Happy New Year

Well, the holidays are officially over so now I think it's time for a vacation from the craziness.  Life has been a never-ending whirlwind since surgery--parts I was coherent enough to remember, and some I wish I could have forgotten.  Overall, we have had a lot of quality time with family and I feel the need for a break from the chaos.  The worst part is that I can't really do anything, so my version of a break will be more of the same thing--sitting on my butt, elevating my foot, and just working on healing.  Yippee.  

Some days my foot feels really good and I don't have much pain, but at other times it's as bad as it was immediately after the surgery.  I guess I haven't been doing my proper elevating to help reduce all of the swelling, but I do my best.  I hope the numbness in my toes goes away soon.  Right now it feels like someone shot up my pinky toe and the one next to it with novocaine which is wearing off and giving me that painful pins and needles feeling.   That's something I could really live without.  My cast is already loose and I can only imagine how much worse that is going to get.  I'm supposed to be in this pink one for 2 weeks, but doubt I'll make it that long.

Aaron is sick with some strange upper respiratory thing and that sucks because I'm supposed to go get a facial tomorrow and he's supposed to drive me because I am NOT supposed to drive yet unless I have no other choice.  So, by scheduling him for a massage I guaranteed my own transportation as a trip the spa would not fall under my doctor's guidelines of a situation where I "have to" drive.   But, now that he's so sick he may want to cancel his appointment which means there goes mine too :(    I hope he feels better soon because it's hard to be so dependent on someone who feels like hell...I don't like to make it worse.

I hope all had a very Happy New Year and a good start to 2009. I know my household is hoping 2009 will be much better health-wise than 2008!