We had an amazing vacation in Utah. The drive home went pretty well for an 11 hour drive with 3 young children. We pulled into the driveway at 8:30 pm- we were exhausted. As we open the garage, both Brandt and I sit there for a few seconds confused. There is water POURING from the ceiling with part of the ceiling hanging down. Brandt comes to his senses first and jumps out of the car to turn off the main water valve. To make a long story short, an upstairs toilet cracked leaving water pouring into our house for who knows how long.
We get fans put all over the house to dry things out. We move in with my parents for a few days. When we came back to move some of the fans like the guy said to do, Brennen thinks it's funny to have the fans blow him. As the fans have hand guards, Brandt and I didn't worry and just kept moving fans. Until Brennen found one that didn't have a hand guard and decided to stick his whole arm down it. After another ER trip and two appointments with the hand surgeon later, Brennen's hand is going to be just fine- a fact that both the ER doctor and Hand surgeon said is pretty much a miracle. The fan sliced all five fingers, some down to the bone, but did not touch any major nerves, ligaments, nor cut any fingers off. We feel pretty blessed.
5 comments:
Oh my gosh! I heard about Brennen's hand, but didn't know about your house being flooded! Call me sometime, ok?
I LOVE, LOVE that kid!!
Oh no! I'm so sorry the hear about Brennen's hand!! Poor little guy!
The same thing happened to us (flooding) when we were out of town. Our neighbors called my parents to say that water was coming from our house. When my dad got there, there was water all over. All the dry wall down stairs had to be replaced as well as our cabinet, flooring, etc. We were out of our house for 6 mos while it was being repaired!
My goodness, that just looks painful. Glad to hear there are gonna be no problems. I am always nervous with fans since kids fingers are just so small and they are so curious..
Hope the flooding didn't ruin too much..
Oh my gosh! Amber what crazy happenings. And I can see you smiling through them. You are amazing. Poor Brennen. How is he doing now? My dad cut his hand on his table saw 3 times in the last 2 years. Gruesome but for some reason I like seeing them, probably to reassure me that they are still there. It is nasty, they reattached fingers and luckily they took and didn't reject. So sorry for you and your house and your baby. I hope all is well now.
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