July has been a month of fun for us. Jack rigged is schedule so that it would be really easy during the month of July, and we are taking full advantage of his "time off."
I love Lake Powell and have so many great memories here. I love the heat and the warm water and the orange rocks and sleeping on top of the boat under the stars. I was so excited that we got to go this year:
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| Helping drive the houseboat. |
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| Giving loves to Max. Max has a brain tumor and won't be around much longer. The kids will sure miss him! |
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| There are lots of ways to get into trouble at Lake Powell. We couldn't take our eyes off this little guy for a second! |
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| Having fun on the stand-up paddle boards! |
Unfortunately our trip was cut very short when one morning Jack was skiing and took a bad fall. His body was pretty much folded sideways in half when he hit a large waves. When we pulled the boat over to him it was clear that he was in pain and having trouble breathing. It took a long time to pull him out of the water and onto the boat. Once we got him on the back seat of the boat he was unable to move. We finally decided that since he was in so much agony and was struggling to breathe that we should take him into the clinic in Page, AZ. The poor guy had to endure a two hour boat ride on the rough main channel of Lake Powell to get to the dock. The big concern was that he would have a pneumothorax, but luckily he did not. They diagnosed him with broken ribs and he also crunched all of the soft tissue and nerves on his left side. Even after a shot of morphine, two loritab, ibuprofen and a percocet he was still in a lot of pain. We drove home that night. He is recovering well though and hopefully will be more fully recovered before he goes back to school next week!
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