Monday, August 24, 2009

WOW

Wow! Like all my other postings, I feel like I am playing catch-up with keeping this thing updated. One of these days I will learn to post pictures. Well, we made it to the reunion, and it was cut short by the news that Bert had been hurt in the Coal mine early Saturday Morning. Belinda, Luke, Monica and Laura headed directly off of the Mountain at about 6:00am after getting the news from Michael and Gary, Bert's Brothers, who had to come up and find our camp up on the Mountain. The news was only that Bert had been hurt in the mine and that his hip was broken and that they were going to have to operate on it as soon as possible. We were all hoping we would make it before he went into surgery......we did. As it turned out, the accident happened at about 12:30 am and he did not make it into surgery until 1:30 pm Saturday. The surgery took another 4 hours and was difficult because of Bert's strong bones and stubborn muscles. The doctor was satisfied with the outcome and expects 100% recovery. We are all super thankful that things turned out the way that they did. Then on Sunday, Luke and Mary got the call that Vittoria, Mary's niece was not well and that they needed to get up to Primary Children's Hospital as soon as possible, and though they tried, she passed away before they could make it. Our hearts and prayers go out to her family.

1 comment:

Luke and Mary said...

Thanks Bel! :D Our prayers are with Bert as well! Hope he's following doctors orders.