Agi's accident...

This is just a quick note to let everyone know Agi took a nasty fall this morning (about 14 hours ago) in our basement stairwell, on the spiral cement steps. She has just now come out of a 3 hour surgery to repair her lower leg. her ankle was dislocated completely from its socket, and her tibia was broken in 3 places--none of them clean breaks. After surgery the doctor told me this was the worst lower leg break he'd ever worked with. The bone essentially shattered, and they had to clean out large pieces/splinters of bone fragment, use about 12 screws to bolt the remaining pieces of bone back together, and graft a 14 cm titanium rod in as well. the screws will come out in a year, the rod is there for life.

I'd made the decision to stay home for work today in order to take Ali to a doctor's appointment for her lingering flu. This turned out to be a good decision, as otherwise Agi would have been trapped on the stairwell with only a sick 9 year old for company. Knowing Agi though, she would have dragged herself up the staircase, made lunch for Ali, ironed the laundry, and then driven herself to the ER.

Agi's been a REAL trooper through this. I dare anyone to go through the process of having two doctors grasp your shattered leg and hold it firmly while a third shoves a dislocated ankle back into the socket. WIth no anesthetic, not even an advil. HOLY. FREAKING. COW. I married the female terminator. I can never, ever, ever, complain about anything painful. ever. again.

Frivolity aside, I ams asking all of you to keep Agi in your prayers for the next little while. We won't get the full details of the extent of her leg issues until tomorrow morning, as the doctor had to go back into another surgery, but Agi is now out and sleeping. She is expected to be kept in the hospital for 5 days. I'll be back in the morning and through most of the weekend.

She's resting as peacefully as one can in an underfunded commie hospital that has broken tile floors, mold on the ceiling, and a "bring-your-own-eating-utensils-towels-and-toilet-paper" policy, courtesy of Hungary's socialist government health-care-for-all system. Ironically, the same system that Hillary seems bent on giving to all of us in the US of A.

Cedars of SInai this hospital is not, but the doctors are awesome and experts in their field. THey just hate working with ratty equipment and derelict surroundings.

I'll keep everyone posted. Love you guys.

Aaron & the Terminatrix & family