Football Frenzy

Okay - yeah I know - this picture has nothing to do with football - I'm going to get to that in a second. This is a picture of John though - and he is the subject of the main story....

Also in this picture is "Hummer" (for the love of God - who gave this poor dog that name). Anyway he is a little yorkie boy that was rescued from a puppy mill and needed transported from southern illinois to the Iowa. And so I signed us up for transport from Effingham IL to Peoria IL. This poor little thing was just fur on a skeleton. I have never seen anything like it.

Okay - so on to the subject of this post "Football Frenzy". On Jan 2nd we had a "January Thaw" and John and the boys decided to play a pick up game of touch football. Ian questioned it when his Dad said he wanted to play. He said "Did you ask Miles if you could play". Well Ian must have been having a premonition - it wasn't that long later than Miles brought John back. He had fallen on his shoulder - so off to the emergency room. Well luckily they started the big drugs soon! It turns out he tore his rotator cuff and separated his shoulder. It took a week before he could get an appointment with a surgeon and finally got surgery last Friday - the 13th! But everything is going good - got a BIG incision - BIG PAINKILLERS....he's bored already. He has another 2 weeks before he goes back and 3 weeks until he can start physical therapy. Then 3 months of physical therapy before he'll be back to work.

So I don't think he's going to play football next time they ask...