Fun in CO . . .

. . . despite the broken foot. here's the gorgeous sun setting over the mountains. although it prevented us from going climbing (realistically, the colorado hikes are heinous and undoable in crutches), danielle and i were able to do lots of things together that we haven't ever done before. such as riding the motorized carts at target. if you have to be a gimpy invalid, you might as well have a little fun, eh?

the foot didn't look altogether too bad once the swelling went down and it stopped looking greenish. i am a bad patient, as it turns out. i took the splint off approximately 5 times a day in order to ice it, to bathe and to see how it was looking. i was wondering why at HCMC we use plaster and weberil instead of these fancy automatic splint forming thingies. my conclusion was it is probably so that patients can't take it off so easily.

i also took my splint off in order to crutch into the water and help danielle teach peanut how to swim. she can swim, but she's still in the stage where she won't unless she's absolutely forced. rocco refused to swim volitionally until i went sailing and left him on the shore. he howled for 5 minutes and suddenly, he was swimming across the lake to catch joel and i in the boat. crazy pooch.