NO MORE MONKEYS JUMPING ON THE BED

As you can see from the photo below Stevie has joined the broken bone club here at the Larsen home. Last night while jumping on the bed with Jonny he took a tumble. He fell from the bed INTO an aquarium that the two boys placed on the floor to look at...little did they know it would literally break his fall...more specifically his left collar bone. He landed head first with his shoulders on the frame of the aquarium...the aquarium sustained no injuries. Stevie is a trooper though...he hasn't left the couch all day, watching one video to another. He knows if he moves anything above his waist it will hurt..so he hasn't moved all day.

For those of you keeping count...Stevie is now the youngest in the family to have a broken bone. Jonny was the reigning youngest broken bone member with the break of his right leg on his 2nd birthday...Stevie won't be 2 for 2 weeks. The kids are all helping by waiting on him hand and foot and Dad has held him most of the day.

Speaking of Mike...he's still on unable to work. We've seen his two main doctors in the past few weeks and they have scheduled an appointment to have his Psych. exam in mid January. This test will last about 5 hours and is the key to releasing him to work and to drive. We were hoping to have had this exam earlier this month but the doctors wanted to wait until January. This testing is standard for all patients who have sustained a traumatic brain injury. It will test his memory skills, stamina as well as physically and mentally.

Mike has finally started back with the physical therapist to start stretching and strengthening his right arm. Since he wasn't able to do much of anything with 2 surgeries so close to each other he lost a lot of mobility and range of motion. He's glad to be back in therapy.