January 26, 2015

Hi everyone!

Well I guess you already know the big thing that happened this week.  

I went to the oldest McDonald's in the world on Wednesday after my doctor's appointments though!  How cool is that?  I was so happy that we found it.  We didn't even expect to find it but we drove by it and it has signs and a museum and everything that said that it's the oldest McDonald's in the world!  I got some cool pictures. :)

So...  I broke my finger in two places and dislocated it playing dodge ball.  It's been a hard week.  Probably one of the hardest in the mission so far anyway.  On Monday it happened (though I did win a game of dodge ball before. :) ) Then I thought it wasn't too bad so we waited till Tuesday morning to call it in when it wasn't any better.  Tuesday I spent all day at different hospitals being in pain.  The first guy we went to tried to put it back in place before the x ray and it hurt so bad.  Then they took the x ray and saw it was broke and dislocated.  Fancy that.  Then we went to the ER and was there forever.  They took a ton of x-rays and then they shot my finger up with a ton of shots (extremely not fun at all.) and tried to put it back.  The one doctor tried 3 times and each time he loaded up my finger with more shots and he couldn't get it back in so he called for backup and with the help of this more manly doctor they moved it a bit but didn't fix it. So Wednesday we went to this other doctor and he told me for sure I need surgery.  He gave me a referral and the referral has been what we've been waiting on ever since.  That's been pretty stressful because they said that I need it operated on within 2 weeks and optimally the first week so that's been just grand.  He said I'll possibly never regain full motion in my finger and that I'll have arthritis.  That's what I'm not happy about mostly...  Meh it's ok though.  That's about it for this week though!  Pretty average week you know just livin life to it's fullest!  Livin on the edge...  

Anyway Love you!  I'll let you know how everything goes!  Have a good week and don't stress out about it!  I fasted for it on Friday and got a blessing of healing Tuesday night so I'm taken care of.  Don't worry.

I almost hope they just go all like "oh it's too late you have to cut it off" then how sweet of a mission story that would be!  I would only have 9 fingers!  That would be pretty fun. :)

Try to have a good week and don't worry!  Things will be ok.  I love you!  

Elder Passey