally got them up!

Here are some pictures of my dorm at BYUI!

This is my bed and it is probably the most dangerous bed ever. I hit my head almost every time I get up from my desk. It is almost impossible to climb up and down my bed without falling. I have not fallen of the bed yet but just wait it will happen.

Here is my dad trying to connect my computer to the internet... be was unsuccessful but it was a good effort:)

Yep! That's it for now.

Over and out from Rexburg!

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The girls get to school

So the last Big event of the Mellor summer is done. Joel and I dropped our baby off at BYUI. Surprisingly enough I did not cry - which (mom you may remember) is a far different story than when I dropped off Kristina. I don't think this reflects at all on the different personalities of my daughters but on the fact that I am really trying to learn to keep my emotions under control. I will admit to having very lonely feelings without my friend Alyssa but I am so excited for her and this new adventure! I am also glad that my other friends Kristina, Rachel and Jenna live near by :).
It was fun to meet up with Stuart and Hannah and share this adventure with them. When Joel and I left Rexburg on Tuesday afternoon we left both girls with blizzards and smiles after a final trip to Walmart! I was able to take some pictures of Alyssa and her new digs (sorry I did not get any of Hannah's room she said she would post those)








Joel and I were able to get to the beautiful Rexburg temple and we took the girls up for pictures before we left. The field they are in front of is across the street from the temple and is a field of plowed barley. I love barley but apparently in Idaho it is causing some controversy because all of that barley that has been planted (and there is a lot of it!) is being sold to Budwieser for the making of beer.
The temple is gorgeous as it presides over the school and the entire valley. It is very white and vertical and the interior is so bright and beautiful too!




Sorry I have not figured out how to turn my photos :(

The A and Sports Injuries

As some of you may have heard, Annette has once again sustained a sports injury. She broke her pinky bowling. Well, technically, she was not actually bowling, but picking up a bowling ball. She says it happened because she has such "big guns" and does not know her own strength. She was taking a ball off the rack at the back of the alley, behind the bowling lanes, and she somehow picked it up so fast that she hit the top of her pinky on the bar above the rack. So her pinky was smashed between the bowling ball and the metal bar. I suspect most bowling ball accidents happen because the bowling ball is heavy and gravity pulls it down onto fingers and toes and whatnot. In this case, the weight of the ball and gravity were actually slowing her down, trying to prevent her from whacking her pinky so hard against the metal bar at the top of the rack. But not even gravity could do much to restrain the force of her mighty muscles (yes, it's back to the "big guns" explanation), and so she broke her pinky right at the last joint. The doctor said it's called a DIP fracture, but the term has nothing to do with how she did it. (I'm not making that up; apparently DIP stands for digital interphalangial).

Because the fracture occurred at the joint, it doesn't heal very well without some extra help so on Tuesday she had to have surgery and get some pins put in. Here she is after the surgery.

Her biggest complaint is that the cast (which will be on for four weeks) interferes with the gang signs she likes to throw.

It was out-patient surgery, so she is home, resting reasonably well.