"Breaking" News

We interrupt our broadcast of the summer travel saga to bring you this bulletin:

Anya has broken her arm!

It happened just before noon today. She was heading downstairs to the basement, and was attempting to jump down the last few steps by leaping over the side. She tripped, and instead of landing as she intended, she pretty much face-planted into a Barbie VW Van, managing to catch herself with her right hand (or as she says, "I really just kind of landed on it).

Here's the location of the disaster:

As you can see, it may not have been the best decision to try and leap from that particular position.

Here's the remains of the Barbie Van, after it's impact with Anya's giant face (giant being a relative term).

Karen took her to the Instacare this afternoon and she got a splint, along with the sling you saw. Her arm is broken just above the wrist; it's called a buckle break -- the bone kind of bulges out, or bends like elastic in one place. We go to her regular doc on Tues or Wed and they'll put on a hard cast, probably for about a month. Then she should be good as new.

And now, back to regular programing...