All Good!

Mum took Mana back to see Xray specialist last night, who informed her that Mana could now have his cast off as there is no fracture, in fact there never has been. Apparently with a baby they cannot confirm a fracture until 10 days after the event, as it could be misread as something else.

Anyway bottom line is the cast is gone. Pretty annoying, but man absolutely no complaints, as our boy is miraculously fine, given how bad it could have been. Praise God!!!

Mana Xray Results and New Photos

We had Mana's leg re-xrayed Friday night. Unfortunately it looks as though the fracture hasn't changed too much, so the cast went back on again for at least another 10 days. He seems to be doing real well with it all though, but we're hoping it's off sooner rather than later.

Here are some new photos of the kids... and an absolute shocker of their dad. Yeah you're right, I feel as tired as I look :). But it's all worth it.

Boy Doing Well

So far Mr Mana is doing very well with the whole cast situation. Hasn't really seemed to bother him much at all, especially considering the current one he has on is his third. The last one fell off his leg early hours of Sunday morning. We weren't overly surprised given the nurses were trying hard not to make it too tight for him, and i take my hat off to them for even being able to get a cast on a 7 week old wriggly baby anyway.

Cast comes off tomorrow for a re-xray, so we're hoping the results are good and that will be that. Was looking at it the other day and thought it'll actually be great momento for him, to have an actual cast of his leg at 7 weeks old. Obviously prefer not to have had to go through the episode by which it came about, but sill worth looking on the bright side.

In Cast

Turns out Mana has a slight fracture in his leg and requires a cast. Mum was pretty upset when the results came through, but considering how bad the outcome of the incident could have been, we've come off incredibly lightly Praise God!

The doctor's have pretty much given him the 'all clear' in terms of head injury and internal injuries so that's all good! He keeps the cast on for 8 days, they then remove it and re-xray, if all good he keeps the cast off, if not it's back on for another 8 days. He can't be too uncomfortable with it though, he slept through the night for the 1st time last night.

We're now thinking that Humpty Dumpty was pushed and ironically that is possibly how the injuries are so light. Ari may have helped him to the floor, in a sense, and helped to break his fall. Anyway more diligence required.

Concern

Yesterday Mana fell off our changing table on to our wooden floor. Mum had put him on the changing table to have a bit of a kick while she made Ari lunch, a few seconds later she heard Ari and Mana screaming and walked back into the lounge to find Mana on the floor on his tummy. We're not completely sure what happened, whether or not he managed to roll off, which we would presume was highly unlikely given he's only 6 weeks, or maybe Ari accidently pulled him off trying to kiss him or something.

At this stage he's doing miraculously well. Mum rushed him off to the A&E, the doctor thoroughly checked him out and he 'seems' ok, apart from a little graze on his head and a possible slight fracture on his right leg, which they will confirm today, he seems to be ok. However obviously he's not out of the woods yet, given there is always a possibility of internal bleeding etc. So far so good. We'll keep you posted.

2006 Here We Come

Well 2006! Don't know about you but man, what the hell happened to 2005? It fair flew by! But I was thinking about it the other day and realized that 2005 had been a very full year. The year kicked off with us doing a crazy 3 week stint around the world, which took in Japan (thanks Pat), Germany, Israel (where Ari ended up in Hospital for 3 days) and Los Angeles (thanks Bultsma's).

Then i made a career change on our arrival back home and Ari started Daycare for the 1st time (not sure whether that was harder on his parents or on him, almost pulled him a few times on those initial days). We were heavily involved in our church and pulled out of everything which meant a huge change in lifestyle and of course the arrival of our beautiful little Mana. I thought i would chuck on a few photos of the year to remember it by.

What was your 2005 like?