Valaine's Blogs: Minds Gone Blank

These last two weeks seem to have gone by so fast, yet so slow. I’ve been wanting to write a post multiple times, but every time I would go to write, either my mind would go blank or it would be all over the place. I’m finally taking the time to write this, which means my minds not drawing a blank, but my thoughts definitely won’t be as organized as they usually are (you can thank the painkillers for that :P).

The surgery to fix my femur went great. The actual surgery took about 3 hours and I was in the hospital from Monday morning to Wednesday evening. My orthopedic surgeon was originally going to release me on Tuesday, but I requested to stay until my nerve block wore off (so I knew I could get the pain under control) and he was perfectly fine with that. I was super grateful he was okay with that because the nerve block wore off that second night and that’s when the pain really hit. I'm also very grateful my mom spent the night at the hospital with me both nights so I didn’t have to be all alone because, let’s face it, who would want to spend the night alone and in pain at the hospital? Definitely not me!

As the doctors and nurses were prepping me for surgery, one of the things I thought about was how crazy it is that this is so normal to me. When I had my first knee surgery, I remember how uncomfortable I felt with the doctors and nurses touching me, even for the little things like taking my blood pressure or listening to my heart, and how terrified I was to get an IV. Having my blood pressure checked and my heart listened to doesn’t even faze me anymore, and the IV really isn’t a big deal. Having all these knee surgeries has kind of forced me to adjust to those things, and to overcome those fears.

Now the real recovery begins! I have my first physical therapy appointment tomorrow and one final for school on Tuesday, which will be my last test for this semester :) This semester hasn’t gone how I’ve expected it to, but I’m thankful to be ending it with a few more credits than I went into it with. I also have some fun ideas on ways to make a little bit of an income over the summer while I recover and I’ll tell you all about them in my next post.

Just so you all know, for the next few weeks I’m going to be keeping my posts pretty short, but I’ll try to include all the important stuff! Hope you all have a good week! Make it count!

Also, here are some random pictures I took while I was bored at the hospital. Nothing very entertaining, just kind of shows what my room looked like:

In front of me...

To my right,,,

They ended up taking the fall risk bracelet off me and unlocking the bed after they saw how well I did on the crutches,,, Been on them to long I guess...