DAY 5...

Well, so much for the last 4 days. My surgery took place on Friday morning and I thought for sure I would spending my time since then stitching, blogging, catching up on emails and just having fun in general. In the past, outpatient surgery has been pretty uneventful and I've been able to pretty much resume my normal activities within 24 hours. The surgery went fine, it look several hours to come out of the anesthetic but I continued to be drowsy and nauseous for the next 3 days. On the plus side - I have had NO PAIN. Thanks to the pain meds, however, they were the reason I have been so drowsey. GOOD NEWS. I weaned myself off the meds and went to bed last night with out any. No pain so far today so I'm thinking good old asprin will get me thru the rest.



I did get a shower on Sunday while Chuck was still here to pick up the pieces if necessary. But, I felt like my plan for wrapping my foot and covering with a plastic bag would take care of any possibility of getting the bandages wet. I used my new potting bench to sit on and was able to wash my hair... and get some clean pjs on....oh my that felt good. However, I could probably have sold tickets to the feasco that ensued during the process. Anyway ended up right side up and that was the most important. I didn't realize, tho' that I had gotten my bandages pretty damp. I really didn't feel like doing much of anything except going back and forth from the couch to the bed to the sunroom for those days.



Yesterday was better. Kayla and Kelsey stopped for a couple of hours in the morning. Mary came about 10am. I told her about getting my dressing wet so she went right to work removing the old dressing, cleaning up my foot and getting a new dressing on. Anyway, I got to see the incision. 3-4" on the inside of my heel and lots of stitches. It'll probably heal pretty clean.



The biggest challenge for me is trying to manuever that walker. My arms are pretty strong from doing laps in the pool, but my palms are very sore. I'm able to get most everywhere, tho' (except for my sewing room) and have even mastered getting in and out of the sunroom. In fact, I told Jennifer this morning "I feel too darn good to be tied to that walker!"




Yesterday Mary stayed until almost 4pm and we worked on getting bindings on some quilts. She's finishing up a new baby quilt for her great-grandson and I finished bindings on 5 small pieces. I can't believe I made these 10 years ago when I still lived in DM and worked at a shop. They were shop models. I like getting these checked off my list.


For some reason I'm stalled again with downloading pictures. I'm going to go ahead and publish this post and see if I can go back in and that way.


Wanted to show a pic of Braylon at his first birthday party. That was last Saturday in Cedar Rapids. He was really good considering all the people and all the gifts. He wasn't interested in playing in his cake, so mom disappointed that she wasn't able to get some of horrible messy pictures.