Phone call from my vampire husband

No, he's not Edward, but he's my sweety. Giampiero called last night. He is in the unit called the "vampires" right now. They are the people coming back from recovery, or waiting to be sent home. Luckily most of the guys he's with right now are pretty good peeps. They are not the deviants that are getting kicked out. If they are going home, it's for medical reasons. He's on "profile" which means he can't REALLY train because of medical restrictions. The drill sergeant said he needed to get the doctors to "fix" his profile so he can start training or he will have to wait until the next group. That would mean he would graduate in September instead of August. Well, luckily he's not going to risk his health. We'll see if the threat is real after he is done being on profile.

He's doing well otherwise. Doing light exercises, studying, and keeping busy. We are able to send and receive an e-mail once a week from a member of the church in his ward. Otherwise he said to send snail mail to his old address:

PVT. Scattolon, Giampiero M.

4th PLT

Bco 2-81 AR

3576 Wilson Road

Fort Knox, KY 40121-5728

or send an e-mail to me and I will mail it to him. (noelle@scattolon.com)

Thank you for all your prayers and support. I feel very fortunate and blessed.

My poor baby...

Sara fell down the stairs last night. We are so glad that nothing major happened. She fell from almost the top, so you can imagine the danger that poses. Luckily, all she got was a broken arm. She did really well. Everybody stayed really calm around her, so she was able to stay pretty calm for being in so much pain. Sorry if you are squeamish, but here are the photos.

We were able to see immediately that the arm was broken, so we rushed to the hospital, which is only 10 minutes drive.

My Dad happened to be in the hospital having just given a blessing to a man in our ward, so he and the other brother who was with him for the blessing, headed to Emergency and gave Sara a blessing before she went in.

She was admitted quickly. The wonderful staff of the ER made her very comfortable. She had an ice pack for her arm, TV, a packet of goodies (including play dough, lip gloss, stickers, books, and more) for her to keep. The only time she cried after we got to the hospital was when they put in the IV. The nurse was so good to her. He sang songs with us to help distract her. It was a long wait because we needed to wait for the X-rays, have the MD look at it and call in the Orthopedic Surgeon. She waited patiently and finally fell asleep about 20 minutes before wheeling her out to the bigger room for setting the bone.

She cried again a little when she found out that I wasn't going to be in the room while she they were fixing her bone, but once again Mr. Super Nurse (RN Nate) helped keep her calm by singing songs to her until she fell asleep. They sedated her so she could sleep while they set the bone. They used radiology to see the bone as they are setting it so they don't have to do surgery or "guess" if it is set right. Of course I wasn't allowed in there while setting the bone, but it took less than 15 minutes. All the medical staff was wonderful.

Catching up...

I have been a little behind on my blogging. I have enjoyed almost 4 weeks with Giampiero being home for his recovery so here are some of the pictures from that time. He should be graduating August 29th. We'll see if li'l America waits for her daddy.