So close!

In 5 days I will have my cast removed FOREVER!!!!  I am ready!  I thought this week back at work would make me feel better because I would get out of the house.  Honestly, it was nice to get out everyday, ALL day, but it was hard at the same time.  Getting ready to go into work in the morning with a cast and crutches is difficult.  Somedays I just felt I looked like a slob.  Its hard to do your hair, find something to wear, and get ready for the day hopping on one leg and holding onto crutches.  But I am almost there.

My leg is ready to be free.  I haven't been taking much Tylenol at all (I am sure my liver is enjoying that!).  My cast is getting looser and I am wiggling my foot around more and more.  The other day on my way into work it was raining out.  They just waxed the floors in the hall outside of my office.  When I came around the corner, my crutch slipped and I started to fall.  It was in slow motion, I was thinking... I could fall and look like a fool and I haven't even made it to my office yet, or I can catch myself with the bad leg.  So I caught myself with my bad leg.  I just was standing there, my one crutch on my right side doing nothing, the other on the floor.  I kind of feel against the wall too and have a huge bruise on my arm.  BUT, it didn't hurt!  Then I kept going thinking I slipped in a puddle so I just kept going, and slipped again and had to catch myself with my bad leg for the second time in under 30 seconds.  It was the combination of bottoms of the crutches being wet and the shiny waxed floors.  But it was fine and my leg didn't hurt.

I have even noticed when I sleep, I have been sleeping normal again.  Up until the past week, I have been sleeping on my back with my leg elevated on the special pillow.  Now I sleep on my stomach and side, and it almost feels like normal.  When my incision hits the side of the cast it isn't tender or sore.  One gross thing though is I can tell there is a lot of dead skin on the bottom of my foot.  That is going to be gross when the cast comes off.  The hairy leg is going to be cute too.  8 weeks without being shaved!

This weekend I am taking it easy.  My first week back at work really tired me out.  In the end it was good to be back.  I only had one minor breakdown :).  When I work, I crave Diet Coke.  I need it or some form of caffeine for the second have of the day.  Luckily we have a coke machine right next to the elevator.  Well on my second day back, the coke machine disappeared!  They must have taken it out for repair or something.  So I was really bummed about that.  Then on Friday, I was running late and looking for what to pack for lunch.  All we had was PB&J, which I normally really like, but after 5 days in a row it gets old.  So while my husband was driving me into work, I had a minor breakdown and was crying because I can't make it over to where the Food Market is on campus, and they took the coke machine away, and I am having PB&J for the 5th day in a row and have no form of caffeine to get me to the end of the day.  He ran out and got me a wonderful sandwich and 2 Diet Cokes, what a great guy!  Hopefully that was the last breakdown I have due to this surgery!