Called to Serve

Recovery from Surgery has been an interesting experience. Everyone has been serving me catering to my every need. Water, ice, pillows, meals, art supplies, lap top, the list goes on. Not to mention watching tootsie. My parents needed to go back to Utah for work. I could have stayed home in Denver with help from the Relief Society. To me- it sounded like surviving or getting pampered, so I went to Utah with them. Plus, I was able to go to Treygan's Baptism talk about perfect timing. Jon was also working in Utah for a few days Yay! Then he took off to Arizona. I was pretty jealous when he went to the Easter Pageant in Mesa, I think I was more excited than he was!

Not being able to do things for myself has been weird, but how can I complain when I got a long break from diaper duty! It's actually been kinda nice to feel such a dramatic slow down. I am always go go go trying to catch up with my own mind and all I want to accomplish. Then suddenly I am just staring out a window, pondering many thoughts that perhaps wouldn't have had a glance before. Funny that it takes a surgery in order to get me to slow down. Kind of an eye opener hu? One thing is for sure, this experience has made me so grateful for my health. Just the ability to walk run jump & dance is such a treasure. How wonderful to know I will be doing just that in practically no time. I am thankful to be so very blessed!

My doctor was funny when I went in for my 1 week check up I asked if I should get some crutches. He said I was making "too big a deal of this!" I'm like hey if less swelling = less pain & faster healing then I'm all for it. So as soon as Renee & Alan offered to lend me their crutches I was all over it!
When I went in to get my stitches out and told him it was hurting more than usual. . . he said "It's cause your limping on it, you can walk on it more than that." I guess I'm just a big baby. That's okay I still figure it's going to be better for my foot in the long run.
I think all this time I should have been telling people I'm going into foot modeling just to see how they respond.

ANYWAY, I'm going on and on about me when my poor hubby has been in crippling pain. He has had this knot in his back we can't seem to get rid of. It might be a pinched nerve. It's been bothering him for several weeks now, but it just keeps getting worse and worse. So he finally went to the Doctor and got some muscle relaxers and pain meds. We're putting warm pads on it. To top that all off, Breanna has a cold now. So we're all quite a sight over here. Trying to take care of each other, but as you can imagine it is not so easy in our currant state.
The house is a total mess, but it's just gonna have to stay that way for a while. Sometimes you just have to let it go.