broken bones

My poor Brandon broke his clavicle. We had had a pretty good day of skiing when we suddenly lost my dad. We went back over with our friends Andy and Savannah to look for him to no avail so kept skiing. We went down a run and when we got towards the bottom there was a little jump where a trail merges. Andy said hey Savannah go off the jump, she laughed said no and Andy proceeded to jump. Savannah went, I went and between the three of us we averaged 1/2-1 inch of air if you stretch it a little. Then Brandon went, flew of it, somehow fell right on his clavicle heard it snap and slid a few feet down the hill all to the guffaws of 3 people above him. then we skied towards him and he said... i think somethings wrong, it just doesn't feel right. He pulled back his shirt a little and we immediately realized something was quite wrong although we didn't want to admit it. we popped his ski on quickly and skied down to the clinic where instantly they said it was broken. My dear mom took and x-ray and sure enough it was broken in 3 places (we found out later actually 4). Luckily there just happened to be the orthopedic surgeon who reads x-rays for the clinic out skiing and he came in right as we did. He was able to diagnose right there and determine it needed surgery and even got us an appointment for Tuesday (this was saturday). We were so blessed to be able to have him right there and to get in to surgery right away because even though the surgery is hurting Brandon i know it will be much better than having the bones move around for who knows how long before we could have gotten the surgery in Logan. Yesterday we woke up at 5 Am and drove all the way to SLC to get surgery and didn't leave until 2:30 EEP! I was so happy to have my mom come in the morning and stay and Sarah came for the 2nd half. It was nice to have them even though i thought I'd be fine just reading. Brandon is in a lot of pain still but he's doing better now. We are so counting our blessings that it wasn't something worse, we have insurance, we have good savings, we were able to get it taken care of right away and that we are in good health so that everything will heal better. I'm very grateful to our families who have been so helpful and supportive and that everything is working out very well. I suppose we won't be getting that new car (well used but new) we need for a little while but oh well i guess. I'll keep you updated if anything new or exciting happens. Till then, thanking the Lord for the many many blessings we enjoy. :)