Kiley's Accident

I am sitting here in the recovery room, Kiley is sleeping (kinda) and I guess this is as good a time as any to make a post about the accident.

On the 8th of this month Kiley, his dad Kim and his brother Chip had all gone up Beaver Mountain to log. At around 3:30pm-ish that day I got a call from Chip. He told me that Kiley had been in an accident and that he had broken his leg.

 Kiley had rolled the skidder and as it rolled his foot got smashed underneath the roof of this big piece of heavy equipment. And yes, that is Kiley laying there by the skidder. Kim and Chip were very good at not rushing things too much and making sure that they did all that they could to take care of Kiley. So this picture was taken while they were trying to decide the best way to get him off of the mountain. And throughout this whole thing Kiley has been very insistent that we get documentation and pictures of everything, so I'm sure that this picture was taken at the urging of Kiley as well :)

 Once Kim and Chip drove him off the mountain they took him to the hospital in Beaver where they were able to get his boot off. There they told him that it was too bad of an injury for them to take care of and he'd have to go to Cedar City to get it fixed. I have to say that out of all of the pictures we've taken this picture might be my favorite. Only because of the doctor's face :) Other than that I hate this picture because Kiley is in so much pain. (It also kinda' looks like his leg was completely cut off, but it wasn't. The bones just came through the skin.)

 This is Kiley once he was in the Cedar City hospital. He was in so much pain :(

 Having the girls come and visit him seemed to be the best part of his day. He loved seeing his girls!

 This was a day after they operated on his leg. They had to re-wrap it so I was able to get this pic. He had an incision by his knee where they inserted a steel rod into his tibia, an incision by his knee and by his ankle where they put screws into the bone and rod, and another big cut where the bones had poked through. All in all, his leg looked pretty yucky :( During the operation on Kiley's leg the Doc took x-rays of his foot to see what damage had been done there. They found out that his foot had been pretty badly crushed and that we would have to go see a specialist up north in 2 weeks for surgery. 

 Kiley got a bit stir-crazy so we made a trip to the store with the girls one day. After this Kiley almost never went out because it was too painful and we had to keep his leg elevated. Azuree was super excited though that Daddy was going to ride in the back with her and Emri :)

 I moved the mattress downstairs so that Kiley wouldn't have to use the stairs. It's kinda fun having him hang out with the girls and me all day :) I just wish he wasn't in so much pain...

 It's just like one big sleep-over everyday at our house! Here's Daddy and Azuree playing a video game together :)

 2 weeks after the accident we went up north to have the specialist look at Kileys foot. I got some pretty nasty and painful looking pictures of Kiley's foot while they unwrapped and re-wrapped it. It made me sick to my stomach to see this. This was such a painful injury and I hated that Kiley was constantly in so much pain.

 The blood blisters were a result of the swelling. Ouch, ouch....

 Definitely not a pretty picture...

When the specialist took a look at Kiley's foot he said that it was way too swollen for him to operate on and that we'd have to wait another week at least for the swelling to go down. That was some of the hardest news to take. We did not want to go home without having that operation taken care of. But there was nothing we could do about it so we went home and Kiley spent another very painful week in bed. We tried our very hardest to keep it elevated so that the swelling would go down. Apparently our efforts and all of the prayers and help from our family and friends payed off because when we saw the specialist a week later he said that Kiley's foot looked one hundred times better! I wanted to cry when he told us Kiley was good to go for surgery. This surgery meant that we could move forward with our lives and work on recovering.

 This is Kiley after his final surgery! Yay!

 Happy, happy day! Even though there is still a long road ahead of us, it is so nice to know that Kiley is moving forward and getting better. He is still in a lot of pain and probably will be for a while as he heals. But it's ok because it feels like the worst is behind us. 

Words cannot express the gratitude and love that we feel for everyone who has helped and supported us through all of this. The doctor's, nurses and everyone in the hospitals have been so wonderful and so helpful. We have felt the prayers and love from all of our friends and family members and we know that they have worked miracles. We would not have been able to make it through this trial alone.

We love you all so much!