Wednesday, December 03, 2008

A lot has happened since the last post.
Quentin’s ankle was hurting the week before Thanksgiving so Jennifer took him to the clinic to see what was wrong. They could not figure out what was happening so they told her to take him to the hospital. After going to the ER, they could not figure out what it was so they admitted him to the hospital. Long story short, after 3 days in the hospital, they figured it was a bone infection. They operated on his ankle to clean all the fluid out and put a tube in for 3 days. He was in the hospital for a total of 8 days and will be on crutches for the next 3 weeks. Jennifer spent all the nights and when I was in town, I would come and stay during the day so she could go home and get some rest and take a shower. He was released the Saturday after Thanksgiving, which by the way, hospital turkey is not so good, and is doing well and is getting around okay on crutches. He is expected to make a full recovery.
In other news the project I was working on is officially opened. We opened the bridge December 2nd with the mayor of Kauai present. It was a nice ceremony and the bridge was well received. I am not sure of my next assignment yet, but will keep everyone posted when I do find something out.

Pictures top to bottom:

Q in his hospital room.

Q's ankle surgery

Some pictures of Indie for you dog lovers

The final product - Kilauea Stream Bridge

Opening day - left to Right - Alex Pascual (County of Kauai Project Manager), Bernard Carvalho Jr. (Mayor of Kauai), Myself and Walter Sohl, my project engineer.