Engaging

29 July, 2007

Glorous Shower

Yesterday went so downhill it is unbelievable. Today has been my best day so far. Yesterday started poorly because I hadn't slept much the night before and then didn't eat much and was in a lot of pain, therefore taking my pain killers...without food. This caught up to me yesterday when I felt really sick to my stomach and only got worse. I started running a fever and couldn't hold down even a sip of ginger ale. It was probably the most sick (throwing up) I have been since I was a child. Sheer misery. My mother had already left and Justin was left nursing me. I just couldn't stop throwing up and he had no idea what to do. Finally we called the doctor who told me I need to take off the blood cot-preventing tights I had on (went from my toes to my groin and were very tight on both legs) and open my immobilizer up and remove the ace bandage, which was causing a tourniquet like effect, which was what was causing all the throbbing pain. Then he called me in a different pain killer. He didn't really have much advice for the heavy throwing up except to take my nausea medication and that I need fluids and food, but I couldn't hold either down any of those things. Finally Justin went to the pharmacy to get the new pain meds and also got me Swedish Fish and Pedalite. You think this sounds absurd I bet...but those Swedish Fish saved my life I think. I would just suck on them so that I was getting some sugar into my system and take the smallest little sip of pedalite. This went on for almost an hour (intake about 4 Swedish fish and like 6oz of pedalite but that was the most I had kept down in hours) and finally I started to feel better. In about 3 hours I had turned over a new leaf...Justin was amazed by the change in my color. He said I was so pale and finally I looked normal and felt normal. I even held down some rice later that night and we watched half of Pirates of the Caribbean (the first one, I hadn't seen it)...then I feel asleep.

I slept about the same last night as I have most nights...sleep a few hours, then up a few hours, then sleep a few more. The pain wasn't too bad. When I woke up this morning, I ate some toast and held down a normal amount of drink. All day I have managed to hold down some soup, some crackers, some watermelon and some tortilla chips. I think that is pretty okay! I feel the best that I have all week. We pulled out the trundle bed that was under the day bed that I am on and I basically have a full size bed up here in our living room. But it means I have a back to the bed, so I am able to sit up most of the day today, which I haven't done all week.

Improvement!!!

And I took a shower!! The doctor told me that I could rinse off as long as I didn't get the stitches wet. It was the most awkward but enjoyable showers I think i have ever taken. We basically sat me in the tub backwards and kept my bad leg (it doesn't bend) straight out and propped up on the back of the tub and then just washed my hair (and conditioner...yum!) and good smelling girly soap. It was great. Got on some more clean PJs and just relaxed all day. Finished Pirates, which was pretty good and have sat around all day. I bought a Game Cube (off Ebay) because of my surgery and I have been playing Zelda. Brainless but fun. It does exhaust me, which I find pretty pathetic!

So I would say today has been my best day by far. I go back to the doctor tomorrow morning to look at the stitches and such. I doubt he will remove them, but he is at least checking up on me. I will start working from home tomorrow. I couldn't possibly go to the office, for the main reason that I have to keep my leg propped up above my heart at all times to minimize swelling, which isn't really conducive of being a cubicle dweller. And I cannot really crutch around...I mean, physically I can, but it hurts so much still--the pounding. The furthest I go is to the bathroom on the far side of my living room, which is at most 10 feet and that just about kills me. Hopefully by Wednesday or Thursday I'll be able to go into the office, but I have VPN so I can do my work from home...now just hoping the painkillers don't kill any productivity.

Blah, I am definitely hit my limit of E News, VH1, MTV and the Food Network...and the tour ended today (woohoo Discovery Channel!) so I don't even have that to keep me entertained anymore. I have In Demanded every movie I can think of and just movies in general are boring me. I don't feel like watching a 2.5 movie...my attention span right now is MAX 60 minutes and that is really pushing it.

This is the longest post I have had in ages...shows my improvement! Now boredom sits in because the severe pain has passed.


But boy does my leg itch and I can't scratch it!!!

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