Wife and Mommy

I am recovering from so many things:  summer traveling, BlogHer’10, seeing many new and old friends while in on my trips, being back home amidst the noise and chaos of three kids…

But first and foremost right now, I am recovering from foot surgery.

Remember how I was rocking the immobilization boot when I went out to the Yahoo! Motherboard Summit?  Yesterday, a ganglion cyst was removed from my right foot.  It’s all happened kind of quickly and it feels a bit surreal.  My foot is now a big fluffy ball of gauze and ace bandages.  When I move about, I have to put on that darn immobilization boot and clumsily maneuver on crutches.

One thing I about the surgery yesterday:  As I was being wheeled to the OR, I said to the nurse, “Oh, I’ve never actually seen the inside of an OR before!”  The very last memory I have is me craning my neck to see through the OR doors.  That’s it.  I cannot remember anything after that, about the room at all.  (I suppose that’s better than Lisa of Workout Mommy‘s experience…she told me during her foot surgery, she woke up and said, “I CAN HEAR YOU!”  Wow.)

I have no recollection of anything after the OR doors…until what felt like two seconds later, I woke in the recovery room because I was cold.  I even mumbled to the  nurse, “Is the surgery finished?  Has it just been a minute or so?”  It was very TV like…as if the scene cut from the OR doors to the recovery room!

So now I am home.  The Husband is being very strict in taking care of me, and yet waiting on me hand and foot (ha).  He is a rock star.  I sleep.  I drink.  I eat.  My foot stays elevated.  Painkiller are taken every four hours on the dot.  I attempt to read books.

Most importantly, I make myself stay away from the computer when I am in the midst of my painkiller high.  Speaking of which, it’s time for another Vicodin.