Home and resting...

Hello from our yellow couch! Well, surgery went well on Thursday. It lasted about an hour and twenty minutes. They did a Doppler on the baby before and after the surgery, both were great! My mom has the picture on her phone of what my leg looked like afterwards, so if everyone isn't too grossed out I'll post it later. It's really not that bad, just about a one inch incision at the top and at the bottom and few other small ones where they put the screws in. Oh- and during the surgery they discovered that apparently I broke my ankle too!! A piece of my inner ankle bone had broken off, so they screwed it back on. I now own a titanium rod (full length of my lower leg) and 5 screws. To answer your question, they will stay in there forever. The nurses at Harris in pre-op, post-op and in-patient were all SUPER nice! My dad stayed until about 5pm on Thursday, Carson's dad stopped by and my mom is in town until Wednesday. WOW! She has been a HUGE help around the house, with me, and given Carson a break to get some of his "stuff" done. Carson stayed with me at the hospital on Thursday night... poor thing, I woke him up needing help about every hour and a half. Thankfully since I was able to use my crutches "properly" and able to control my pain on just hydrocodone, they let me come home Friday afternoon.

I'm sleeping more and more throughout the night... not usually more than 5 hours at a time because I wake up in pain. I've tried to be tough and not take as much medicine or take it less often, but I usually end up in pain and go back to the same routine. Besides pain medicine, my other two favortite meds are: food/sweets and visitors!!! I really get some serious spurts of energy and forget about the pain when people come to see me. So thanks to everyone who has already come or is coming in the near future... I LOVE IT!!!!!!! :)

I've had some crazy dreams since this happened since I'm doing my fair share of sleeping these days. But I've have quite a few consistency in some of the dreams... and that is dreams that our little one is a BOY! We'll have to wait of course to find out, but who knows... my mother's intuition may be right! We go to the OB doctor and the ortho doctor both on Thursday just for check-ups and I'll keep you posted on what they both say.

I cannot even express how much your sweet thoughts, prayers, and words of encouragement have meant during this time for our family. We're so grateful and appreciate them more than you can imagine. Carson and I are truly blessed. Speaking of.... he had a great interview last week, no word yet and another one tomorrow with someone else. We'll keep you posted on that too. Until then... I'll still be here on the couch if you want to call and stop by, I'd love to see you!