UMC - Home away from home

9-11 will always be remembered now for more than one reason........

Unfortunately for Brett's dad UMC became our home away from home for about 4 weeks, followed by about 3 weeks of rehab.

The evening of 9-11 Doug was headed down to Tucson to stay the night with us because he had a Dr. appointment the next day. We knew he had gotten off to a late start but it soon became later than we had expected & we knew something was not right. Brett was already out in hopes of finding his dad or finding a cop to find out if any accidents had been reported. Shortly after, he received confirmation that Doug had been taken to UMC. Because Brett was already about 15 min. out he went ahead to the hospital and I called for a taxi so I could meet him there. That was an experience all in its self! I'll just say I was never more relieved to have that taxi come to stop and to find myself still in one piece! Really nice old guy but I can definitely say I've experienced the scary taxi driver driving!

Anyway - long story short, Doug had gotten into a really hard rain right outside of Tucson, hydroplaned and rolled. An amazing young man stopped to help him and in the meantime another vehicle spun out of control and hit the truck which knocked them both. Luckily neither sustained worse injuries than they did. Doug broke quite a few ribs, his sternum and both sustained internal injuries.

Tubes, tubes and more tubes.

Daughter and wife are the accomplices on this - poor guy couldn't even defend himself.

It did bring a smile to his face when he came to - he didn't expect anything less.

Hanging out in the cafeteria

The staff in the ICU were amazing and so patient with us! We were grateful for family that were able to come down on the weekends and are so grateful that Doug is recovering and is still a part of our lives! We love our family so much!

Blessings in Disguise..........

Quick Update......no falling asleep :)

We moved to Tucson the end of August, 2008 just in time for Brett to jump into a new semester of school and for me to start a new job with the UofA.
We had been living in Safford for just over a year where Brett was working construction and I was doing bookkeeping for a local auto repair shop. We had recently moved into our cute new little house and thought we were in Safford to stay............

After about six months of framing, although Brett loved the work, he decided he probably didn't want to be swinging a hammer the rest of his life. Blessing in disguise...........at the time I was not thrilled about the idea of picking up and moving, after all, I was finally living the good 'ol American dream right?! but looking back only a few short months later I am ever so grateful we made the move when we did. Our lives have been greatly blessed. Yes we have our cute little house that we have no clue at this point what we are going to do with but, we are definitely in a better place at the right time. We miss friends and family in Safford but are excited about our new adventure.

So we're a lil' slow..........

So I'm a little slow at getting this going but I've had good intentions if that counts for anything :) I will try and do my best at keeping ya'll updated but I'm not going to make any promises :)