Ooh boy, it’s been a minute hasn’t it? I have really been missing getting on the computer on the daily and catching up with all of you but I am getting better each and everyday!!! This has been some rollercoaster ride, I tell you. I have been sooooo emotional, surgery is a trip!!! Just totally messin’ with my mind for real. Right now though, I can say, I feel so much better and I didn’t think I would ever feel better going through all of this leg healing crap LOL!!!

I had over 200 staples in my leg and thigh (excuse me if I already told yall that) and that was the worst. Just.plain.wrong. You don’t staple people, you staple paper, right? Well of course the hole left in my thigh was huge and the only way they could close me up was to staple me up like a piece of paper, totally unbelievable to me still to this very day. When the doc took the staples out I thought they would spray me with something to deaden the area right, wrong. Dude gave me nothing and proceeded to snatch those suckas out with a staple remover. Yeah just like what they use for removing staples from paper except it was a surgical kit, whatev!!

I was screaming bloody murder up in that joint. Please believe I took my pain meds before I went. I didn’t take enough though and that’s the truth. I should have taken 3 pills instead of 1 but I’ve since learned my lesson. I don’t go to his office anymore unless I’m doped up!!

The next couple of weeks after the staples were removed were a serious trip because I had to keep my leg and thigh bandaged up and changed whenever there was a good amount of drainage and your girl here was draining like a mad woman. The nurse would come out and change me and mom would have to change me two or three more times but what made it so hard was the wound was in such an odd place and it was really difficult to pinpoint where the drainage was actually coming from. So poor mom was in the most precarious positions trying to wrap me up and to get the bandages to stay on I had to be taped up like a mummy. Funny now but shole’ not funny then, trust.

Then I developed an infection, pure grossness!! I won’t even go into detail, just know that it was not pleasant to smell and that’s all I’m going to say about that. My doc had to open my wound and cut out some dead tissue and I had to be cauterized. He told me I would smell something burning, hell I didn’t know the burning was going to be me!!! Yeah dude was burning my ass to stop the bleeding and it was sooooooooooo painful. So now I have major anxiety whenever it’s time for an appointment because I don’t know what to expect and we go to the doc EVERY WEEK!!!! NO FUN FOR ME!!!!

So then after he opened me up I had this massive wound that had to be packed and it was no joke super big. G met us down there for that appointment because mom was sick with bronchitis and she had a doctor’s appointment too. So she left when he came down and he stayed to take me back home. A few days later they ordered this machine for me to be hooked up to 24/7 called a wou.nd v.ac.

Let me tell you I thought they were crazy!!! It’s this huge black sponge with another small foam white sponge and they place that inside of the wound. Then they put this saran wrap like sticky stuff on me to hold in the sponge and foam, then they have this clear tubing that is placed on that and that tubing is also in the wound and then the tubing is connected to the machine which sucks drainage out of the wound and it’s supposed to promote quicker healing. Yeah. I carry this thing around with me all day and all night but honestly, it’s working because the wound depth is getting smaller and the sponge has to be cut now because the whole thing doesn’t fit inside anymore which is wonderful, wonderful news!!!

I know I’m getting better though because I’m back to cooking and baking a little. I also saw my Dollface today so my spirits were lifted to the high heavens. I love that kid soooo much!!!! She said she told her grandfather that she missed me and he called and asked did I feel up to company and that Dollface wanted to come over. I was so dang happy to see her. I never thought it would take this long to heal but the body is boss right now.

So slowly I’m getting better and that in itself is so damn awesome!! Thanks to all of you that pray for me and checked on ya girl over here in the Chi. I can’t say thank you enough because it truly warms my heart to know that you all really care about little old me!!!

Now when is this dangone writers strike going to end cause ain’t nothing on tv anymore!!

Talk later y’all!!