Sunday, July 18, 2010

MY SURGERY!



July 16th, had my very first surgery. I'm not counting my surgery for wisdom teeth removed or my C-Section. This was a REAL operating room, just like on ER or those other Hopital shows. My Dr. had some cool music playing and the room was filled with masked people, all you could see was there eyes and I didn't see much of that because the "Happy Juice" kicked in.

I was having surgery on my foot. I have my dear fathers weak ankles, they pronate. Well, they have caused me so many problems over the years that I sprain and twist my ankle quite often. It has become so bad that my Dr. said that I tore my tendons that hold my ankle into the socket and therefore have NO support; which makes me fall more often.

I came to with the Nurses yelling at me to wake up and open my eyes and to take some deep breaths. Then they had the gaul to take me off the bed and put me in a chair! The Dr. later told me that once he got into my foot, he couldn't sew my tendons back together because they were COMPLETEY gone. There had been so much damage that I pretty much shredded them. So he had to graft some new tendons out of muscle to give me support. Hopefully, it will work for a LONG TIME!!

So now I have this lovely soft cast on. The Anasthesiologist gave me a nerve blocker in the back of my knee which has numbed the entire nerve system in my leg. Plus, I have a medicine pump constantly pumping medicine into my foot. So, for the time being, I have no pain. I'm sure by Monday, everything will have warn off and I may be singing a different tune. I have crutches to get around with and they are sooo not fun. A fat woman on crutches is just not a pretty sight in my opinion! I'm already tired of laying around and elevating my foot, of not being able to walk or do things for myself. I feel like such a burden alreay and it's only been 2 days. This is suppose to go on for 3 WEEKS!! It's going to be a LOOOONG 3 WEEKS!!!