Thank God the x-rays were good. I'm healing fine. Just overdid it. I am going to switch PT places. My doctor advised that I use the boot until the weekend to get my foot a rest. When needed, I'm using an Ace bandage. After a few hours my leg was getting itchy from it! But it really did help. I can tell I'm healing in that way as well because when I had just fractured it it was so much pain. There was no way I could even have any bandage on it.
I've needed a lot of sustenance and protein today! I know I'm physically depleted because of the cough that returned last week and a little bit this week.
I've been using this darling Honey pot with my breakfast and it's really comforting. The honey and the cute bear 🥰🍯🧸
Today I struggled actually with patients a lot more! I've been in the house pretty much 6 and 1/2 weeks. Yesterday I was enthusing happily but today was a little harder! No surprise there really. That is life.
It was definitely time for some serious vitamin CH for women as I like to call chocolate! Two mugs of hot chocolate plus a candy bar Have been eaten today. 😳🤣.
I remember when I was young and didn't understand things. Now I understand myself better. Actually. Let me explain how my brain can work. I don't see difference the same or categories. I can definitely see them. But I often don't see things like age or rank or Rich/poor as different. I didn't know that when I was young I didn't start learning about that part of my brain until I was 47! Anyway, so here I am at the lovely Bible camp I worked at and I'm probably 18 or 19 years old. And there was a woman there. A very lovely godly woman who was a mother of one of the campers. Now I ran the canteen and I was given very strict instructions that I could only sell candy bars at the first can not the nighttime one. Well let's just say I refused to sell a candy bar to the mother. When the camp director's wife heard of this, she explained to me and no uncertain terms that you do not deny any mother of candy bar. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🙃😳 Now that I'm older, I would definitely hold by that. Never deny a woman chocolate. Unless you would like to be murdered. 🤣 I am joking. I hope you realize 😳 I do not advocate condone or approve of murder. But you know Billy Graham's wife Ruth Bell Graham was asked once if she ever considered divorcing her husband. Her answer was no but I've considered murder. Which I find to this day hysterical, something very funny.... ! 🤣🙃
Well today was one of those days for me. I wanted chocolate and I got it. Thank the Lord. But actually sometimes I think it may be your body saying I need calories quick. I was really fading and crashing bad. The tuna fish on toast, the candy bar, the green smoothie, the mugs of tea, and the hot chocolate all work together to get me more stable. So while I joke about it actually sometimes you just know what your body needs.
When I had the bad ankle fracture in 2017, I knew right away that I needed a candy bar. It has something to do with calories, physical pain and shock. I don't know how many Snicker bars I ate during that time, but our records show that we ordered two big boxes of them. So I must have eaten at least 40. My doctor not the one I have now was convinced I had ruined myself. That I'd had too much sugar and for sure my blood sugar would be totally wacky and I would have damaged that part of my body that has to do with sugar and insulin I think. However, she was absolutely wrong. Not that I'm advocating unhealthy eating I'm not. And I have done that years ago and it took a while to lose a bit of that weight. But there are circumstances where there is a need. And that was one of them for me. When I fractured my ankle this time I needed chocolate bars at the beginning. I remember that first night my husband dug up in Old diam bar which is a swedish candy bar. I had bought one at Ikea. And that stabilized me. Basically I would feel really shaky because of the pain and shock I think. And having a bit of sugar/ candy bar is just what I needed. I don't know the ins and outs of why.
Anyway, I'm feeling a bit better now. I'm also very relieved that I didn't damage the bone. It's easy for me to get discouraged when I've been housebound so long and then I suddenly was worse.
So my doctor advised that I use the walking boot until the weekend. She said then just using an ace bandage would be fine. I don't even need the brace. She explained that if you use the walking boot too much, you can actually need more PT afterwards.
I believe that! I had to have a lot of PT in 2017 when I had the compound fracture in the ankle. That's now fractured but only a hairline fracture.
Have I linked to this song before? I can't remember. Anyway, I'm listening to it while I write this blog post.
Tomorrow is another day. It'll be good to have some rest. I'm so glad that I have the medical care that I have.
May God have mercy on us.
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