The best word I can think of to
describe the past few weeks is interesting. They’ve had a lot of lows in them,
but right now I’m feeling extremely blessed.
My leg has been healing great so far! I had my first
post-op about two weeks ago to get the staples out and get some x-rays done and
everything went great at it. They expected me to be able to get about 60
degrees range of motion in my knee and I was able to get to 90 degrees with
ease, so they had me hold of physical therapy till the four week mark. At the
four week mark I was able to get back on the bike (which was awesome!) and I was
able to fully pedal around on my first try! I think that’s one of the pluses of
going through this once before, my body knows what it needs to do to get back
to where it needs to be. My next post-op appointment isn’t until the 23rd,
at which point I will be 7 weeks & 1 day post-surgery, so I’m hoping the
doc will say that I can slowly start putting weigh on it once I hit the 8 week
mark, but I guess we shall see!
If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, you
probably already know I had a brain MRI this week, but I never posted the
results I got yesterday from it. I guess I should probably tell you the back story
I why I had it done first thought huh? Lol. So the reason the doctor suggested I
have it done is because I’ve been having really intense headaches since my
surgery. They aren’t too bad sometimes but haven’t really ever fully gone away.
After about a full week of experiencing a pretty intense one I decided to see a
doctor about it and he suggested that I have it done just to make sure that
nothing abnormal was going on. He thought that it might just be an adverse
reaction to the anesthesia, but it was better to be safe than sorry. Thankfully
the results came back completely normal, which he said he rarely sees
completely normal brain MRI results, so that’s awesome, but he’s still not sure
what’s causing the headaches. He thinks it may be a sinus infection, or something
along those lines, from being intubated for 3ish hours, so he gave me Flonase
and some antibiotics and told me to see if they help. Now it’s just a waiting
game to see they go away with time, which if it’s from the anesthesia, they
well.
One of the big things I was waiting on in order to
really finalize my plans for this fall will be coming through within the next
two weeks, which I’m stoked about! I’ve been waiting on it for about 6 months,
so I feel really blessed that it’s coming when it is. I couldn’t have asked for
a better time for it to come! Now it’s time for me to start finalizing my plans.
:) I’ll tell you all the plans once August gets a little closer, and once things
are a little more set in stone, but I’ll give you a little hint now: it has
something to do with moving out of Twin :D I’ve also decided to sign up for
online classed for the fall semester at CSI, now I just have to decide what classes’
lol.
I guess, simply put, I am feeling very blessed at the
moment! I feel like I’m catching a glimpse of the rainbow at the end of the
storm! :) (I know…very cheesy…but who can blame me :P)
