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Blooie said:
Steve is out and it went fine! They were able to leave the origjnal stem in the arm and just replace the socket part. Now recovery begins. Lori is taking the first week off work, and their kids will check in when they can. We told Lori that if she finds herself short of help, we’re a phone call away. Thanks for the prayers!

I guess “paranoid” was the wrong word, Bruce, but I couldn’t think of a different one. “Careful” wasnt strong enough, “panicked“ was too strong! ;)

Man, that multi-car pileup was way worse than we first heard. 4 people confirmed dead, dozens injured, and 140 vehicles involved. The first accident was 100 vehicles, followed just down the highway by another 40. So that’s 140 vehicles, mostly big rigs. One news broadcast I watched said that some on the smaller passenger vehicles have been very difficult to find among the wreckage, they are smashed and sandwiched so badly, so who knows what the final count will be. Cattle haulers were smashed so cattle - injured and uninjured - were wandering on the highway too. Ken and I try to avoid I-80 anytime of the year, preferring to take our chances with the side highways. Those trucks just don’t give a hoot about speed limits, passing, tailgating....it’s terrible. They’ll be in both lanes as they start up an incline because one tried passing the other, both end up slowing way down (still side by side), and you’re stuck behind them. In the meantime, the trucks are stacking up behind and beside you, and then the incline turns into a downgrade. I hate it!!! Sure praying hard for the families impacted!
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What a horrible accident, I feel badly for the families that lost loved ones.
 
I’m home. Cut goes from the last knuckle (the end one) down to under the nail, just over an inch long, but wasn’t as deep as it initially looked. Got it cleaned up, no Tetanus shot because the antibodies created could possibly knock Thursday's GFR off, and I was only a month past 10 years since my last one anyway. We had to wait forever with a compression bandage on it before the bleeding finally stopped, but he was able to glue it instead of stitch it. Stoopid blood thinners are mostly responsible for that.

The good news is I get out of doing dishes for a few days! The bad news is that dinner was kinda hosed for tonight.
 
Blooie said:
I’m home. Cut goes from the last knuckle (the end one) down to under the nail, just over an inch long, but wasn’t as deep as it initially looked. Got it cleaned up, no Tetanus shot because the antibodies created could possibly knock Thursday's GFR off, and I was only a month past 10 years since my last one anyway. We had to wait forever with a compression bandage on it before the bleeding finally stopped, but he was able to glue it instead of stitch it. Stoopid blood thinners are mostly responsible for that.

The good news is I get out of doing dishes for a few days! The bad news is that dinner was kinda hosed for tonight.
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That's gotta hurt! The rest of the crew can take care of the dishes and fixing dinner for a while.
 
Glad your finger isn't as bad as you'd thought @Blooie and that Steve came through his surgery ok. Hopefully you'll both recover quickly. :hugs

It is so humid here. It's cloudy but it doesn't look like it's going to dump any rain on us. We had enough to briefly wet the ground this morning.

We have 18 very busy little pooping monsters now. I'm hoping the remaining eggs don't take too long to hatch, but with the first lot being very early it could be the end of the week before the last lot I added decide to join us. Technically today was 'hatch day'.
 

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