MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! Be safe... God bless

Wyatt's 2nd birthday

While in the hospital, I missed several November events... my nephew, Wyatt's puppy themed 2nd birthday being one of them... here are a few pics my husband took for me...

They even had a big bouncy house and dangit, I had ti miss it!!!!!!!

drs drs everywhere

This is my last week of recovery... I have been home for a week. I go back to work next week, as far as I know. This week is a week of lots of drs appointments. I go to my cardiologist this afternoon... gastroenterologist who took care of me in the hospital & my surgeon tomorrow and my PCP Thursday.

Hopefully they will say everything's going well and there are no set backs. While I like being home and recovering, I am not getting paid while I have been out, so I really, desperately need to get back to work!!

I'm really nervous to go back. Its been a month... but hopefully it will be a smooth transition back.

Time just ticks away...

I am writing this blog from my hospital bed. I have been here since last Sunday. My surgery was Friday. Of course it was not routine, because lets just be honest, nothing ever goes routine for me medically.

Dr. Thomas said he removed around 2,000 gallstones. He had to cut me open to get to them all. He also had to take out part of my liver. So this has slowed the healing process WAY down.

Right now I am basically in constant pain. Right after surgery I had the handy little pain pump that jacked me up on the Diloded (?) whenever I needed it. But alas, they took my little friend away a few days ago... I know that's a good thing, I do not want to get addicted... BUT in the mean time, I hurt. ALL the time. The Lortab and Demerol dull the pain, but getting up, moving around is still really painful. Just going to the bathroom is an ordeal because I have these drain thingys that are sewn in to me. FUN TIMES!

They transfused 2 units of blood the other night... that is never a fun ordeal... PLUS were feeding me Lasix to keep swelling down, so I was hooked up to all these tubes and IVs and having to get up and pee like every 20 minutes. That was not a good night my friends haha

But I know it will slowly get better. I took a shower by myself for the first time Friday. Moving around is slow going, but getting easier. I even took a walk down the hall to the nurses station and back, with some assistance from the hubby.

So I need to learn patience right now. I need to let all of my drs and nurses help me and not be afraid of sounding like a whiny baby.

OH BROTHER, here we go again!

2007 - well we all know about 2007. Long hospital stint right before my wedding. Open Heart Surgery, etc etc

2008 - summer time, I'm bleeding to death and have to go in AGAIN for several blood transfusions and a DNC...

2009 - just got the call that they found a BUNCH of gallstones in my gallbladder and its going to have to come out. problem is, I am on Coumadin because of my mechanical mitral valve, so any normally, easy procedure is trickier with Couamdin patients.

So much for my hope of 2009 being hospital free!

The Big 30!

I am planning a birthday party for my husbands 30th birthday... and I have absolutely no creative ideas.

HELP!!!! So far I have a list of people I want to invite and I cant decide if I want to have it here or not, because our house is kind of small and there isn't much seating... that's as far as I have gotten...

Things that make you go hmmm.....?

So Thursday I took my wedding ring in to Helzberg to be inspected and cleaned. While in the little cleaner machine thingy... one of my itty bitty diamonds that covere one of the bands fell out! The little guy just happened to get it stuck to his finger while emptying the tray out to look for it! WHAT LUCK!

Since the Lubbock store does not have a way to repair anything locally, they must send things off to one of the DFW locations. So, I do not have my ring for about a week...

What surprised me is how much more confident my wedding ring makes me. Not confident, like... I'm hot stuff man, I'm MARRIED - hehe... but confident like, I can go to the store in my sweats and crocs and not think twice about it. Weird, I know. But since I haven't had it, all of the sudden, I'm like "I cant go to fill Sally up in what I'm wearing?!"

So what is it about that little band of gold that affects me in such a way? Its not like I am trying to land someone whilst out shopping, just because I have no ring on my finger... its not like I'm searching for the hot little college boys. So what is it? I'm sure there's some weird, psychological thing about it... or maybe I am just crazy. A ring doesn't make you married. So all you psychology people, tell me what you think. Has this happened to you?