I'm back ...

I've been a little bit scarce over here the past couple of weeks. On the 7th of September I had surgery ~ a  left lumbar sympathectomy.. This is ultimately supposed to take away a majority of the pain in my foot so that I can wear a regular shoe again, sleep in my bed again, and basically have my life back again. Since I injured it last October, I can't even let the weight of my blanket rest on that foot without having terrible pain. Well, I honestly didn't know if it was going to be a laparoscopic surgery or not {meaning there would only be a couple of little slits cut into my back} but I certainly didn't anticipate waking up with an incision that ran from my left side all the way over to my belly button! And in addition to the pain that I'm having from the incision and the work that he did, I'm dealing with a lot of hip and back pain on the left side, which is just as bad as the surgical pain itself! Yesterday the two pains were working against each other and I couldn't get comfortable at all because if I tried to move my leg one direction the hip pain was horrendous and if I moved it another way my left side {where he did the actual surgery} hurt too much. I was in a no-win situation. The doctor sent me home on my regular home meds, which would normally be fine. However, right at the moment I can't function on my home meds. I already have back pain and other chronic pain that I take a low-dose pain med for. When I got home, my "normal" pain said "Yeah!! We get our meds back!" and it had absolutely no intention of sharing them with any new pain. So when I needed something for the "new" pain, my "old" pain was hogging it all. By about 10:00 that night I was miserable! Luckily Mom had some Tylenol in her purse. The next morning Jon brought some Aleve over and Mom bought me some Tylenol and I've been using Tylenol to supplement my pain meds ever since. It's not the ideal situation, but it's better than nothing. We'll see what happens when I go in for my follow-up appointment on Monday. 


I did make it out of the house this morning for the 1st day of release time. Let's just say, I think it's going to be a very interesting year. By the time I got home, however, I was wiped out. It's been a long day! Monday is going to be a long day!

So if I'm a little bit scarce over here for a while, you now know the rest of the story .....  =)