"When It Rains It POURS!"

So, this Sunday we received a call that Shad's Mom had been in a motorcycle accident and is now in the hospital. This of course has to happen just after we are starting to recover from Mark dying. We loaded up Monday morning and headed to Boise to go see his Mom. She has a broken (with multiple fractures) shoulder, hip, foot and ribs. She was wearing a helmet so she doesn't have any real trauma to her head. They did surgery on her hip and shoulder. Down the road when she starts healing more they are going to operate on her shoulder blade. Right now she is okay, but she has a VERY LONG road of recovery ahead. She will be in a wheelchair for awhile after she is ready to go home. She is in a large amount of pain. The nurse described it as if someone had fallen down a large flight of stairs and times the soreness and pain by ten. No one else was really hurt. She took the brunt of it all. We are just grateful that she is alive and that she will have the opportunity to heal and be able to walk and do many of the things she was able to do before. Shad says that he doesn't really like the month of September so much. I don't think I can blame him. It has been a really tough couple of weeks to say the least...especially for Shad. We will keep you posted on her condition as it progresses and hopefully post happier news.