Burns are the worst!

Hello everyone!

First off thank you all for the wonderful emails and calls to Mark during this interesting past month. For those of you who that may need a recap on what I'm talking about here's the jist.

On Friday, June 4th about 11:00 pm Mark and I were out camping with close friends. Their was a larger fire on the beach everyone was around and Mark was trying to put one more log on the fire. While stepping towards it he burned his right foot on the sand surrounding the fire. Immediatley he ran to the river for relief. My father did pick us up and we went straight to the Lakeview Hospital emergency room.

After the weekend we referred to Regions Hospital in St. Paul to their Burn Center. Mark did have 2nd and small 3rd degree burns on the bottom of his foot and all of his toes. He was being treated with bandages, pain meds, lots of healing cream, and was not able to walk for almost two weeks. His foot did have a slight infection so he had to elevate it and not walk on it unless need be.

It was a long two weeks with him not being able to work and being tied to our couch but he got a much deserved break. Our last appointment was with Dr. Moore at Regions just this last Friday. The healing is going well and no longer needs to do his dressings. He is working on walking without his crutches and working up to wearing a regular shoe until his next appointment on July 2nd. As his new skin needs to recover fully and he hopefully will have healed by the next appointment and more and be able to return to work :)

As Mark is able to walk for up to 4 hours now we will be doing our first camping this Saturday down at our close friends the Bonine's land. We will in be in Eau Galle celebrating Sara's 27th bday. Don't worry as Mark will be far away from fires this weekend! :)

T=Tah for now!

Mark & Sara