Big Reveal- Who Broke the Bone?!

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It's been a {half of a} week here. And have mercy, we have 2.5 to go! If you guessed that The Boy was the one who stood on the rubbermaid tub of toys and fell and broke his collarbone, you were right.

We took him to a local hospital accompanied by one of our Ukrainian nurses that works at the embassy health clinic. They wrapped him in a figure-eight bandage to hold his shoulders back and then we were instructed to keep his arms elevated at all times so his circulation wasn't cut off. This is my child who sleeps on his side, sucking his fingers, so the first night especially was a rough one for me as I was up multiple times checking on him and giving out more ibuprofen. I've been placing pillows up at his armpits which forces him to keep his arms above his head on the pillow or high enough to maintain circulation. The silver lining is that three weeks of this and perhaps he'll learn to fall asleep without sucking those fingers!

Our American nurse practitioner in charge of the embassy clinic wanted to see him yesterday, and then she sent everything over to the regional medical guy who concurred with the current treatment. He goes back to the hospital on Sunday to see how things are looking; they may leave him in this wrap if things look well or they have some other type of splint ordered that is his size and will hold the shoulders back to allow the bone to heal up.

I will take any prayers you have to offer. Mr. YH just flew out for his annual flight physical in Germany today and won't be back until the end of the week. That leaves me preparing an inductive Bible study for the small group we lead tomorrow on top of two other teaching commitments.

In other news, SHARE is in town and Big Girl took the ITBS (4th gr. fall norms) yesterday. We got the results this morning are pleased she did well which means mama is doing ok as teacher, too.

While she and the other home schooled kids took their tests at an apartment upstairs, the two little ones and I hung out with Amy all day. We had to call a taxi and leave by 7:30 a.m. so we could miss rush hour traffic which had the potential of being bad since Tymoschenko's verdict was to be handed down yesterday- there were riot police out even that early getting ready. Amy was kind enough to feed us 3 meals because we couldn't get a taxi even at 7:30 p.m.! The rest of the day we sat on the sofas under blankets while we watched the kids play with playdoh, draw and entertain themselves. While they napped, we discussed all sorts of important topics and in general, did nothing. It was fantastic!

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