The Crack (in the clavicle)

Austin and I have joined forces to bring you some very exciting news! Austin has his first broken bone. We're a little late in posting this cause it happened two weeks ago but that's alright. Tonight at dinner he said it almost feels totally healed. Here's the story though. Austin and his friend Logan were biking at Seven Hills (Austin's school) on friday night. Now that Austin is 13 he thinks he is superman. I thought they grew out of that stage at 5 but apparently it comes back in teenagehood. So he found a nice big jump and flew off of it. He cleared the pit after the jump but didn't land right. He flew over the handle bars, did a flip and landed on his shoulder. We were having a nice relaxing dinner at Andrew's parents house when Logan called. He said that Austin fell and hurt himself so they were ready to come home. We didn't think anything of it so Art and Roz went to get him. Then a few minutes later we got a call from a police officer asking for our information. He said Austin had been hurt and an ambulance was on its way. Ugh! So we got in the car and went down to Seven Hills. When we drove up there was a fire truck, an ambulance, a cop car, Art and Roz and Logan and his Dad. Austin was in quite a bit of pain and wasn't really sure what had happened. They got him fully stabilized in a c-collar and taped to a board because his neck hurt. Then they loaded him in the ambulance and off we went. After all that we found out it was a broken collar bone....and here's the proof. The xray is turned the wrong way but you can see the break right in the middle of the picture. Austin was so tough. He wouldn't take any pain medication until the Doctor insisted and put it in his IV.

Then it was time to go home and lay low. He sat an watched TV for three days and then it was time to go back to school.... :( Here they are watching a movie....well I interrupted them for a second to take the picture...they weren't really watching TV in that position.

Her is Austin a week later standing by the jump...he said he can't wait to get back on his bike.

And this was the look Summit gave Austin when he saw him in the c-collar, taped to the board. Not really...but I thought it was a funny picture.