Wednesday, December 21, 2005
please forgive my grammar this time. i'm only one handed and can't reach some of the keys properly. surgery went alright, the tumor was bigger then the x rays showed so the dr. had to harvest bone from two places, one in my wrist and the other my hip. two weeks later my hand is still bruised, my thumb still looks like the goodyear blimp, and everything smells like stinky cheese but my dr. says everything looks good.
i've spent the last two weeks painting x mas ornaments for gifts as it's the only thing i've learned how to do one handed. it's amazing how much i took for granted until i lost use of one hand, then i really learned to appreciate what i had. the other day i tried opening a can of "easy open" soup and it exploded on me. guess it's only "easy open" if you have two hands. john and i bought eachother a ps2 for x mas (an idea we got from some really good friends). when i want to give john a good laugh, i play. then we count how many ways i can die because i can't use my left hand, or we see how many creative ways i can survive longer.
i was supposed to go back to work last monday but i didn't have enough tylenol 3 to last that long. i knew that my first days back would be tough and that i'd need some then so i stopped taking the tylenol over the weekend. i ended up in so much pain that i couldn't go to work on monday at all. so i got a new prescription yesterday and went back to work. i was so excited to finally get out of the house and start contributing to the family again. but i didn't last an hour before i fainted in front of a customer. guess i pushed myself too fast and ended up doing too much, too soon. so now i'm not working again till after x mas, how depressing.
but even after all that, my life doesn't seem so bad. i have an amazing husband who has done nothing but wait on me hand and foot. he never complains when i ask for his help. an awesome family and great friends. a roof over my head, which is more then a lot of people in this world. and I'm spending a part of x mas with my father which i haven't done in almost 20 years. (this should be really interesting!)
posted by Turnoc's Lady @ 1:55 PM,
1 Comments:
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At 9:52 AM, December 22, 2005,
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Glad to hear you're feeling better!!! Merry Xmas to you!!!!
dictaitor