a scary situation

If you've been following our facebook accouts at all, you may already know about little Lex!! Last Saturday he choked on a poptart and it took Doug 90 seconds (what seemed like hours) of whacking him on the back to get it up. I even called 911 about half way through when nothing was happening. It was truly the most terrifying situation I've ever been in. I am just SOOOOO glad he is alive.

A little while after the incident, however, we noticed that he was walking funny. His left foot was turned almost a full 90 degrees inward and he was dragging it and not laying all the way flat as he walked. I poked and pinched his foot, but it didn't seem like it was injured??? It was just really weird. Sunday, he was still walking this way. We started to worry that maybe, in whacking him on the back, Doug did something to his spine. And the more we thought about how weird it was -the more crazy possible diagnoses we came up with in our heads.

Anyway, to make a long story short, after two doctors and multiple xrays we finally figured out that he has five broken ribs!! Maybe it's weird, but Doug and I were actually VERY happy that broken ribs were all that was wrong. The doctor seems to think that the funny walking is his way of relieving some of the pressure from his back.

So he is all right!! He acts like a normal 2-year-old....running around the house, jumping, playing and bothering his sister!! Other than being a little fussier than normal, you wouldn't even know he was in pain. We are just glad that God spared his life!! And we are thankful this Christmas season for each passing day we have with our family......the greatest gift that we so often take for granted.