the surgery ....

I hope your Saturday is going well...

Me I am doing ...ok.. Thursday night I didn't sleep at all, my foot hurt, and I was terribly nervous about surgery.The next morning I got up and got ready. Took a shower , washed my hair, had my mom french braid it so that I didn't have hair all over the place during surgery.

Put my clothes and my boot on, and drove to the hospital, well I rode parents drove me. When we got there I was still very nervous and weepy. I have found I don't like a bunch of chatter and joking around when I am this nervous it seems to just add to the pressure of the situation.

I checked in and got my hospital wrist band, and waited to be called back.

Then my nurse Mary (pre op nurse) came and got me, I took my sister back with me (she drove down to be with me during surgery), I think my mom was upset that I wanted my sister there, but my sister totally gets the nervous thing and we are really close. I just needed her calming presence there. So the nurse came and asked me all sorts of questions .. put an ALLERGY wrist band on me, because i have drug allergies. Then I had to do a pee test.. why ? i don't know .. lol but i did . Grateful for the potty break tho- nerves do this to a girl I think. Then I changed into my patient gown and crawled on the gurney. Then she put the iv in. My sister let me squeeze her hand til it almost came off... lol.

My dad got my crutches and stuff so he would remember to take them to the car. He was pretty fascinated with the crutches .. kept making them bigger and smaller and putting them under his arms .. Then my 64 year old father with crutches under his arms picked them up and acted like they were machine guns... Just goes to show you that boys don't ever leave the man. it was hilarious we laughed quite a bit. My anesthesiologist came over said "Hi I am Ryan ... I am gonna be doing your anesthesia" But I was thinking "omg he is totally handsome and rugged looking ... yay me"

Then he asked me a bunch of questions on how I do with anesthesia .. do i get sick ... hard time waking .. those sort of things. All were yes answers. So he said he would help me the best he could so i could come out of it. My surgery was delayed because my doctor's staff had scheduled patients when he was supposed to be at the hospital . He was really mad at them, and he told me he was sorry he was late that He felt badly that he was not there for me when he promised. (he is a great doctor) Then he wrote on my foot that he would be operating on. (it tickled and he laughed) Then Maggie my surgical nurse came to get me, and wheeled me down the hall- I started crying because of nerves. The surgical halls are VERY cold . The Operating room was freezing ..and there was music " I got the rockin pneumonia and the boogey woogey flu" ... hey he listens to old rock instead of classical.. I think i like this about him. Well besides the fact he is hot .. blonde hair blue eyes. I really am lucky he is a specialist in foot reconstruction. A good doctor .. he explains EVERYTHING so i understand before he does anything. Then I scooted from one table to the next I think I said " ohh here is where I become unladylike" Ryan and my nurse laughed and said "we won't look promise.. as he undid the bows on the back of my patient gown..

He then set up my monitors and had to go underneath my gown near my breast "Sorry sweetie, I know we just met " I laughed and said no biggie, as long as this is part of me getting better it is totally fine. He put an oxygen mask on my face and told me to breathe deep .. and then well the next thing I know I was in recovery and VERY nauseated. They gave me two different drugs for the nausea but it was erally bad.

They then moved me to post op. Where my nurse Tabitha took care of me . She was super nice. I felt really bad because she had to help me with a bed pan twice but that is because they were flushing fluid through me to help me with the nausea... Have I said that Water play is a hard limit for me? Well it is.. I am not into watersports ... lol. I had some dry heaves .. (god I would rather throw up really) but after I felt better I changed into my dress (i brought it because pants would be hard to put over my surgical cast. See above picture. my leg and foot are completely swollen like 20 x the size of my other foot and leg. I have a rash on my thigh and my other leg (not sure what from probably all the medication they have floated through me. They say the swelling will go down once the foot and everything starts healing ... let's hope so I don't want a ginormous left side and a normal right side ffs.

I finally got home around like 8 pm last night i promptly went to bed and slept woke up ate some oyster crackers and had a pain pill. Then fell back asleep for three hours... woke up and nausea was gone. My mom made me some soup. I am pretty much completely incompacitated or however you spell that word.. means I can't care for myself . I have to have someone help me get to the bathroom, help me change .. everything. then someone has to put pillows under my thigh and foot I have to keep it elevated (this is supposed to help with swelling also.

I woke up this morning at 9 crutched to the living room and the recliner, when I got there I fell asleep again until 11. My mom made me a chicken pot pie ... (yum) and i had a couple crackers to help with my pain pill ( i am on a four hour schedule) So mom wakes up so that i can have them on time so I don't go completely into pain. You can never catch up with pain meds if you don't take them right.. you stay in pain. Bleh .. NO THANK YOU.

My next door neighbors brought me a get well card! I thought that was so sweet. Also she rented a redbox movie ... when they are done they bring them to me to watch. I do the same for them. We also switch off our netflixes .. lol.

Waiting for my dinner to get here... and then it will be time for another pain pill .. and I will be asleep again ..