recovery.

Hey bloggers. I figured while i am laying here i would update all of you guys on the surgery and the recovery beings that i am a total slacker and never even let you guys know what is going on and what not with the whole situation. so here it is:

SURGERY:

so i went in for surgery march 1st 2011. As crazy as it sounds i was in the operating room for 7 hours! What had happened is the doctor went through and did the surgery and went back a second time and decided to change some things that he did to make it to his exact perfection, which i thank him for that because i want it to be so perfect that i will be set for life! :) Now what he did in the procedure was he went in and actually cut off half of my hip bone and shaved that so it was nice and smooth and rounded out so that it'd fit inside the socket just great. Also he went into my pelvis and cut it in 3 places so that he could rotate my pelvis up and over that new hip bone he had created. when that was all said and done he stuck 4 screws into my pelvis and to be honest it seriously looks like as if someone just got a nail gun and shot 4 screws into me. ha. they are just placed so random! 

RECOVERY:

I was placed in the hospital for four days after surgery and wow the first night i was in the hospital it was the worst night of my entire life. they had put and epidural in me before surgery to help with the numbness but where the anesthesiologist place the epidural all the medication was going into my left leg (known as my good leg). But the problem was that there was so much medication that was being pumped into that left leg it ended up being so numb i could not feel my leg whatsoever and i then started freaking out. So at 3:15 about in the morning i called my nurse (brad) to tell him the problem he kept saying you're fine it is part of the medication. Later i called him again and said i really don't think this is normal. He goes on to touching my leg and asked can you feel me touching your leg at all? My reply was no. Well him and another nurse decided to try to stand me up and get me to walk? really? are you stupid? Of course they were because i just fell. 

The rest of my stay at the hospital was really good i was not sick and things were great. The day i got to come home was friday. My dad was on his way to pick me up and just his luck he got in a car wreck. Stupid drivers just don't know how to drive and damaged my dads new audi. So he was like an hour late. 

Since being home everything has been going so smooth and great. I have been feeling really good and have been walking really well with my walker and crutches. Nothing has been wrong nor have i had to worry about anything. I went to the doctor on monday and they said that everything was looking great and that i have been recovering extremely fast and that they had never seen someone heal so fast and good. I think its just because i am so young, they usually do this operation on old people so of course its going to be a longer recovery. Anyways they said to come back in 4 weeks for an x ray and see how the bones have healed and i may be able to put full weight back on my leg and be able to walk and start building that muscle back to make it strong and back to normal!! 

I wanna thank all my friends and family for all their support and love through this and i could not have done this without them! i have the best people in my life that i could not as for any others to be in it! i love each and every one of you guys and really do appreciate what you have done. whether it has just been a phone call to a visit or sending me flowers or even bringing me dinner!! thanks!!

goals:

• start a hobby
• look into taking online college classes
• get back on my feet asap and get back into being able to work
• start going to the gym not just to rebuild the hip but to get back into shape for summer
• make something of myself so that i am proud of accomplishments and others notice it
• stay positive all day everyday. don't let anything get me down.
• SMILE! :)) 

game day. game night.

So yesterday a friend of mine came down from Provo to hangout and watch the BYU game we played University of New Mexico. Well to even start off the night i could not find the channel of the game, i literally search through my channels for at least a good half hour. So as my friend is driving down i am texting him explaining to him how i could not find the game. He kept saying calm down Shanie its on this channel, so as he is telling me i am going through searching for the channel and as i find it i was like uhhh no you are wrong it says this game is on. Well him and his basketball smartness he continued to say it was that channel it just was not showing it yet. Yup he was right... haha. Well we watched the game and jimmer threw down 52 points. He is so unreal it is a tad ridiculous!

After the game we sat down and decided to play some ticket to ride and of course i lost.... whats new with that though i tend to always lose at that game. Oh well, i still enjoy playing the game.

Today was the championship game for BYU and today they played SDSU. All i have to say about that game is WOOOOOOOW. They for sure were not on their A game because they got demolished! It was just a pathetic game to even watch. Jimmer did his best i mean he can't always pull a win for his team. His team shouldn't always count on him either! Collinsworth was exactly what his name says! WORTHLESS! anywho maybe they will get it next year.... who knows! Hopefully they can go farther in march madness!

Once again after the game we played a few games of ticket to ride.... oh and once again i lost! But that is ok i have decided to not even try i just now play and do whatever i want just go ahead and lay my trains down where ever and just try and make the longest train. haha. Later on we had me, matt, jordan, and kim now playing. jordan and matt ended up being the winners the round we played. After ticket to ride we started playing phase ten. I started out winning i was ahead of everyone well i got to the phase of having to do 2 sets of 4. WOW it was ridiculous i ended up stuck on that stupid freaking phase at least 9 rounds if not more. i ended up in last place! ugh. But all in all the night was great!