Recovery

I had my surgery yesterday. It wasn't too bad, but it hurts like the dickens when I go too long without my meds. When I first woke up in the recovery room I saw the nurse and she had some sprite and a pill in her hand.
"Can you swallow this pill, sweetie?" She asked.
I nodded and I guess a look of confusion crossed my face because she said,
"Are you okay?"
It took at least two minutes for me to say,
"I couldn't remember how to open my mouth."
She smiled and helped me take the pill and wash it down with a little off-brand sprite. Soon after my parents came in and I was brought back to my room. When I got into my bed my knees started twitching like squirrel's tails and I couldn't help laughing. A few minutes later I was awake enough to want food. They brought me a red snow-ball and I ate it taking small bites and when I finished I had that nasty sugary taste in my mouth that lingers after eating red dye. They came in later to take my temperature, blood pressure and to take out my IV tube (they left the needle thing in) and asked if I wanted some graham crackers. I gladly accepted, but they weren't very good. M dad gave me half of his cookie and I munched on that for a bit till I fell asleep. I woke up and slept over and over for a while till about 2pm when the physical therapist came in to take out the rest of my IV and gave me some crutches training. Soon after we left and I spent the rest of the day on the couch in and out of sleep. Last night I slept well and today my friend came and brouht some cookies and get well wishes. =] It was an overall good expeirience and I can hardly wait to be better again.
Well, it's time for more medicine, I'll post again in a few days for an update... maybe...

Ranting and Raving

Its almost like this little black line that blinks on my screen where the word will be is mocking me. ‘Haha, you cant think of anything to write, you, the amazing writer, cant write a little teeny letter for your civics class, hahahahaaa!’ This is really hard and honestly I’d rather be working on something else because everything I write sounds like a scripted robot repeating a pre-recorded message, so here I am, wasting time by ranting and raving about how bad I am at writing letters. -sigh- but what can I do? I suck at this. So I might as well type whatever comes to mind this is the most honest and un-robotic thing I’ve written all day. I found out yesterday that I may be allergic to popcorn, random I know, but what else is there to say? Why is it right when you need your mom, she is busy with the little kids? Every. Time. I needed her help to finish my homework, but every single time I asked her, she would get distracted with one of the little kids while walking across the 15 feet between us and I'd have to wait another ten minutes. So yeah. I have more homework to do, so I'll post more later. Maybe. My surgery is tomorrow so itcouldbe a while, or it could be soon because I wont have very much to do these next couple of days. hmmmm.... idk.

Photo a Day

I've decided to do a photo a day for three months, I might keep going after that, I'm not sure...
but I'm starting today, and here is my photo for today =]

P.S. I might put more than one photo per post, because I promise I will not have time to post daily.

Homework and Surgery

I just finished my 600 word essay on Franklin Roosevelt. It's taken a couple of weeks, but its done and ready forturn in tomorrow. That is pretty much really boring, i know, but hey, its my life! Homework is a regular part of any given teen's life, and i have yet to meet anyone who enjoys homework on any level.

In nine days I'm going to get surgery on my ankle. I might as well explain now... -sigh- here we go!
So when I was 5 years old I started to take dance lessons and Icontinued till I was 11 when I started to have crippling ankle pain and had to stop. I was devastated. I had finally started to get really serious about dance and I was getting better and even had a great part in the recital. My whole life goal was to be a dancer and own a dance school, but now I could never do that. After X-Rays, MRIs, a cast, and lots of other tried and failed solutions, we finally found out exactly what is wrong. I have Osteochondritis Dissecans (os-tee-o-kohn-DRY-tis DIS-uh-kanz) which is a joint condition where a section of bone is missing and the cartilidge around the missing bone is being pushed into the hole with movement, causing intense pain. The cause of this was the repeated trauma of the jumps and such of ballet. I bruised the bone and to reduce the swelling my body automatically took a little bone away, and after repeated bruising and swelling it got to the point where the pain was so bad I could barely get through the first bit of class wihtout having to sit out. So first I was put in a cast. Then they found it was in both ankles, so they put me in two big imobilizing boots. Then we stopped doing anyting for a while and just prayed and hoped it would go away, but it just got worse till finally i could barely make a trip through Walmart without major pain. So backto the doctor we went and finally we hada name and a solution forthe problem. When I go in on February 9th they will put me under general anesthesia and cut a small incision in my ankle. They will insert a tiny camera into the incision and drill a couple of holes into my bone to induce bleeding which will heal the bone. Then after 6 weeks to 3 months of recovery I will go back and have the same surgery on my left ankle.
I'm really excited aboutit all because it will end this misery I've been goingthrough for the past 4 years and finally I will be able to do all the things i missed out on because of my ankles. =]