Interesting Discovery

It's been one week now since I had surgery on my foot. The pain is hardly worth mentioning and the nausea is finally getting a little better. I can do most anything on crutches considering I've spent about 9 months of my life on them. The only drawback right now to getting stuff done is that my foot swells and turns purple if I don't have it elevated for more than a minute or so. But, I expect that to start improving pretty quick.

The cast has been an interesting subject on its own. Of course, the boys couldn't wait to sign their names on it. You can see Levi's on the left of the cast by my ankle. He wrote "Levi I Love You" . He also drew a pretty good KC Chiefs arrowhead at the top of the cast. Caleb and Clay didn't fare so well under the pressure of writing in permanent ink: You can see Clay's signature written backwards at the top of the cast. Caleb's signature is hard to see in the middle, but he was writing fancy block letters and left the "a" out of his name, so that it just says "Love, CLEB".

We've also had to make some minor adjustments to the cast. Once the nerve block wore off on Friday afternoon, I discovered that the cast was pressing really hard against my foot under my little toe. It felt like it was already really bruised. The hospital called that day to see how things were going, so I let them know that the cast was too tight around the top of my foot. She suggested I go to the ER to get it recast. After I hung up with her, I asked David to bring me a pair of pliers. With his help, we were able to break the cast around the top enough to take the pressure off. I don't know if the Dr. will be impressed with my ingenuity or not, but my foot feels much better.

The first three days we were home after the surgery were pretty cold, so we had lots of blankets on at night. Monday night it was a much warmer so we were sleeping without so many covers on. We usually read for a while after we get in bed, so when David turned the lights off later, I noticed something weird. I said "Do you see that ?". There was a neon glow in the room. David sat up and we both started laughing as we realized that my cast was glowing in the dark. I'd had it on for three days and we had no idea ! We thought about waking up the boys so they could see it because we knew they would think it was one of the coolest things ever. However, we decided we could just turn out all the lights in the bathroom and show them the next day. That was two days ago and I haven't got around to it yet, but maybe today I will.