Post Op Day 3

Not too much to report. Slept a lot today. Still in more pain than I want or need. Tried to work a little. Watched two movies. Have this strange desire to watch Pinocchio.

Until tomorrow...

Day Two Post Op

Okay, I take back everythinging I said yesterday about pain. At about 4 am I woke up with some pain in my ankle. It was still dark out and the whole house was asleep. As you can imagine I am not very quiet right now. I have crutches that make noise and drives the dogs crazy. I can't take the medicine on an empty stomache so I went back to sleep. At 8 am I woke up to even more pain. I ate and took the Vicodin. It seemed like the painkiller didn't do a thing. All day I was in horrible pain. Every step, every movement was worse than a knife through my ankle. I flexed my ankle once and the pain was unbearable. Won't be doing that again!

I got the best package in the mail. My parents sent me a waterproof cover for my cast so I could take a bath. That bath felt SO good. I washed all the sticky antibacterial cleanser off.

I spent the day resting, checking emails, and catching up on TV shows I have missed. I was much more tired today. I am taking 20 mg of Prednisone for a couple of days.

I went upstairs today for a minute. I accidentally erased my business phone outgoing message. When I erased it I also said sh*t. So the outgoing message said sh*t. Not exactly what I want my clients to hear when they call. So I had to go upstairs to rerecord the message. Going upstairs took awhile and was quite painful.

Let's hope tomorrow is a better day! Until tomorrow...

More Post Op

I am at home with my foot up. Sitting here watching TV and the movie "Cowboys and Aliens". Quite honestly this has been my best surgery so far. By that I mean, I woke up with very little pain, I was not ill at all from the anesthesia, and I got out of the hospital fairly quickly. There were a few hiccups:

It was planned that I would get two stress doses of prednisone. One during the surgery and after. This is because I have adrenal insufficiency. I got the dose during the surgery but after the surgery I was told the were no orders for the second dose. We tried to get ahold of my primary doctor to no avail. Finally my surgeon put in the order but that wasted the time that I could have been discharged.

In recovery some women came to give me a boot for my cast. I didn't know I was getting a boot and the nurse told them it was not ordered, so they left. While in the second recovery (where your family members come to stay with you) the women came back with the boot and said the surgeon ordered it. That boot didn't fit over the cast so they had to get another boot. That all took time again.

In all I was pretty happy, if you can be happy about surgery. At home I am taking the Vicodine at regular intervals so I don't have much pain. I am walking on the crutches as instructed. I am keeping my foot elevated. I am hoping this keeps all problems to a minimum. Also, I am off the Enbrel until instructed.

So, I will be catching up on my movies and TV for a couple of days. Laying low, so to speak!

I want to thank everyone for their kind words and emails. I got the cutest email attachment photos from my niece and nephew. They were holding up signs that said "Aunt Adrienne Get Well" "Aunt Adrienne Speedy recovery" too cute for words! They are 7 months and 1 yr. 5 mo. old.

Until tomorrow...

Post Op

Surgery went well! Got a cast and crutches. The pain has not set in yet. YET! 

Will write more later.

Tomorrow's The Day

I started the morning with a surgical wash of Hiboclens.  Boy, wasn't that fun!  I opened the liter bottle and immediately dropped it.  Orange stuff all over the place.  After I cleaned that up, I got in the shower and washed myself all over with it, including my hair.  It was so much fun, I get to repeat the procedure tomorrow morning!


Then I ran some errands.  Got some cash since I will be unable to drive for many weeks.  Picked up some prescriptions, got my mail.  Then I went to the medical supply store to see if they have the type of waterproof cast cover that I want.  I am so silly that I want to be able to take a bath and shower in the next six weeks.  They didn't so my parents are going to mail me the pump-up type their doctor sells.  Pump up the volume! 

Then my clients went crazy!  Everyone started calling and emailing.  Some to wish me the best and others to get in their last minute items.  "Can you do this before your surgery?"  So I was working until 7 pm.  Then I ate and watched the last bit of Harry's Law.  Now I am working again and I am hungry!  I think it is psychological.  I know I can't eat after midnight so now I am starving.  It is kind of like how I eat when I watch Biggest Loser. 

I plan to get some sleep at some point and wake up at 4:45 am.  I have to take another Hiboclens shower, dress and get to the hospital at 6 am.  I already have my bag packed with some things (book, Ipod, medical papers)  and a small emergency bag just in case I have to stay overnight. Then I will write on my ankles NO on the ankle that gets no surgery.  I don't want any mistakes!!

I was so nervous back in April but my ankle has been hurting so much in the last four days that I am actually looking forward to the surgery.  Every step is like a knife in my ankle. Even driving hurts now. 

Well, tomorrow will fix the problem!  Until tomorrow... 

Two Days To Go

Today I went for my second pre-op doctors appointment. All went well until I gave blood. Now I have been giving blood almost every month for 20 years. I also give myself shots. So, I am not afraid of needles. They don't make me woozy or nervous. Today I was giving blood when I started to see stars and the room got hot and I started to get nauseous. I almost vomited but I didn't. It took me few minutes to gather myself. I figure it was the heat of the day, the stress of the impending surgery and the small vein they were using. My right arm vein was burned with potassium a number of years ago and now I only have one good arm.

I am a bit nervous but a few days ago my ankle began hurting again ALOT! That helps me feel I am doing the right thing.

I still have some vacation photos to post. I am just so tired...

Until tomorrow...

A Death in the House

Yes, there has been a death.  It was sudden and unexpected.  We had just come home from our vacation and didn't expect it.  We barely got to say farewell.

Who died you ask?  Our media room television.  I just watched a show on it when we returned home on Saturday and Sunday morning we had sound but no picture.  Then no sound or picture.  It was a sad moment.

That TV was really big and very heavy.  It was given to us by my step-grandmother when she moved out of her home.  It took two of us to lift it off the stand and put it on the floor.  We then used the dog pillow to drag it into the dining room.  We have no clue how we are going to get it down the stairs and in the car to take it to the recycling center.

Since I have surgery in two days, I decided I better go out and get another TV really fast.  I did some research and got in the car and drove to Best Buy.  I bought a really big LCD 42".  (Okay for me it is big!) It is only a few inches bigger than the other TV but it just seems so much bigger without the tubes and such.  It didn't take much time to set up and make everything work.  It doesn't have enough plugs for all of our old stuff that takes the old plugs so we will have to unplug the DVD player to plug in the Wii.  Oh, well.  They don't make it easy, do they?

Then I spent the day shopping for food so we will have food for the first week while I am laid up.  I got all my favorites just in case I don't feel well.  Potatoes, rice, tater tots, etc.  I even bought vegan jello just in case.  I got soy ice cream and ice pops.  I still need to get ginger ale.  I have frozen food like some soup in the freezer.

I will post some vacation photos soon.  Everything is happening so fast these days!

Until tomorrow...

Vacation part two

Since we have been on vacation in Palm Desert, we have done a few things. Since I can't walk too far some of the activities we normally participated in we have had to skip. Such as the street fair in Palm Springs. We went to the Salton Sea where we walked around a bit. It was an interesting place to visit. If only it smelled better. It smelled like a sulphur bath mixed with dead fish. Yum!

We also visited Pioneertown! Pioneertown is a town built out of the old Hollywood sets. This is where they shot many of the old time western movies. Some of the sets have been turned into real houses and folks live in them. The little post office is the most photographed in America. Then tonight we went on a Art Walk. I think I over did it with the walking.

Tomorrow is our final full day. So sad! There is talk of coming back here and other family trips next year. We will have to see how busy we are.

Until tomorrow...

Vacation Week

The vacation is half over, it is sad. Today was massage day. My massage was fine. I have had better. I had a hot stone massage which is my favorite. Last time I had this massage, the masseuse put the stones up and down my legs and arms. This guy just used the stones to massage my legs and arms. It was nice but not as effective.

We have been hot tubbing every day. It is nice and relaxing. We have been eating too much! Tonight was Mexican food. I had a burrito. It was fine.

I have to do my Enbrel shot tonight. It is one week until my surgery. I tried to get a water proof cover for my cast but the medical supply company didn't have one.

Not sure what we are doing tomorrow, it depends on the weather. It is supposed to be windy.

Until tomorrow...

Recap HAWMC - #HAWMC Day 31

Recap HAWMC. You did it! 30 posts in 30 days. Which was your favorite prompt?  Which was the most difficult? Which ideas will you reuse? Who was your favorite fellow blogger? 

Okay, it is finally done!  I think this will be my last blogger challenge for a long time.  I am tired of coming up with things for each topic.  I find it tedious to write about things that I just don't care about like my health mascot.  I enjoyed writing about the lyrics to "Somebody I used to know".  Most of the posts just seemed tedious.  Some of the posts I had written before when I did the other challenge.  I am just happy I finished the challenge and it is done.

Now I can write about real stuff.  We are on vacation.  Originally I was supposed to get the surgery in April and then if I was able, I would go on the vacation we planned nine months ago.  Then the surgery date was screwed up and now I am on vacation pre-surgery.  Yes, it is probably better that I am not on crutches but I am still sort of limping around and not able to walk far or without pain.  So there are not too many things I can do in the tourist department.  Oh, we are in Palm Desert and it is hot. So far we have had lunch with a friend, gone to the Salton Sea, and went to see The Hunger Games.  Tomorrow we are going for massages!  I am getting a hot stone massage.  Of course we are sitting by the pool and in the hot tub.  The pool is a bit too cold for me but others are swimming.

Until tomorrow...