Hullabaloo

I went back and saw the doctor today about my shoulder. I don't have to go to physical therapy anymore since my range of motion is almost back to normal. I got another cortisone injection. He said if I have any more problems with it in the next month then he wants to do surgery. Hopefully it will behave.

While I was there I showed him a bump that I noticed about a month ago in my left ring finger. He said it was a cyst and drained it. That hurt like a mother. He put three different needles in, which was quite unpleasant. It's all bruised up and I can't straighten my finger. He said that sometimes they come back. If it does and it's still bothering me than he can take it out. Which would involve surgery again. He said if I had to have surgery on my shoulder he could do my hand at the same time.

I feel like I'm falling apart. I'm a little young for all this hullabaloo don't you think!?

Just the two of us.

We've spent the last five days with out the kids. Justin's parents were nice enough to take them for us, so that we could have some time alone for our anniversary. We stayed one night at the Plaza in Salt Lake, which was really nice. We've had fun going to the movies, shopping, eating, and just being childless. It's been nice to get a little break, but it's also nice to have the kids home again.

Time flies

It's hard for me to believe that it will be nine years since we've been together and seven that we've been married, on Sunday. Sometimes it seems like it's been forever and other times it seems like we're just barely starting out. I'm so glad that I get to be married to my best friend and that he makes everything seem a little bit better.

I love you babe!

I'll never shovel the driveway.

I went and saw the doctor about my shoulder yesterday. He said I have impingement syndrome and adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder). I have a hooked acromion which reduces space and irritates the bursa, and when the bursa or tendons become swollen it causes impingement. It reduces space between the bursa and the acromin, squeezing the soft tissues painfully against the bone. If it stays this way it can tear the rotator cuff.
He gave me a cortisone shot and I have to go to physical therapy. In two weeks I have to go back if it's not feeling better. Then he'll do another cortisone shot. If in two more weeks it still isn't better than he is going to do surgery on it. I am really hoping that it is better by then. I really don't want to have surgery. I have seen several people I know go through shoulder surgery and it does not look fun at all.
I am happy that I don't have to wear the sling anymore. Life is much more difficult when you only have one arm. I wore a hat almost every day for two weeks because I couldn't do my hair.
I'll keep you posted!

Photos

In October we had some pictures done. I told my Mom I would put some on here so that she could see them. I guess the rest of you can look too.

Santa Claus is coming to town

On the 22nd we had Santa come to our house. Everyone got to have their picture taken with Santa except me (I was upstairs throwing up). I heard them singing songs and it sounded like they were having a good time. I went downstairs for a few minutes but got sick and had to go back upstairs. Alton was not to thrilled with him as you can see.






Everyone got the stomach bug except Justin and Orin and thankfully it was out of the house before Christmas day actually came. I spent all day Tuesday in bed sleeping, which made things kind of hard since I had so much to do before Christmas. It didn't help that I hurt my shoulder two weeks ago shoveling the driveway and have to wear a sling and not use my arm. Poor Justin had to do most of everything that I couldn't do with one arm. Which really set him behind. He ended up staying up until 5 am on Christmas Eve (so actually Christmas morning) so that he could get all of the things done that he needed to. He has had to do a lot more in the last week and he hasn't complained at all. What a trooper! Teya has also been a huge help. I'm wondering how I'll get along once she goes back to school.

We had a great Christmas and I hope you all did too!

Shiner

On Saturday morning Teya hit the side of her head on her bed really hard. I was in the process of getting ready for Eadie's party which was to start in less than an hour. I heard screaming upstairs, followed by Justin and an almost hysterical Teya showing up in the kitchen to get ice. It swelled up so fast and it was huge. The swelling went down by the next day but her head is blue and purple from her hair line to the middle of her eye and from the middle of her forehead to just below her eye. The pictures don't show how bad it really is.
So she went to school today with a black eye. She was really worried that people were going to make fun of her. They didn't and her teacher was really nice about it and felt so bad for her. Poor kid!