Uncle David's Hospital Stay

****NOTE--if you make it to the end, I PROMISE THAT THERE WILL BE SOME GREAT EMBARRASSING PICTURES!!!!****

***DISCLAIMER: David gave me full permission to post these pictures, what a good sport :)***

Uncle David has had a slew of things happen to him in his lifetime. As his sister, I know this all too well. One time when I was babysitting him (I guess I wasn't doing a good job), he was outside and was playing with a saw. He happened to saw his hand and came running into the house bleeding a ton! He was calm, cool, and collected and I was a basket case trying to reach our parents (this is before cell phones!).

Another time he had some knee pain and upon an Xray scan, they found a NAIL in his knee. I mean who does that happen to? What else...let's see...he has broken just about every bone, even being pushed once in elementary school into a chalk board, breaking his ribs.

On my 21st birthday (yes, David, I'm still talking about this--but at least I had family in town to spend it with!), he had a major surgery to remove a tumor in his brain. Quick side note, after the 16 hour surgery, he woke up and the first thing he said, in a very loopy tone of voice, was "Happy Birthday Niki". Brought tears to my eyes immediately!

Years later, when I was on maternity leave, he had major back surgery requiring him to be on leave from work for weeks and weeks.

Fast forward to a few weeks ago, he had shoulder surgery to repair an injury sustained playing old man baseball. THEN the following week, he was hospitalized for 4 days to monitor what they are calling "silent seizures". David is ok, but they were seeing if he would have an incident in the hospital so they would know how to treat it (dont' think that he had one though). SOOO...being his older sister, I get to post the pictures of him in his silly helmet! Of course I HAVE to take the opportunity to make in fun of him. Growing up, I sure did take full advantage of being the older sister. I called him 'retarded' all.of.the.time and of course, the first thing I said to my mom when I had these pictures was, "SEE...I WAS RIGHT!". Sigh, I crack myself up.

David pre-helmet (sorry, pictures are not great--taken on my cell phone with crappy hospital light). This is what he had to wear on his head for 4 days straight, no matter what he was doing!

Now..David WITH the helmet. He was quite a rebel and refused to wear this (except for pictures). The nurse said that if he got out of bed, he HAD to wear it. The reason was because they have patients that have severe seizures, and if he got up to go to the bathroom and had one, he could really hurt himself. Since David's are 'silent', he really isn't in any danger for this...so he refused. Finally he got the doctor to tell the nurses to get off of his case. Anyway, enjoy the photo!

Notice how he has a sling for his shoulder? That was because he was still recovering from surgery when he was in the hospital!

David, my little glassman brother--no matter how much we would hurt each other or say mean things (YOU'RE--YOU'RE---YOUUUU'RRREE UUUGGLLYY!), we always were there for each other. I am so glad that we are so close and that Roman and AJ are so close. I love you and hope that you get better soon!