[Janet]

Originally Posted by magnolia

YES! Last year, September 25th, my birthday, we had the last remnants of Hurrican Rita come through our are. Trees were already weakened from Katrina almost a month before. Sam was taking me out to eat that night but....first we had to remove the tree that had fallen across our driveway, courtesy of Rita! While Sam was making a "clean-up cut" with the chain saw, a piece of the tree flew up and hit him in the face. I was not there when the accident happened, had come back to the house to check on the furbabies (we had no power - again! - without for 10 days after Katrina). The boys came running in the house yelling, call 911 and we need a bag of ice for dad! I took off running to where he was and he was laying on the ground with his face in his hands and all I could see was blood, lots of blood! I didn't know until almost an hour later that the chain say did not cut his face, the blood was from the broken (or should I say crushed) nose! He ended up with a broken left cheek bone (it was where his nose was supposed to be), a shattered nose, and all the orbits around his left eye were fractured or broken. Four surgeries later, the cheek is healed and where it should be, the torn tear duct in his left eye has been repaired, the orbital wall around his left eye has healed, and the reconstructive work on his nose has been done - and the one year anniversary is just over a week away. May have to have one more surgery to have an implant put under his left eye where bone is missing but otherwise, he's healed and doing great! I told him this year on my birthday, he's to stay away from power tools!! Luckily, he's on duty at the fire station that day so I don't have to worry about that, just any fires or accidents that may come up. He's thinking of taking the day off!! So last year has to be my worst birthday ever!

OMG!!! Well the good thing???? There's no place but "UP" from that birthday!!!!