Warrior Mode Activated

  Is it Tuesday yet? I am still shocked at how fast last week went, but then, I was high on pain meds most of the week. This week is simply crawling. Monday was awful due to me forgetting to take my meds on time but I'm beginning to feel a little better each day, and happily no longer taking the strong pain meds but relying on my usual meds plus some Tylenol. I am still quite uncomfortable, mainly with the cast. It is driving me crazy and oh joy, on Tuesday I get another one. I hope to try and convince them to just put me straight into the boot instead. I am so claustrophobic, and I realize it may seem silly to say a cast triggers me, but it does! It's like the panic of having your limb caught in something you cannot escape from. *sigh* I didn't realize it would affect me this way. I've had a cast on both my arm and my leg when I was a teenager and although it was uncomfortable, it didn't make me want to scream and rip it off, LOL! I have had to do some deep breathi...

  Well, here I am after yet another surgery...my fourth in 2 and a half year's time. I am impatiently waiting for the pain to subside enough to be able to concentrate on the healing part. I'm not gonna lie...this really, really hurts.  For those of you who don't know, I had ligament reconstruction in my right ankle. After literally 40 years of spraining my ankle over and over again, crutches, braces, casts, cortisone shots, my ankle was simply done. It got to the point that I was injuring my left "good" ankle trying to make up for the weak right one. So, surgery was my only option.  I arrived at NHRMC at 5:15am to check-in and get ready for the surgery. It took them nearly an hour just to get checked in and in my room. After getting me all ready, the anesthesiologist came in to talk with me. I am apparently labeled as "difficult to intubate" and he looked worried. This did not boost my confidence, to say the least. He went back and forth between, "m...