Surgery

****WARNING!!!!! Some of these pictures may be slightly disturbing!!****

Okay, so yesterday I had some lovely little surgery on the ankle. They did Evans Reconstruction, as well as another Brostrom procedure. (You can google them to see exactly what they do.) I got to Rocky Mountain Surgery Center at about 7:15, got back in the little room at about 8:00 or so then got changed, stuck with needles and what not, and waited for the doctor until about 9:00 or so. I met with some nurses, the anesthesiologist, and Dr. Riester, who is just awesome. Then the anesthesiologist gave me some medicine that is supposed to help calm your nerves and what not and I don't really remember anything from the point on, even though I was apparently awake haha. The next thing I know I am waking up in Recovery trying to take off my oxygen because I thought that it was my glasses haha. Such a pain. They gave me a ton of different medicines through the IV, then I was finally able to eat some crackers and animal crackers and cran-grape juice which was delicious and then the nurse, Julie, gave me some vicodin because i was starting to feel a little bit of pain in my ankle. Then I was finally able to get dressed and they moved me to a sweet chair recliner thing and then my mom came back and talked with the discharge nurse while I relaxed a little bit. Then my mom went and got the car while I went to the bathroom then we were off! We stopped and got a frosty at Wendy's then I got all situated in the basement..... where my life would be occurring for the next few days ha. I didn't sleep much and didn't really have any problems with pain except for one hour. It's been pretty nice to not have really any pain. I must have a high pain tolerance or something, I love it! Then my mom's teammate, Pam, came by and brought me flowers and amazing Dove chocolate ice cream bars. SO good. =D Anyway, things were great until I got up about 11:45 last night to take some more Vicodin and go to the bathroom. About two minutes after that I got extremely ill and threw up pretty much everything I had eaten the past 4 or 5 hours. Definitely not fun at all. Then I didn't really sleep at all through the night, woke up about every 20 or 30 minutes and was awake from about 2:45-4:30 and then finally slept for 4 solid hours, the longest stretch yet. Good thing my doc gave me anti-nausea medicine. It's working wonders for me now. Nana left this morning to go back to Utah, and I am so glad that she was here and was willing to take care of me through the night when I got sick and was having problems. She is just great. Robin came over with Makiah and Max a little while later and Makiah brought me these cute little fake flowers from the dollar store and Max gave me socks. It was too cute. They hung out for awhile and it was nice to have some company and not just watch TV. Then Melissa came over with Blake and Jacob and brought me lunch. So sweet of her. We talked of awhile and played with her boys and that was just great. Kathy and Stacy have also been calling to check up on me which is so nice of them. I sure am being taken care of. I love having all these people that care so much to make sure I am doing well, especially when I am home alone. They are so awesome. So now here I sit, watching more NCIS being bored and elevating my foot. It has been quite the crazy past like 30 hours and I will be so glad when I no longer have to be on crutches because I am already sick of them. Maybe I'll go take a nap before anyone else comes home or comes over. There are some pictures below, most of which are from the night before the surgery so you can get a slight glimpse of what kind of things my ankle was doing that led to my surgery. ha, warning, some may be a little gross. =D

Gotta love IV'S

After the nurse cleaned my ankle she wrapped it so they knew for sure which ankle they were operating on. They also wrote on it like 5 times.

This cool picture was in my Pre-op room

Oh IV'S

Oh how I'll miss being able to move my ankle in cool ways

My leg looks anorexic or something here, quite disturbing

swollen, bruised hand. It was a lot worse before

Cute little Jacob

Blake was sharing his Frosty with me and had a huge scoop so he ran over to me so that it wouldn't drip. He is too cute

Then he was sharing with his brother

Darn heavy cast

Flowers from Pam =]

I'll probably update on the good old ankle in a couple days. Have a great weekend!

All for one and one for all and all for love!

SO pretty much I am just a big slacker again. So much has happened the past couple of weeks it's just insane. Bryan came up to Logan for a night and that was fun. Megan, Sarah, me and Bryan went bowling and watched movies and just hung out. Wednesday after my first class Megan and I went to Salt Lake to drop him off at the airport. We stopped at the Layton Hills mall to get some delicious Chick-fil-a which was awesome. Then when we went to leave, my car wouldn't start... it was quite strange, but don't worry, it started up after a few minutes. Then, on our way back to Logan we hit a little bit of traffic because there was a side on the side of the road that looked like it has rolled and then it was completely torched. Like all that was left was the frame. It looked scary. Then, it was time to pack up a little and study study study! Friday I went to Provo for the weekend to take a bunch of stuff to my Nana's house for the summer so that I wouldn't have to take it all home, it was great. I got some studying done and some sleep as well. Megan and I went to a single's ward in Pleasant Grove that she might be going to in the summer and it was just awesome..... sorta ha. It seemed like they were all older though and it was just interesting. They were mostly girls and it was slightly awkward haha oh well. Then it was back to Logan to study and get ready for the drive HOME. Monday was full of studying and cleaning and packing, it was so busy. Tuesday, I had my Human Development and politics tests. Then more cleaning and packing. It was a bitter-sweet day for sure. That night, my last night in Logan, Sarah and Megan brought their beds into mine and Jessi's room and we had a big sleepover. It was just great. I miss those girls oh so much. Wednesday I had my econ test, got a parking ticket, but got out of having to pay the ticket which was way awesome, and then checked out of my apartment and then drove for 6 hours through Wyoming. I do not ever want to make that drive again. It was soooo boring and miserable. It was nice to have some alone time though and just think and what not. Then I got to Laramie that night and hung out with Laura and we stayed up till like 3 a.m. or so. Wednesday she had a test and then we left for HOME. We stopped at the pull off that they have at the border and took some pictures. I just love being back in Colorado oh so much. I sure have missed it. Thursday night Bryan and I went over to Jackie and Chauncey's place and just hung out with them for a while, had some pizza, and then played Risk. It was quite intense. Friday I got up and cleaned allllllll day and got my haircut. That was exhausting. Saturday I got up and cleaned some more because my Nana was coming in to town for the week. That night, Bryan, Chris, my parents, and Nana and I all went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner and it was sooo good. That for sure is my favorite place ever. Sunday was Bryan's homecoming talk and I saw a lot of people that I haven't seen for awhile so that was great. Then there was lots of Sunday naps, which I love, and great dinner. Monday there was the chiropractor/massage which I love. Then the dentist and then pedicures with Bekah. Tuesday I got up and watched one of Melissa's boys and took Mason to his swimming lessons and met Melissa and Blake there and watched Mason and Blake take lessons. They were so cute. Then I went up to Dakota to see some teachers and then picked my brother up at my mom's school. At 9 I went and played volleyball which was great since I won't be able to play for awhile. Today, I had the chance to sleep in but the doctor's office called with a ton of questions so I woke up kinda early. Then watched The Office for awhile, got ready and then went to lunch at Sweet Tomatoes with Nana where we saw the lovely Valerie VanHalen and then we went to Walmart and ran into Sis. Ford. It was great to catch up with her as well. And now, here I am, attempting to catch up on blogging since it has been so long. I am sure that a lot more has happened that I just can't remember right now but oh well. It is just great to be home for the summer. Tomorrow I am having surgery which will be a pain but it will be good to get it over with I suppose. Here are some pictures of the past couple of weeks! Enjoy!!

Packing

More and more packing.

Completely packed car.... with a bike and all!

oh the memories.

Sarah looked like she was about to get lost in the cupboard

The creepy interesting white substance we found while cleaning

Fridge time

It's okay Sar!

Cleaning out the freezer while taking down lights

Oh how I love her

Miss them both! =D

Sleepover time in our room!

Between me and Sarah we had a LOT of stuff

The empty ness was quite erie

Megan was sad because I was about to leave

Love her!

Bear Lake. I want to live here

Wyoming cows

Wyoming nothingness

Wyoming!

huh.... interesting

Don't worry, it's not like it seems. I was definitely on the right side of the road, there was just a truck pulling two other trucks, one of which was going backwards

don't mind the double chin, I was just falling off of Laura's bed trying to read something on her computer

ha, yes, I am that lazy

the little sink that I washed my hair in

Wyoming snow that we woke up to

yah!!!

So excited to be back

Interesting. How can you be at mile 0 and 299 at the same time! ha

So maybe I miss Logan and my amazing roommates a lot, but I am sure glad to finally be home!