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Recovery

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***Warning some graphic photos*** Today marks the second day out of surgery and all is as well to be expected. It took him until last night to get over the anesthesia x2, yes we think he may have woke in the middle of the hour and half surgery. It took 4 hrs in recovery for him to be awake enough to move him to the car in which he slept all the way to the house. He is coherent today and in good spirits. Today is also the day to get cleaned up a bit so that helps too! Thanks everyone for your wonderful prayers and thoughts during this ordeal. We did have some touchy times, such as his blood pressure was through the roof (164/124), waking during surgery and his oxygen levels dropping below the allowance numerous times. We are now on the upside and looking forward to recovery. They fixed every ligament except the LCL which was better than first thought. Doc grafted a new ACL as there was nothing left to repair, he took this graft from his shin. His meniscus was damaged badly and D...

Last Minute Doin's

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Yesterday we headed off to his folks to stay the night so we could head out early this morning with our BIG load. We were able to get our container home with us on the farm today.  We worked on the sawmill today. Fine tuning how it works. Then we went to cutting up the remainder of the logs we had left in the pile. We did quite a bit cut up. I just have to sweep the floors and we are ready for our early morning trip to the hospital for Mtn Man's surgery. Hopefully be home about lunch time....... Copyright © 2014 M.E. Masterson All Photographs Copyright © 2014 M.E. Masterson