Good Morning Sister Tate...
I just wanted to drop you a few lines. I just talked with Elder Tate and he wanted me to let you know that he has broken his foot.. He is ok and not in any pain. He was at the Institute building on campus walking on a rail and fell. He feels pretty crazy about doing that.. He has been to the doctor and is currently on crutches and is going to the doctor today and hoping to get off the crutches and get a boot. I told him if he needs anything to call me I am minutes away and a phone call away.. I will do my best to help keep your missionary comforted and what you would do as a mom.... He wants it stressed to you though he really is ok and he will be fine.He is such an awesome man.If you have any questions or need anything let me know.. He just didn't want to shock you he said on Monday.. Call me if you'd like to!
Shari Ferrin Tate September 9 at 3:48pm
OH MY GOSH! What am I going to do with that kid!!!! I'm just glad he wasn't on that treadmill being stupid! Did you see that video he sent me....I could've killed him!! So was he messing around on a hand rail? Maybe this will teach him!
Regina Harrell Gainey September 9 at 7:34pm
Yes he was.. He said he feels real dumb for it.. He cracks me up though.. No I havent seen the video. I will have to take a peek at it!!!LOL.
Shari Ferrin Tate September 11 at 12:46am
Any news/update from Elder Tate today???
Regina Harrell Gainey September 12 at 10:22am
I talked to Elder Bass this morning after sacrament meeting he said Elder Tate is wearing a Boot and has been told by the doctor that he has to wear it. If he does not he will have to have surgery.. elder Bass stressed that he is still in no pain and he is wearing his boot and doing what he needs to do so he does not have to come home for surgery... If you have any other questions call me or FB me.. TTYL.
Shari Ferrin Tate September 12 at 1:03pm
oh geesh. Glad the Dr. was direct with him....can't wait for his email tomorrow morning! Have a great day, thanks so much!
We'll let Elder Tate tell us what happened!
so it was p-day, and we were at the institute buiilding waiting for the campus elders to open the building so we could go inside and mess around with the table tennis, pianos.etc.
while we were waiting for them, i had the bright idea to go walk on a handrail, mind you that one side was about a 3ft drop, easy to jump up and off of, and the other... was like a 7-8ft drop because of the sunken in parking lot under the institute building.
well everytime i got on to balance and walk at the same time, i would always face myself the 3-4ft drop direction, so that at anytime that i lost balance, i would just quit the act and jump off.
well i got so good at walking on the bar sideways that i decided that it was time to walk on foot after another, kinda like a trapeze, with both my arms stretched out for balance.
well, i was doing really good until i got into my 10th step that i started leaning toward the right side, meaning the parking garage. well, i did what came to my mind, and that was Bail.
so i jumped out into the garage and landed my feet flat and perfect, BUT my falling momentum was going diagonally downward, meaning that my perfectly planted right foot was now being rolled to the right. i did roll out of the fall with as much grace as a total biff would allow, but it wasnt that much of pain. it just felt like a sprain which i could still walk on, if not limp.
then the night came on and it was killing me, so we got some ace bandage and wrapped it up, iced it and looked into the missionary medical book to find that if i was having such and such pain, it was because i had either bruised, fractured, or broken the 5th metatarsal of my right foot.
i called sis barry, she reffered me to a radiologist and i found out through xrays that it was busted clean in half.
THE GOOD THING is that its not misplaced in the break, its like braking a pretzel stick and then lining up the two pieces perfectly together so you couldnt really tell that it was broken.
they said that it was set up for perfect healing, but that i wasnt to walk too much on it, and none at all with out the boot.
the 5th metatarsal is hooked up to a muscle all the way up my calf, so every time i stand on that foot, that muscle flexes, and if it flexes, it pulls that gap farther and farther which will constitute the pretzel to become disarrayed, meaning surgery, meaning 6 months off the foot, meaning time to peace out florida :(
i am no longer in pain, im not allowed to tract anymore, its just an awkward boot that nathan could surely inform you about if you had questions.
other than that, everythings going good, im not getting transfered, and they are keeping us ZLs.
the first couple are just my foot and where it broke, then the temporary cast while it was swollen, and the last is the best
FREAKING DAD IS AWESOMEi was having a crappy day, my foot was hurting bad, long day on crutches, everything and then i get this package in the mail with a freaking broncos jersey with Tebow's name and number on it!!
completely made my day!
and I'm wearing it today for p-day also, that's that last picture.
pretty much the best gift.
ever. THANKS DAD
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