Ruth's Rock

Ruth is learning to ride a bike and she's doing great!  When we went to Armenia two years ago she just rode with training wheels and while we were there we didn't have any bikes!  We pulled some bikes out of the garage and off she went!  Crazy!  We're so proud of her!  We all went for a family ride and she just had to practice stopping and turning but she can ride straight pretty easily!

this is her hand making the OK sign...
the rock is on the left below her thumb...

The next morning the kids wanted to ride again at recess time...  Lijah and I were slow to get out and just as I was about to head out in came Ruth holding her hand and crying.  She fell off the bike!  After trying to get her cleaned up, I realized I wasn't going to get the rock out so I called Kev.  He took her to the Walk-In clinic...  they tried and took an X-ray...



Then they sent us to Minot to the doctors there!  They were worried about the bone and tendens/blood vessels!  We drove 2 hours and waited some more...  did all the needles and shots for the numbing.  The first nurse/doctor didn't get it out, either...  the next doctor came and tried to get it, push it, pull it, turn it...  in the end he had to cut a little and dig a little!  Finally...  it's out! He said he just delivered a rock!  Heh.

It's OUT!

What a day!  

Ruth screamed and kicked and said she'd never ride a bike again and that rocks shouldn't be anywhere...  When the rock finally came out she said she didn't even want to LOOK at it...  The next day she was already talking about riding the bike and looking at the rock...  :)