Window of Opportunity

Last weekend I was concerned about leaving Noel alone to visit mother in Caldwell. Noel did great, ironically it was Nanette and I who got sick. I left for Caldwell feeling sore feverish, and swollen glands, runny nose type stuff and lost my voice. Nanette drove the entire way so I could read and rest. Then Nanettes tooth acted up and the left side of her face, swelled and she was in tremendous amount of pain by Sun pm and Monday morning. I told her, 'What is it about we Nielsons that we always run into emergencies on the holiday weekend. TRADITION. In case you didn't read her blog, She had her tooth pulled Tuesday

Anyway I drove Noel to his wound clinic appointment last Wed.. The nurse cut his cast off and the doc put him back in the double foam pad. "Stay off your foot" So Noel's back in a wheelchair and I'm doing once a day wound care. The doctor said his wound is getting smaller which I could even tell.

Coming from a house hold of girls, I've never seen a cast removed. No one broke a bone in our family other than Jocile who fell out of the car and broke her leg when she was 3-4. Most of us hadn't been born when her accident occurred. So I thought the casting process fascinating. I took my camera prepared to shoot how the foot was cast. NOT.

How to get a cast off
1. First a rotary saw. Yikes how close does one push in sawing.






sawing in the toe area


















Is this a look of worry and concern?



2. a tool to spread the cast apart. It reminded me of a farrier, tool used in horse shoeing






The doc will be out of town next wed taking his son to MTC so that's why he didn't recast the foot. It would have been two weeks in the cast without having a look at the wound. Getting back to my main point. I feel like we were blessed to have a window of opportunity to travel to Caldwell.