Grateful Tonight

It's Tuesday. Got this photo on my phone yesterday. Finally heard the whole story tonight. Mark went down to the dunes this weekend with his quad and some friends. I think the whole world goes there on spring break. It's down by Delta, I guess a massive collection of sand dunes and such. He tried a very high jump a couple of times and decided he needed to give it more juice so the last time really gave it the gas and found himself flying . . . . HIGH . . .! Sounded like some sort of suspended animation as the quad flew way past the landing spot then just fell straight down to the ground . . . he thinks he must have been about 40 feet up. He adjusted his boots so when he landed his legs wouldn't come off the pegs and break but didn't estimate the strength it would take to hold his face away from the handle bars. As I type I just can't help but be a little anxious . . . . hmmm. Anyway, his goggles and helmet took a lot of the blow. He spent some time with the on-site EMTs as they watched his blood pressure and the one girl got really nervous about his pupils. BP finally went down and pupils were responding. This was Friday and he spent the rest of the weekend mechanicking on his friends bikes and didn't really have the desire to do much more riding. Of course I know none of this until yesterday . . . just wondered why the uneasy feeling all weekend. Final diagnosis . . . broken nose, nothing they can do but give him some pain pills and he needs to watch the concussion symptoms. A lucky lucky, blessed, blessed man. Ken has suggested knitting, quilting, sewing, gardening, fishing, ceramics or tole painting as new hobbies for Mark.