May Desktop Calendar!

Because you all should know by now that I love these, the May Desktop Calendar is up on Geninne's Art Blog!! Hip hip hooray!!!

So what's on tap for May for the younger Galloways you might ask? Well I'll fill ya in!

We had a good time on Cinco de Mayo (May 5th for you non-Spanish speakers, ha, ha.) with Jack having surgery on is nariz (that's nose). You may remember his bang-up job he did on it April 30th...anyways, they went up there, rooted around, straightened out his 5 pieces of bone and stuck a nice splint on it. Some fun facts the OR nurses learned while he was under anesthesia...Jack's pregnant (that's news to me!) and the SCD's on his legs (little foamy pad things they put around your legs that squeeze intermittently in order to prevent blood clots while lying still for a while) were in fact little midgets giving his legs hugs. He cracks me up.  I drove him home later that day and we just relaxed. Then he grilled chicken for dinner...because that's the way he rolls.

Pre-Op

Post-Op

We relaxed over the weekend and then Jack was back to work on Monday. He had a doctors appointment on Tuesday and they told him he could keep the splint on until Friday and then remove it...well while I was at a Pediatric Conference on Tuesday I get a text message with this:

with the caption: "I couldn't wait. It itched, so I wiggled it a little and it came half way off on it's own :). Looks straight and scabs look good!"

Haha, sorta reminds me of the time he broke his hand the last time he had surgery on his nose and got tired of the cast so he sawed it off using a pumpkin carver all on his own only a few weeks after having it put on! That guy just doesn't like to listen to medical authority!! :)

This was Jack Post-Op 2007...looked a lot worse than this go around because they had to re-break his nose to straighten it. Not this time though, it was still in fragments!!

Then he broke his hand playing basketball...after the doc had told him to not do physical activity while his nose healed. (2007)

So they put him in a cast...that he hated. (2007)

SO he cut it off and wrapped his hand in ACE wrap and tape and called it good. He's so crazy.

Anyways, so that's been our May so far but the upcoming days/weeks are hopefully going to be fun/exciting/non-injury filled!!

May 14th (Saturday) Jack is flying to Budapest, Hungary!! I'm really excited for him to get to present his Nuclear Engineering work in the conference over there. I've been praying for a while now that his trip will be better than his last time in Europe (Switzerland)! After a series of unfortunate events including but not limited to: luggage not arriving, food poisoning, migraines, trains trapping him on board so that he couldn't get off at his correct stop, hiking in the beautiful Alps and snapping gorgeous pictures only to have his jacket stolen WITH the camera in the pocket, etc...we are hoping for a much better experience on the other side of the world this go around! I will be holding the fort down and working pretty much every day he is gone...then...

On May 20th I'll be hopping a plane for Chicago to see our friends, Tom and Rachel, get married!!! Jack will be flying in to Chicago from Hungary on the 20th just in time to make it to the rehearsal dinner (he's a groomsman in the wedding) and then we get to hang out with Alinna and Daniel for a few days after the wedding! I'm so looking forward to that time with them to catch up and see the sights!! We're planning on catching a White Sox game, taking a trolley tour ride and probably enjoy some famous Chicago style pizza among other things.

Then the rest of the month will be dedicated to work, work, work. It's a busy month but I'm excited with all that gets to happen!! And don't worry...Jack will be taking a camera with him to Hungary so hopefully we'll get pictures of that trip and I will definitely be snapping pictures while in Chicago!! Until then...happy May!