Healing up

Ashley and Bode continue to recover from their injuries. Ashley saw the doctor two weeks after her surgery; he removed the bandages, and as you can see, it's quite a scary scar.

The skin has already almost flattened out, so it looks much better than it did. Ashley is going to the gym as often as she can, trying to work on her lost range of motion and muscle strength. I'm sure it will take time to get back to how she was, and I'm sure she is a little frustrated, but she is improving a little every day. On Friday, she bench-pressed the bar, which is rather amazing considering her arm was broken less than a month ago :-)

Bode had his four-week checkup with the doctor. Bottom line: his thumb is healing nicely--"some good bone-growth" is what the doctor said when he saw the x-ray. They took Bode's permanent cast of, and he was quite happy to have this done.

I took a movie of them sawing the cast off; thank heavens that didn't cut his arm :-)

He is not yet fully healed--can start swimming in two more weeks, which is fine; I think Bode was just happy to be able to shower again without wrapping his arm in plastic.

We had the annual Coast Aquatics swim banquet last week. It was nice to see everyone, but I'm sure it just made Bode more anxious to get back in the pool :-)

Nothing else too exciting is going on. It's final's week for me, so one more real week of work, and then it's summertime :-)

Bode Awards

Bode was fortunate to receive some awards this month. First, his high school swim coach nominated him for an FCA Champions of Character award. Bode (along with a couple hundred other athletes from schools around the region) were recognized at a nice ceremony a couple weeks ago. Bode sat with the other athletes, and I tried to take some zoomed in pictures, but they turned out all blurry.

They called the name of all the athletes. Here's Bode getting ready to be recognized.

There were some pictures after the event; I think Bode is somewhere in this mass of people, but I'm not sure where :-)

Bode was also recognized as a Indian scholar by the high school. I think this has something to do with his GPA; I guess he was recognized last year in a similar ceremony but the little sh*t didn't tell us about it. Fortunately, we were able to attend this ceremony. Sadly, I was a little late starting the video, so I didn't get the calling of his name.

A friend of ours was right up front, and she managed to get some good pictures of Bode shaking Mrs Heck's (the principal) hand

Bode even found us after the event and took a picture with his mother. He looks thrilled.

As always, we are very proud of our little guy :-)