The weekend.....

Oh wow, where do I start?!! This has actually been a great weekend!

I do feel as though I need to brag on my husband a little bit!! So this post will be mostly my bragging, lol.

Yesterday (Saturday), Tim took me out of the house for a little bit. He loaded up the wheelchair, and of course the walker too! We had a nice family day out! Tiring, but nice.

We went to Goodwill first, and I got me 2 new dresses for church! One I only paid $4.00 for, and the other one was $8.00! So I did good, I thought! LOL. I never buy anything for me, so I was ok with only $12!

After Goodwill, we went to a few yard sales. That was a dry run! We didn't find anything! So we headed on to my moms! Tim worked on my uncle's truck and I visited with my mom for awhile. That was nice!! I always enjoy seeing my mom!

We got home kind of late and I crashed lol. It was tiring!

Today, we went to church. It was so nice being there this morning! Everyone couldn't believe how good I looked and everyone commented on me. That made me feel loved lol.

Now is the shocker! In the 16 years we have been together...Tim has NEVER washed a dish!!! And he has cooked maybe 10 times if even that! Well when we got home from church, Tim is in the kitchen washing dishes AND cooking!! I can't believe it. This is a day to go into the history books lol!!!!

He has been so awesome this past week! I can't believe how well he has taken care of me! I knew he loved me, but I guess I didn't realize how much. Now I know! He has waited on me (which is usually the other way around), helped me bathe, made sure I have anything I need or want, and now doing dishes and cooking!! He is going back to work tomorrow, and I am really sad about that! But good thing is, he is taking off of work Wednesday to take me to the dr, and then he will be off for the 4th! YAY!

Told ya I was gonna brag on him!!

I better go for now, I think lunch is almost done. Then I will have about an hour or so to rest before church tonight!

Bored

Well I thought I would blog some this morning. Since I am so bored and tired of sitting in bed lol.
I need to update about the rest of the week anyway! Let's see, where did I leave off? Oh yea, Monday afternoon.
So Monday night my best friend (what would I do without her?!) brought us supper! It was so sweet! She brought us lasagna, salad, garlic bread and me some Mt. Dews! She knows how I like my Mt. Dews! LOL. Supper was so good! I haven't had lasagna in a while, so it was nice!!
Tuesday, was the same ole same ole. We were expecting a visitor though, Dan from the prosthetic place was coming to change my dressing. When he didn't come by 11:30 a.m., Tim decided he was going to try and change it for me, bless his heart! He did try, but the bandages were sticking to my stitches so I asked him to stop. That afternoon, instead of Dan coming, Jason came. It did hurt when he changed them, but I knew it had to be done. Now it won't have to be done again until next Tuesday.
That evening Sis Pat and Brother Wayne came from church and brought us some chicken n dumplin's (Sis Pats dumplin's are wonderful), and they brought cornbread and peach cobbler. It was so nice of them!!
Wednesday, nothing special! Again, just sitting around. Tim's cousin and aunt came to see us though, which was nice. Molly just loves Shelia (Tim's cousin), and Shelia offered to let Molly come stay with her for a few days. I agreed, so that Molly wouldn't have to be bored here! But I sure have missed her!!!
Thursday, yesterday, noone came all day! So I didn't even go in the living room until last night. My mom came and it was nice. I always love to see her! She brought us supper! And some extra stuff as well. Yummy fried chicken, mashed taters, baked beans, and of course Mt. Dew!!! Yummm! She stayed for a little while and had to leave to go home. I hated to see her go.
Today, well I am just sitting here now. It is almost 11 a.m. and I am waiting on Tim to get home with Molly. I miss her so much!!! Jack is in the living room playing with his PSP, and Harley is with Tim.-I created a new group called Tennessee Amputees. When I searched Yahoo Groups for an amputee group, I found tons, but none local. So I decided to create one. It is not only for amputees but also for their friends/family members.
Tomorrow, I am hoping to get out of the house. Even if it is to just go to the store. I have been cooped up for a week!! LOL.
Well I guess I will close this now. I don't know how long my entries are suppose to be, but I don't want them to be so long that it will seem boring. Which right now, everything about me is pretty boring lol.

Post Op

Monday June 23, 2008

It has now been 4 days since I had my surgery! I went into Vanderbilt on June 19th to have my leg amputated. I was so scared when we got there. We wasn't sitting out in the waiting room long before they called me back to the "holding room". That is where they got my iv started, and did a nerve block. Wow, did that nerve block hurt!! But once it kicked in, my whole leg from my thigh down was completely numb!
While I was in the holding room, everyone came back there to see me before I was wheeled to surgery. Barbara, Ike, Sandra, Jackii, Shirley, Andrew, Kay Kay, Dee Dee, Brother Jack, Sister June, April and of course mama and Tim was there to see me. I felt so loved!

When they took me to the OR, I really don't remember much! I remember them telling me they were putting oxygen on me, but that's all I remember lol. When I woke up in recovery, I really didn't know what to expect. I raised up, looked down at my leg and said "ok" then I laid back down and went back to sleep. It wasn't as bad as I thought.

When they took me from recovery, it was so sweet! Tim came up beside me, kissed me and handed me a vase with 2 roses in it! I was so happy to see him!

They got me to my room, but I don't really remember much about that lol. I know that Shirley, Jackii, Andrew, Kay Kay, Dee Dee, Donna Boggs, mama and Tim were there. But I don't remember when everyone left!

I woke up around 1:30 a.m. And I was so hungry! I asked the nurse for something to eat and she brought me a ham sandwich. And Tim had me a Mt.Dew waiting on me! Yay! He knows how I like my MT. Dews! After I ate, I went back to sleep.

Friday morning I woke up pretty early! I was ready to get up! Physical therapy came in and got me up on the walker. I was kind of scared to get up at first, but it was easier than I thought. Everyone was impressed at how well I did. The therapists kept telling me to slow down. If it has of been on crutches, I would have been able to go even faster, lol. I am a pro at them! I was so excited though to be up out of the bed and the first thing I did was went to the bathroom lol. I was so tired of having to use a bedpan!!! For some reason, I kept calling it a dustpan lol.

Donna came to visit and it was so nice to see her! She is such an inspiration to me. When she was 20, she was in a car accident and lost both of her legs. But she gets around so well, I would have never known that she is a double amputee!

Saturday, the Dr came in and said I was free to go home! Yay! I just had to wait on the physical therapists, so they could make sure I could make it up steps, and I had to wait on Dan, the orthopedic/prosthetic guy! Once all that was done, I was able to leave. But first, Dan came in and changed my dressing. I was a little scared to look, but I did. And it didn't look anywhere as bad as I thought it would!!

Once we got home, everyone here took such good care of me! The hour ride home did exhaust me though, so I had to take some medicine and go to bed!

Sunday, my mom and my aunt came over to clean for me! It was nice, but I felt bad just laying on the couch and not doing anything!

Today, I have been just lazing around! Julie is bringing supper over for us tonight. She is so sweet to do that!!!- Well it is now after supper...she brought me a nice salad, a lasagna and garlic bread. Oh and bless her heart, she even brought me some Mt. Dew!! So sweet!!!

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