Franken-Pinkie

About 2 weeks ago Curtis was having way too much fun at work. He was in the middle of a rousing game of football during recess with some 8th grade boys when he hurt his pinkie trying to catch a ball. It turns out he broke said pinkie.

Seriously, what kind of adult breaks his finger during recess?

It was kind of funny at first. But then it turned into a real pain-in-the-you-know-what. He had a pretty bad fracture. The bone had broken and then twisted. Ouch!

These pictures were taken on Saturday, 10 days after the "incident".

One day last week Curtis said, "My finger feels like it's just hanging there," to which I replied, "That's because it is just hanging there!"

After a week and a half waiting for the worker's comp paperwork to go through her finally had surgery this week.

He did great. He has two pins in his finger, hence the "Franken-Pinkie" moniker.

Today he back to work (finally!!!!). He has been driving me crazy! (He missed 1 day the first week, then last week he developed a sinus infection so he was home for three days and now this week he has been home two days.) But the poor thing has conference in Tucson Thursday and Friday, so he's leaving tonight.

I'll kind of miss the old fella. I've gotten used to having him around.