The bad news:
The Boyo called to tell us that he broke his ankle, and smashed his face. He lost his balance waving to a friend, and fell from a terrace - 18 feet to the pavement below. He landed on someone's bike and took out a tail light on a parked car. He's had one surgery (at one of the best orthopedic clinics in Germany) and is expecting another, once the swelling goes, down in 5-7 days.
The good news:
The Boyo called. People saw him fall, so he got to the hospital very quickly. He's alive and no apparent brain injury. We've talked to him twice and it sounds like he's being well taken care of and has plenty of visitors to keep his spirits up.
More good news:
International Skype is incredibly inexpensive. A twenty-minute call to a land line cost us...fifty-one cents. We will be using this quite a bit over the next few weeks.
These are the times when I'm really glad I have a knitting project to occupy my mind and a yoga class at the end of the day.
