Life on the Other Side!!!

Hello beautiful people! Guess who's home!!!! Huzzah!!!! Yup that's right, I'm backkkk :) I am just grateful to be alive and home and relatively pain free (thanks to drugs!) my leg is sore, but I'm able to sleep and go in and out which is good :) plus I am now in my comfy bed among my family rather than being in a hospital with strangers! So life has become very very good!

The good news is I've been cleared to put weight on my heel, making getting around a LOT more easy. Plus it means I am not restricted to just the bedroom after all, making quality of life a LOT more pleasant for me :)

So, the whole experience....well I ended up having to wait ages before going in for surgery, but I did everything I possibly could to keep calm. They got a canula in my arm straight away, which alleviated a little bit of tension They did a nerve block, so for the first 18 hours my leg was completely numb I couldn't feel anything. Once the block wore off it got painful! I've been so blessed with several visitors in hospital, Ros and Cheryl and Andree and Robyn all paying me a visit, and tonnes of flex messages flying around :) Everyone's been so kind and loving, I really felt like everyone was looking out for me and wishing me the best which was super sweet :) Gizmo and Max are happy to have me home, although Gizmo is very unhappy that he is not allowed in the bedroom as Brad's afraid he'll jump up on me so there's a gate Brad's constructed and poor Gizmo can see me but he can't come in. It's driving him a little bit insane LOL

The hospital was very good, the staff were mainly very nice except for the last nurse I had who wasn't very nice. Everyone else was amazing, the nurses were very kind and the food was great! I am shocked at how I've been able to bounce back and I'm feeling pretty good, I get drowsy every once in a while and the medication is keeping the pain at bay which is a relief. This whole thing is not going to be quite as bad as I originally thought and I feel like a massive weight is off my shoulders.

For anyone who thought I was being melodramatic about the whole needle thing, here is the results of the anethitists efforts AFTER I fell asleep to get another line into me......

Yup, I'm officially black and blue on both arms!! he was able to get another line in on my wrist, and that was it, he couldn't even get blood out of me! 

Well, now that I'm home, I'm going to put my head back and see if I can get a bit of shut eye, I'm a bit tired. To sign off, here's my all time favourite view at the moment.......my own back yard :) :) 

Until next time :)