Dear Combative's You Suck :(

I think I spoke to soon on the whole combatives deal. I woke up earlier in the night and noticed the hubbs wasn't there. I figured he was in the bathroom and fell back asleep. Later in the morning I woke up right about 3am to the hubby coming back to bed. Something seemed weird as he was dressed like he had been out of the house. I asked him were he had been and he replied with "the hospital." "What why, why didn't you wake me up."  He said "I knew you had to go back to work in the morning and I wanted you to be able to sleep". (I'd been off work for the past 5 days)  Well thanks hubbs but seriously next time its ok to wake me up. Last night he was complaining of his arm hurting him quite a bit and kept rubbing it through the evening. He said it was hurting him so bad that he couldn't sleep and though something was wrong with it so he went in. 

They took x-rays and drugged him up on some meds to help with the pain, wrapped his arm tightly so it couldn't be moved and sent him home. Gosh I'm glad they took all precautions to make sure nothing was broken before sending him home. They told him they would check out the x-rays when they came back from the lab and call him later in the day. Comforting I know right. He assured me that everything was going to be alright and there was nothing to worry about. Really I don't believe that "HELLO, apparently something is wrong if you went to the hospital." They told him there could be some tiny bones that may be broken or it could be just a bad sprain. We are hoping for a sprain of course. Starting day 3 today of 5 on combatives I would hate for him to have come this far and not be able to complete the course and he would simply be crushed. His plan is to go in and do what he can and make the most of it. I'm just hoping that its nothing serious and he can push through like the champ he is. But on the flip side of it, I don't want him to hurt himself any worse. 

UPDATE 1 - He went in to class and ended up taking the ace bandage off after talking with the instructor and continued training. I was glad, the pain must have subsided enough were he could fight.

UPDATE 2 - He completed the final fight on Wednesday, he is now Combatives Level 2 certified.  

UPDATE 3 - He had a follow up on Thursday with the doctor. At this point his arm wasn't hurtting at all. Nothing came back on the x-rays so we are left assuming it was just a bad sprain. Better than it could have been, but still doesn't set well with me that he is already itching to get level 3 certified.  

~DAY 298~

First Impressions

DAY 25

They say First Impressions are everything

Well let me just tell you Gabe made a great one today at his first official day back to work with his new unit. It was his first time doing PT with them and it didn't last long at all. I got a text message this morning around 7:45am "I'm at the Hospital, I'll be home soon but I'm fine & I love you". Really that's all I get I though, so I texted back asking what happen and he responded with "doing Log PT and getting two stitches doc. is here call you when I'm done" Ok I though that in the world could have happened that would case him to have to get stitches. I was on my way to a interview shortly after so I wasn't able to talk to him again till later in the afternoon when I was on my way to work and he was headed home. That's when he told me they ended up putting not two but four stitches in his chin. I guess when the doc. looked closer he decided the cut was bigger then he though. This evening when I got home I asked him to explain to me what happen bc I couldn't understand. I guess this is what happen......he was lifting the log (from the end) to flip it and when he did the opposite end popped back up and hit him in the chin. He said he didn't even realize anything had happened at first and then he felt his chin because it was a little sore, that's when he noticed it was gushing blood out. I asked him why none of the other guys he was doing PT with said anything and he said it was still pretty dark out so no one really noticed till he pointed it out.

He goes back on Saturday to have the stitches taken out. Right now he has it uncovered, they told him when he was home to let it air out but when he goes out and to work to cover it up with a band-aid. We are hopping that it wont scar to badly but the doc said it probably will. I told him scars are just sexy and it would only make him look hotter then he already did.

I am happy that we had our Holiday pictures taken yesterday pre~chin bust. We still would have done them either way, I prob. would have ended up using a picture we already had from our TX trip for our Christmas cards though.

I'll let you know this weekend how the removal of the stitches goes, hopefully not to painful for him.