Surgery

I had foot surgery on Friday morning to have two plantar warts removed. They were hurting so bad that I couldn't go on living with them on my foot. I had never had a wart before and I didn't know what the first one was when I got it this summer. Then a second one appeared over Thanksgiving.

I was really nervous to have the surgery, but I knew in the long run it would be best. They told me I was not going to be completely asleep for the surgery. I was kind of hoping I could just fall asleep so I wouldn't have to worry about it. I have only had surgery once and that was to have my wisdom teeth removed. They knocked me out for that, but I don't remember much about it. I got to the surgery center and they called me back and I had to change into a gown, wear one of those caps to cover my hair and wear those crazy hospital socks with the grips on the bottom. Then they had me hope in a hospital bed, hooked my finger up to a pulse monitor and told me they would be inserting an IV in so that way they could give me the anesthesia that way. I asked if I was going to be completely asleep for it and they said yes. I was thrilled!!

The worst part was the IV. I had great nurses that took care of me and my anesthesiologist was funny and helped me relax about the whole thing. He started putting in the medicine and told me I would start relaxing. I asked him when it would start working and his reply was, "why don't you tell me." haha About 20 seconds after that, I felt it and I got really dizzy and sleepy. I kind of giggled and said, "Ok it's working." Nick was beside me when they were giving me the medicine. It happened so fast and then they rolled me away to the operating room. I said goodbye to Nick. When I got into the room, I hardly remember anything and then I heard my name to a nurse waking me up. It took me about 45 minutes to wake up.

All in all it was pretty easy. Nick took good care of me and we relaxed the rest of the day. By noon, I was pretty much back to normal. I was feeling great enough that we went to small group on Friday night too and I'm glad we went because it was good to get out of the apartment.

This morning (Saturday) I woke up and my foot was in pain, but I took some more medicine and soaked my foot and changed the bandages, iced it and it feels much better! I'm looking forward to being able to put some pressure on it and being able to walk. I am hoping to be able to return to work on Monday. I can't wait for my foot to get back to normal so I can start working out again and being able to walk like normal. :)

Christmas 2008

What a great time of year! My favorite holiday is Christmas. To celebrate the birth of Jesus and to spend time with family is just wonderful. We traveled for hours to get to Indiana and spend about a week with Nick's family. After that, we traveled several more hours to Iowa to spend about a week there as well. In Indiana, we got to spend some time with our nieces. They are very silly girls and they LOVE to have their picture taken. We took so many pictures and after every click of the button, we would hear, "Can I see it?"

Below is Lindsey, who is still too little to catch onto asking if she can see her picture.

Nick, Jenna and I...Natalie took this picture.

What a bunch of monkeys!!

All three of the girls! Lindsey wasn't too happy about them trying to get her to smile.

Poor Natalie was not feeling well, she found a nice napping place on Uncle Nick's lap.

Our Nephew, Austin, finally got Markio Kart. We can now play online against each other.

Nick's present from Joe. Love it!!

Christmas in Iowa was nice as well. We didn't take quite as many photos because we were busy going here and there and sometimes we forgot the camera. We spent a lot of time watching movies that everyone got for Christmas. We went to Burlington to have Christmas with the cousins and my Aunts on my mom's side. We did Christmas a little different this year. Rather than drawing a name or playing white elephant, we decided to have a family trivia game. We all purchased gift cards and then put them on the table. In order to pick a gift card as a gift, we had to get three questions correct. The questions were about our family and some of them were pretty tough. If we answered a question incorrectly, we would get negative points. So if we didn't want to answer the question in fear of getting a negative point, then we could draw from the challenge bucket and do challenges. It was a lot of fun and my favorite was getting everyone to make a pyramid. And there are all the cousins on my mom's side.

Isaac and Nick playing darts. Watch out! You never know where those darts may go!

DJ & Jonny...looking so serious!