First off, sorry if this post is boring. Obviously I haven't moved much except from the couch, the chair, the shower, and our bed... so I've taken a lot of pictures with my cell phone in between visitors to pass some time. I had to entertain myself somehow!!
Well, I've been holding off on the nasty picture but had too many requests for it from all my nursing friends, so sorry if it grosses you out. Here's my leg right after surgery. I only have a few incisions, but all the extra spots you see above the stitches around my ankle are "poke-holes" from where they used these gripper things to hold the bones during surgery.... with lots of bruising as you can obviously see. That yellow thing is just a dressing with ointment on it. But the good thing is that when it heals I should have minimal scarring.
Here is what I looked like for about 7 days after I got home from the hospital. I look pretty raggedy, but looking better now. That tubing to my leg is an "Ice-Man" which flushed ice cold water around my leg in this cool ice pack thing. I used it for about a week and I'm starting to feel better and haven't used it as much. (Thanks Cara for telling me about it) Please excuse all the mess. The basket was a really great gift from my brother and sister-in-law full of book and cute baby stuff, and I'm using it now as a basket to hold all the daily stuff I need. Thanks Laura!!
When I actually got up and went to the bathroom, this is what I came back to (beer in hand)...
Over the past two weeks I've received lots of beautiful flowers. This is a picture of the ones from our best friends Jeffrey and Allison that I got in the hospital.
And ones that the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner school sent me...
So Wednesday I went to the doctor and he said everything is looking great so far. They took off the brace and said to still keep it elevated as much as possible so the swelling would stay down and not stretch out the stitches. That's fine with me cause it throbs after hanging down for only 30 seconds. Here's some pictures I took of the x-rays that show off my new appliances! I was wrong... only 4 screws, not 5!! But as you can tell, they're pretty BIG screws...
The fibula break (smaller bone on the left) wasn't repaired because it will heal itself. Most of the time that doesn't hurt. It's only every once and awhile I move a certain way and it does. The orthopedic dr put me in a walking boot, which I love because I can open it a few times a day to work my ankle and most importantly scratch my leg!!!! After we got home from the doctor I got this awesome fruit bouquet from our friends, the Ozaetas.
And I could not believe the balloon that came with it! I laughed so hard because this little ducky on the balloon broke his right leg too! So YES I seriously took a picture of the cute balloon...
Then that night a HUMONGOUS surprise came. The wonderful, sweet girls that I work with brought me an abundance of food and this huge basket of goodies. I started crying when I read the card from all of the girls who were so generous and thoughtful. That was some seriously good pot roast, chocolate cake, brownies and chicken salad!! This is me excited about my basket (with my new large black boot in front)...
They also brought me these beautiful tulips too!!
Even after receiving all of these wonderful gifts of food and flowers, but sweet husband went out and bought me some more of my favorite flowers, hydrangeas!
I've been very, very spoiled over the past 2 weeks and wanted to say thank you to everyone! One last thing, we went to the OB yesterday and heard the heart rate again. Everything was sounded great! It was really cool because we could also hear our little one "kicking" the Doppler machine!! It made me smile to know that he/she is still ok after the surgery and everything that's been going on.
Thanks again for all the prayers too. Good news, I finished my last final this morning!! It took me awhile to complete it since I was kinda in pain, but it's done!!!!!!! Yippee!! One more thing down and hopefully will be able to start my clinicals in the near future. Off to enjoy our friends, the Henrys, who is here for the weekend! I'll post some pics next week of us with their cute little boy, Blake.
Well, I've been holding off on the nasty picture but had too many requests for it from all my nursing friends, so sorry if it grosses you out. Here's my leg right after surgery. I only have a few incisions, but all the extra spots you see above the stitches around my ankle are "poke-holes" from where they used these gripper things to hold the bones during surgery.... with lots of bruising as you can obviously see. That yellow thing is just a dressing with ointment on it. But the good thing is that when it heals I should have minimal scarring.
Here is what I looked like for about 7 days after I got home from the hospital. I look pretty raggedy, but looking better now. That tubing to my leg is an "Ice-Man" which flushed ice cold water around my leg in this cool ice pack thing. I used it for about a week and I'm starting to feel better and haven't used it as much. (Thanks Cara for telling me about it) Please excuse all the mess. The basket was a really great gift from my brother and sister-in-law full of book and cute baby stuff, and I'm using it now as a basket to hold all the daily stuff I need. Thanks Laura!!
When I actually got up and went to the bathroom, this is what I came back to (beer in hand)...
Over the past two weeks I've received lots of beautiful flowers. This is a picture of the ones from our best friends Jeffrey and Allison that I got in the hospital.
And ones that the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner school sent me...
So Wednesday I went to the doctor and he said everything is looking great so far. They took off the brace and said to still keep it elevated as much as possible so the swelling would stay down and not stretch out the stitches. That's fine with me cause it throbs after hanging down for only 30 seconds. Here's some pictures I took of the x-rays that show off my new appliances! I was wrong... only 4 screws, not 5!! But as you can tell, they're pretty BIG screws...
The fibula break (smaller bone on the left) wasn't repaired because it will heal itself. Most of the time that doesn't hurt. It's only every once and awhile I move a certain way and it does. The orthopedic dr put me in a walking boot, which I love because I can open it a few times a day to work my ankle and most importantly scratch my leg!!!! After we got home from the doctor I got this awesome fruit bouquet from our friends, the Ozaetas.
And I could not believe the balloon that came with it! I laughed so hard because this little ducky on the balloon broke his right leg too! So YES I seriously took a picture of the cute balloon...
Then that night a HUMONGOUS surprise came. The wonderful, sweet girls that I work with brought me an abundance of food and this huge basket of goodies. I started crying when I read the card from all of the girls who were so generous and thoughtful. That was some seriously good pot roast, chocolate cake, brownies and chicken salad!! This is me excited about my basket (with my new large black boot in front)...
They also brought me these beautiful tulips too!!
Even after receiving all of these wonderful gifts of food and flowers, but sweet husband went out and bought me some more of my favorite flowers, hydrangeas!
I've been very, very spoiled over the past 2 weeks and wanted to say thank you to everyone! One last thing, we went to the OB yesterday and heard the heart rate again. Everything was sounded great! It was really cool because we could also hear our little one "kicking" the Doppler machine!! It made me smile to know that he/she is still ok after the surgery and everything that's been going on. Thanks again for all the prayers too. Good news, I finished my last final this morning!! It took me awhile to complete it since I was kinda in pain, but it's done!!!!!!! Yippee!! One more thing down and hopefully will be able to start my clinicals in the near future. Off to enjoy our friends, the Henrys, who is here for the weekend! I'll post some pics next week of us with their cute little boy, Blake.
4 comments:
Poor thing! That leg looks pretty painful!
I'm so glad that you are feeling better and yes, thanks for the pictures, I was so curious to see what it looked like. Congrats on finishing your final! You're so close! :) Enjoy the R&R, you deserve it!
Love all the photos and the updates!
It looks like you are being pampered like a queen!! Keep resting! I am so glad that you are feeling a little better and that the little bebe is going so great!!
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