Friday, October 17, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Eye Doctor Adventures
Can you read the line above the red?
I've needed to go to the eye doctor to get a check up so that i can get new contacts and so has David. Carolyn really likes her doctor so we decided to go there. He was great! He explained everything really well and it was fun.
At the end he dilated our eyes to take a picture of the inside, interesting huh? (By the way, you can tell that I'm a true blond and of Scandinavian descent by the inside of my eye.) Then he gave us some trial contacts to use for the week and see how we like them. I decided to try out a new brand.
At first i couldn't tell if they were good or not because when your eyes are dilated you can't really focus or see well anyway. As the dilation wore off i realized that the contacts were not working for me. While we were driving home stop signs were blurry and the leaves on the trees and i had a head ache. Not cool or good. I was confused because my prescription changed so i should have been able to see better not worse. So i switched back to my old contacts for the night and decided to call the doctor in the morning.
I went back in to see the doctor the next morning and it turns out that the problem was that the contacts didn't fit my eye right and so it was making my vision much worse in my left eye. He gave me a different brand of contacts to try and then checked how i saw with them and everything was great! So i think these will work out. Interesting that how a contact fits can change how well you see though!
I'm going all out and getting new glasses too since it has been 4 years. It'll be fun to have some new glasses. That's my fun for the week.
In other news, I'm still hobbling around with my one crutch. I think i look like tiny Tim "god bless us, every one!" Haha! I am starting to lose my limp so that is nice! I'm also walking more around the house and work without my crutch, although i get reprimanded a lot at work for it. I tried going up and down stairs without crutches for the first time this week. It tires me out pretty fast but it's OK. All of the tape is off of the scar and I'm thoroughly grossed out by it. I'm finding it more disturbing than i thought i would to have a scar on my leg. I feel gross and disgusting. It's lumpy and ugly. (As you can see I'm still trying to deal with it :)
So that's life. My scar is ugly and i hate it and i can see!
Happy Halloween!
It's Halloween time again! That means new decorations at work! Rebecca and I never though that we would like doing decorations (neither of us are too artsy) but we love it. It's so nice to have a break from spreadsheets (or surfing the Internet). This month has been pretty busy so it was nice to get creative and put something fun up. We decided that all of the secretaries would become a character and go up on the cabinet. We had a blast brainstorming who should be who. For example, I'm Frankenstein because i walk with a limp and have scars :) Good times! So Happy Halloween to all who visit Teacher Ed! Wahoo!
Friday, October 10, 2008
Conference Breakfast
General conference time means awesome breakfast time!
Every Conference David's roommate orchestrates an amazing breakfast for Sunday morning before conference starts. It's always fantastic and you get so full that you don't eat for the rest of the day. It was wonderful.
I, however, am blogging about my fantastic Saturday morning conference breakfast with David. He came over and we made waffles and used the plum jam that is more like syrup for syrup. David bought strawberries and blackberries to go on top and it was so good! I love him!
Finally i can blog!
This week i came back to school and work. It has been so busy and hectic all week for me. Between things being wrong at work and me not being in the office to help fix them a lot of things piled up. I've been working non-stop (not very common) all week at work to get caught up and get back on track. I think we're finally almost there.
School has been a beast too! I missed a test while i was getting better so i had to make that up. I also missed an assignment for my huge group paper. Not a great week to miss but I'm almost caught up with that too. I took the test yesterday and I'll get the assignment done tonight or tomorrow, hopefully. This weekend will be pretty busy with working on the big paper but after that's done i think I'll be all caught up and back to normal.
In other news I'm doing great! My leg is healing well. The whole process wasn't painful at all for me. They prescribed 40 pain pills for me and i only took 4. Seems that the surgery is supposed to be much more painful than it was for me. I'm not complaining :) I figured out the showering thing pretty well. Glad press and seal does wonders, it sticks right to your skin so you don't have to tape it at all!
I'm getting pretty good on crutches and i am only using one now. I actually want to get a cane (much cooler than a crutch). I get pretty tired after a whole day of doing my normal activities but i think I'm getting used to it. For a couple of days my left hip was hurting pretty badly because of all of the work it was doing. I was terrified that i would have to get surgery on that hip next (i actually decided that if i had to i would do it in January). Thankfully, it has stopped hurting. I have started putting more weight on my right leg and that helped. I actually can hobble around my apartment unaided by crutches! Pretty awesome. So I'm getting there.
I had my follow up appointment with the doctor yesterday. He took my bandage off and i got to see the grossness for the first time. It's pretty gross. He said that the surgery was very successful from his point of view. It seems successful to me as far as i can tell. I'm not pain free yet but that's to be expected. There is a big section of my thigh that is still numb but he said that feeling should come back to that. I just have to stay on a crutch/cane for 6 weeks and then I'll be good to go. I can start up climbing and everything again this winter! Yay!
OK so i want to show all who want to see my scar, well it's just stitches with tape over them. So scroll down if you want to see it. If not just stop here. It's kind of gross so i won't be offended if you don't want to see it.
School has been a beast too! I missed a test while i was getting better so i had to make that up. I also missed an assignment for my huge group paper. Not a great week to miss but I'm almost caught up with that too. I took the test yesterday and I'll get the assignment done tonight or tomorrow, hopefully. This weekend will be pretty busy with working on the big paper but after that's done i think I'll be all caught up and back to normal.
In other news I'm doing great! My leg is healing well. The whole process wasn't painful at all for me. They prescribed 40 pain pills for me and i only took 4. Seems that the surgery is supposed to be much more painful than it was for me. I'm not complaining :) I figured out the showering thing pretty well. Glad press and seal does wonders, it sticks right to your skin so you don't have to tape it at all!
I'm getting pretty good on crutches and i am only using one now. I actually want to get a cane (much cooler than a crutch). I get pretty tired after a whole day of doing my normal activities but i think I'm getting used to it. For a couple of days my left hip was hurting pretty badly because of all of the work it was doing. I was terrified that i would have to get surgery on that hip next (i actually decided that if i had to i would do it in January). Thankfully, it has stopped hurting. I have started putting more weight on my right leg and that helped. I actually can hobble around my apartment unaided by crutches! Pretty awesome. So I'm getting there.
I had my follow up appointment with the doctor yesterday. He took my bandage off and i got to see the grossness for the first time. It's pretty gross. He said that the surgery was very successful from his point of view. It seems successful to me as far as i can tell. I'm not pain free yet but that's to be expected. There is a big section of my thigh that is still numb but he said that feeling should come back to that. I just have to stay on a crutch/cane for 6 weeks and then I'll be good to go. I can start up climbing and everything again this winter! Yay!
OK so i want to show all who want to see my scar, well it's just stitches with tape over them. So scroll down if you want to see it. If not just stop here. It's kind of gross so i won't be offended if you don't want to see it.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
A little pain never hurt anyone!
It's over. I've been under the knife and survived. I actually think that I'm taking everything very well. I didn't end up staying the night in the hospital, I'm very glad about that! I'm just chilling here with Carebear and Alice enjoying my little "vacation" from school and work.
So here's how it went down...
5:00 am the alarm went off. i got up and took a shower (got all clean for the OR) and got ready/nervous.
5:40 am David came to get me and drove me up to the hospital. Carebear was going to do it but then poor Alice got sick and needed her mom.
6:30 am checked into the hospital after waiting in line behind a crotchety old man. then i got to get into my hot hospital gown (I'm lucky I'm so cute or else it would have been really ugly :) then the nurses asked me a bunch of questions and i signed some consent forms, got my IV and had a few more visits from my doctor and the anesthesiologist. I was so proud of myself, i was surprisingly calm and didn't cry even a little bit.
7:15 or 7:30 am surgery. Ahhh. I left David and went into the OR (it's a good thing that i couldn't see, no glasses, or else I'm sure i would have freaked out.) i got all situated on the bed and then before i knew it i was out. Good anesthesiologist!
9:00ish am i wake up in recovery and get taken up to my hospital room. Pretty short surgery, right?! i was still pretty doped up and kept falling asleep but didn't feel like i was breathing right so wanted to keep myself awake. I turned on the TV but i couldn't see anything so i went for the only voice i recognized, Rachel Ray haha. After about an hour of being there i started wondering where David was. the doctor was supposed to go find him after surgery and help him find me.
10:30ish am David showed up in my room. The doctor didn't recognize him in the waiting room so he didn't know that i was done. Eventually he figured it out.
From there i was still pretty tired but not in too much pain. I actually never got more pain meds at all. I was sore but it wasn't intense pain or anything like that. Sukie and Wudan came to visit me on their lunch breaks and that was fun. I think it was more fun for them to see me all doped up but I'm OK with being entertainment.
My doctor stopped by a little later to see how i was doing. He told me that i could go home whenever i felt like it. I have a follow up appointment with him next week. So the physical therapy guy came by to teach me how to use crutches right and then we were off.
It was ridiculously hot outside, not nice, especially since i was a little nauseous from the anesthesia. I made it down to Carebear's fine but my nausea got the better of me when i got a whiff of the lunch she had made earlier. Luckily for me i didn't eat too much of my lunch at the hospital so there wasn't much to come out (sorry to be graphic). David was so great and held my hair while i puked, my hero haha.
After that i was fine and i even ate some crackers later. David stayed with us and watched Iron Man and then he got everything ready for me to go to bed and then left. He was so great all day! He skipped work, class, and karate practice to stay with me and make sure i had everything! He's the best!
The rest of the night consisted of feeling bad for poor Alice and her fever, taking my first pain med and getting all situated for the night.
I slept pretty well and I'm doing well today. I'm a little bit more stiff and sore but that's to be expected. I'm very happy that i still don't really need the pain meds at all though! I would much rather not be on them. I'm doing OK.
So there's the update. I'm alive, I survived. I'll be back to my normal self pretty soon. Thanks for all of the concern!
So here's how it went down...
5:00 am the alarm went off. i got up and took a shower (got all clean for the OR) and got ready/nervous.
5:40 am David came to get me and drove me up to the hospital. Carebear was going to do it but then poor Alice got sick and needed her mom.
6:30 am checked into the hospital after waiting in line behind a crotchety old man. then i got to get into my hot hospital gown (I'm lucky I'm so cute or else it would have been really ugly :) then the nurses asked me a bunch of questions and i signed some consent forms, got my IV and had a few more visits from my doctor and the anesthesiologist. I was so proud of myself, i was surprisingly calm and didn't cry even a little bit.
7:15 or 7:30 am surgery. Ahhh. I left David and went into the OR (it's a good thing that i couldn't see, no glasses, or else I'm sure i would have freaked out.) i got all situated on the bed and then before i knew it i was out. Good anesthesiologist!
9:00ish am i wake up in recovery and get taken up to my hospital room. Pretty short surgery, right?! i was still pretty doped up and kept falling asleep but didn't feel like i was breathing right so wanted to keep myself awake. I turned on the TV but i couldn't see anything so i went for the only voice i recognized, Rachel Ray haha. After about an hour of being there i started wondering where David was. the doctor was supposed to go find him after surgery and help him find me.
10:30ish am David showed up in my room. The doctor didn't recognize him in the waiting room so he didn't know that i was done. Eventually he figured it out.
From there i was still pretty tired but not in too much pain. I actually never got more pain meds at all. I was sore but it wasn't intense pain or anything like that. Sukie and Wudan came to visit me on their lunch breaks and that was fun. I think it was more fun for them to see me all doped up but I'm OK with being entertainment.
My doctor stopped by a little later to see how i was doing. He told me that i could go home whenever i felt like it. I have a follow up appointment with him next week. So the physical therapy guy came by to teach me how to use crutches right and then we were off.
It was ridiculously hot outside, not nice, especially since i was a little nauseous from the anesthesia. I made it down to Carebear's fine but my nausea got the better of me when i got a whiff of the lunch she had made earlier. Luckily for me i didn't eat too much of my lunch at the hospital so there wasn't much to come out (sorry to be graphic). David was so great and held my hair while i puked, my hero haha.
After that i was fine and i even ate some crackers later. David stayed with us and watched Iron Man and then he got everything ready for me to go to bed and then left. He was so great all day! He skipped work, class, and karate practice to stay with me and make sure i had everything! He's the best!
The rest of the night consisted of feeling bad for poor Alice and her fever, taking my first pain med and getting all situated for the night.
I slept pretty well and I'm doing well today. I'm a little bit more stiff and sore but that's to be expected. I'm very happy that i still don't really need the pain meds at all though! I would much rather not be on them. I'm doing OK.
So there's the update. I'm alive, I survived. I'll be back to my normal self pretty soon. Thanks for all of the concern!
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