It is DONE!

The surgery is over, and it went well. They did not have to do a big cut, the whole cyst is out, I have my left ovary, and I am not in too much pain. It has been a full week now since the surgery and I am just feeling like myself again. I think basically surgery is a ton of trauma to your body and the pain is for me just becoming really okay and manageable. I have been trying to get off the pain killers and I thought yesterday would be my first drug free day, but by the end of last night I was in a lot of pain, so today I am not setting my self up to fail, but I really just want to rely on Motrin. I have been mainly sitting in an overstuffed chair or lying down in bed or on the couch. Not a bad life really - just not for me. Especially when watching all the design t.v. shows - I just want to get up and move around furniture, paint something, or sew something.

My work friends sent me this, which was so nice, thoughtful and delicious:


I am sure they are wanting me to come on back. I have another 2 weeks of medical leave and I think I will take all of it. Just really to take it easy and be careful with my self. Also I have yet to accomplish the task of leaving the house, which is on the table for tomorrow. I want to feel pretty good before I head back to work where I will be running from court to court and on my feet almost all day.


This is what the physical therapist put on H's finger/hand. She has not received very much therapy per se, i.e. none, and we are hoping the next visit she actually learns to move her finger, because she does not have a lot of mobility at this point:





And this is the most updated finger picture - still not pretty but healing!

So Much for a Quick Update

I am sorry it has been so long with no update about H.'s finger. The surgery itself went well. She was supposed to be in "Twilight" but was expressing during the surgery that she was in pain so they put her under general anesthesia. Two pins and some cadaver bone later she has been doing pretty well the last 2 weeks. She has been experiencing a good amount of pain, and she has had to rely on pain medication which she does not like. Most of the options are not great, with Vicodin being the biggest loser.
Yesterday H.'s cast came off. Sadly we did not get pictures of her in it. But we did get a picture this morning of her finger. It is not pretty folks, not pretty... but the Dr. said he thought that it was healing, and he was happy she had feeling in the tip of her finger. I am going to post it in a different post with a password, in case you don't want to see at all, or at this time. (*** Update I can't do a password protect on one post in Blogger - I am very disappointed about that - And just spent the last couple of minutes looking at other hosts - there maybe a blog move in our future. For now, H.s finger is at the bottom of this post. You are warned.) I am very sensitive to injuries to the hands (those of you who know me well, know that i am against all torture, but I really hate it on t.v. when someones hands are being tortured.... ughhh...)
More posts to come soon I promise. For real. I will be home for the next 3 weeks because of my surgery on thursday and I honestly can't imagine how I am going to fill my time. Ellen is only on t.v. for one hour. That leaves 9 other hours without company save our dear kitties.
xo
L.

A New Year (whats a couple surgeries among friends)

We had a hard time gearing up and celebrating New Years this year. It is hard with our surgeries to feel like this year is getting off to a good start. It is actually more a bit bumpy. On Monday we learned that H. is going to have surgery on Weds(today) in the afternoon. We sat at 6:30 on New Years eve completely unexcited for at least the next month, and unable to see what else the world held for us in 2008. Then with a stroke of genius H. said, well you will most likely get pregnant in 2008 and we might even have our baby - now that was something we could celebrate. We from that moment on had a wonderful celebration. We went to K.K. and K.S's house, drank a good amount of champagne and then went up to prospect park to watch the fireworks. It was a good show, and there was a great James Brown cover. It felt like a celebration. Yesterday we rang in the New Year with brunch with our dear friends P.L and M.B (and M.B.'s sister and partner). It was fun to talk about what the year holds for them as they are getting married and we could not be happier for them. We also went grocery shopping and went home with all our goods. I proceeded to cook up a storm. We now have Potato leek soup, roasted chicken and risotto, and homemade cinnamon ice cream for H. to eat after her surgery today. Yes. I was trying to comfort via food.
It this moment I am hopeful that the surgery will be very successful, and actually relieve some pain for H. She has been so uncomfortable. I will post an update soon.