Friday, February 16, 2007

The Doc's Verdict


Well, from the picture you might have guessed it--the doc has put me on bedrest for 2 weeks with my ankle. Seems that my ankle has become infected where I had the surgery. That is why it has been swelling and why the skin is abnormally red around the incision. Well, that's just great huh?! The doctor said I had been on it entirely too much and I told him that at work they wouldn't let me really prop it up, plus he told me that after a weekend of not being on it at all it would be fine and that I could go back to work. Guess I should've asked for the week after the surgery off but I was going on what he said. I didn't realize that it was excruciatingly painful to walk on it cause it was infected, I just figured it was from it healing. So, anyway, the stitches are out and I am out of work for 2 weeks. I am on 2000 mg of amoxicillin a day plus 10 mg of percocet for the pain. I just wish that my 3 yr old understood that mommy can't get up when he wants me to right now but of course he doesn't cause he is only 3. So, I stay off of it while he is at daycare and then when he gets home I just grin and bear it. :) Guess I will be able to catch up on the tivo'd stuff..lol.

In the midst of all of this I have managed to piss off the Vice President of the Special Loans dept. She sent me an email wanting to know why I changed something on an account and she sent the email while I was out. So I didn't answer her, I just waited till my boss got back into town to see what I should do. I told her yesterday what happened and she informed me to reply back and let her know that I was having it handled since I was on LOA. So I did and not 2 seconds later another email came to me from the VP and she says ( in a really pissed off tone) that if I was on LOA then I should have my out of office message on and have all emails referred to my manager and I shouldn't be checking and handling emails from home. Nothing in the way of "oh I hope you feel better or sorry to hear your ankle is worse than before" so yeah lover her too..lol. WTF!!! whatever. I did have the out of office thing on and I did what I was told to do by my manager. I called my manager to let her know that the VP was pissed at me and she said yeah I shouldn't be checking them while out on LOA. Okay whatever, you just told me to do it and now I shouldn't? Anyway, so I should have more time these next two weeks to post and to check on everyone else's posts :)

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Hope everyone had a wonderful V-Day!! Mine was alright I guess. This is the 3rd day in a row that I am having to sit at home. My ankle started swelling really badly at work the other day and I got sent home. So i called the doctor to see if he could see me any sooner than Thursday and he couldn't but ordered me to stay off my foot till he could see me. I am worried about what he's going to say tomorrow. It just worries me that I have excessive swelling in my ankle and foot that I just had surgery on and that the side of my ankle keeps burning. But I will just have to have faith that everything will be all right. Sorry I haven't posted since before my surgery I just haven't had the time. The surgery actually went well, especially when I got my "happy juice" right before the "gurney journey" into the OR :) It was like liquid Valium. The strongest thing I have ever had is Morphine and that was with a C-Section. Anyway, that was some good stuff. Also wanted to thank everyone for their thoughts before the operation. It meant alot!!!!!!!! I will keep everyone posted on what the doc has to say tomorrow.