Excuse me Sir...Did you just say Surgery????

Hunter had surgery on his nose and sinus' last Wednesday. I know most of you were in the dark and surprised but it was kind of a last minute decision, as we are only weeks away from the NFR in Vegas. It was a tough decision for us to make but Hunter had been pretty miserable. It started out as a sinus infection right before our Circut Finals in Kansas City, MO and it got so bad up there that we had to go to an Urgent Care clinic. They took X-Rays and thought we should see a specialist as soon as we got home. We were a little worried but really thought the medicine the Dr. gave us would clear it up and we'd be on our way. Not so much...Hunter got right in to the Ear, Nose and Throat place and they examined the X-Rays and gave Hunter a different medicine and said his sinus cavity was fully clogged. One of the worst cases they'd ever seen. They wanted to see us back in a week and thought the medicine would help but if not they reccomended surgery. Well, the big day came and we were really hoping things would have loosened up and it wouldn't require surgery, but that wasn't the case. We knew Hunter had to do something because he couldn't go to Vegas feeling the way he did at KC, and they told us the sooner the better as recovery time is 4-6 weeks. They set the date for this last Wednesday! We got there and reminded the Docter that we only had 4 weeks max to work with and Hunter needed to be in prime shape for the Finals. He assured us he would only do what was neccessary and leave the rest for a later date. Turns out Hunter's divider cartilege was bent over completely blocking his left nasal. When they got it straight, the pus and infection came rolling out. The Doctor said it was really bad and a good thing we went ahead with the surgery. So here we are, setting at the home flushing Hunter's nose out every hour. He also has to wear this drip pad in case he gets a nose bleed. He was on full bed rest for 2 days and is now able to move around a bit but can't go anywhere or do anything. He's definitly getting very restless. Yesterday my Aunt Heather came to pick H up to stay the night, and we noticed a spider in H's room. Seeming as how I'm scared of spiders I hollared at Hunter to come kill the thing. It was hanging down from his web in mid air. Hunter found the perfect wacking stick but failed to connect the first 5 times....then he finally hit it, and it flung right thru the air at Aunt Heather. We all started screaming and jumping around. But it missed all of us and landed in the floor. The excitement was just to much for Hunter though, his nose started gushing and it took us awhile to get it stopped. Guess now we know he's not ready for that kind of action yet!! Anyway thank you all for the prayers and calls and pizza!!! Keep them coming our way though please. We really need this to be healed in exactly 3 weeks. God is Good!! love you guys!

Houston and Hunter posing with their nose diapers...or snot catchers as H likes to call it!!

Hunter has to stay on the couch so he doesn't get nose bleeds...