Why Jack is destined for greatness....

Last sunday Jack leaned on a screen in an open window that turned out not to be attached at the bottom. Meeting no resistance what so ever, he fell 20 feet onto our concrete driveway below. I was in the hall. Darren saw it happen out of the corner of his eye. His scream, "go downstairs" started the scarriest several hours / days of my life. We were taken by ambulance to OHSU. Jack was given x-rays, CT scans, abdominal ultra sounds, later a 90 minute MRI. Turns out Jack must have landed on his bum. He has 9 injuries (fractures, contusions, etc) starting in his hip / pelic area and up to his middle back. His organs, brains, nerves, everything else is totally fine. He is a miracle. He has ZERO bruising and other than where his IV was put in ZERO open wounds. Yup he fell 20' and has no cuts or bruises. None. Here he is w/ his neck brace in his room at OHSU. He loved visitors. Especially his brothers.

So his treatment is a back / body brace for 4 week to 3 months. Turns out no one really knows how fast little kids really heal so we'll see. We have a tiny walker which we were told he might want to use in a week or two...... He's been home less than 24 hours and has already taken several steps w/ his walker all by himself!

Darren ran out & got him a little chair since all the adult chairs he needs to climb into and obviously w/ pelvic fractures can't do that. He LOVES it! Darren also bought an assortment of super hero tee shirts. Since he is superman and has litteral "armor" for now.....

And we have a tiny wheel chair. The boys love to wheel him around the loop in our house.

God saved Jack. He will have our eternal Praise for that.

We are also trying to get the word out to check your windows / screens. If something like this can happen to us, something like this could probably happen to anyone. KGW did a story that was on the news. Here is the link to that. Here is a web site w/ the same mission. www.stopat4.com