Six and seven days left...

Six days til I get my stupid soft cast off and seven days til my official 2 yr postop anniversary!

I'm doing good with my cast on, but it's driving me nuts. I get aches and pains, itches and swelling. I just want to rip this thing off already!! But less than a week now and I'll get it off. I cannot WAIT!! I've needed strong pain pills, but not so strong that it wipes me out. I've been talking HALF of my pain pills that my doc prescribed. I take that only at night just to help me sleep. The rest of time I take Advil just to help with any swelling.

I did go to my parents this last weekend and it was an awesome trip. Again the only part that sucked was getting too the plane I had to go through extra security. Now I'm all for helping them know that it's just a simple cast, but do they have to be rude about it?! Going out was nice oddly enough (flew out of Philly) it was coming home that they were rude all around! (flew home out of O'Hare.) But I did it and didn't have too much trouble while I was there. I slept like a baby and it was weird being there w/o my kiddos!! We plan on going back there this summer tho.

I still can't believe I've made it 2 yrs in remission. I praise God every day for getting me this far. I can only hope to keep going. I have my 6 month labs coming up, so we'll know more then. I hate this testing tho, it always puts me into worry mode. I know I just have to do it and get it over with tho. But TWO. What a nice number. But let's go for 3 shall we?! :D

I dont like being a lefty!

Ok, so I had the surgery yesterday for my hand and it went very well. Quick & painless just like I like it. I have a slight ache today, but its all good. Now I just have to keep my arm elevated for 2 weeks and keep the brace on my hand for that long too.

I took 60mg of hydro for the surgery, then 20mg today, then 15 tomorrow, then back to the 12.5 that I was at. So far I've handled it well. No AI or anything. I can see a slight swelling in my face but hopefully it will go back down like it did after my hyster. Well this is all i can type for now, so here's some pics.

May madness!!

I swear this month is turning out to be crazy!! First the communion, then I find out that my hysterectomy scar is coming apart at the bottom of it. I had to go back to my obgyn where he had to seal it off with silver nitrate. All I can say for that was OW. I had to do peroxide and neosporin daily to keep it from getting infected. Not sure why that happened either, but he doesn't think it healed all the way and I just was moving all over.... I dunno.

Then I've been to the ortho finally and am getting my DeQuervain syndrome taken care of. I'm having surgery tomorrow actually. So I won't get to type much for awhile. I don't have much patience and one hand typing just sucks. But it needs to get fixed, as it's in rough shape. I wish I could do the carpal tunnel too, but one at a time. I'll need to wear a brace for 15 days and then I may or may not need physical therapy. I may take it just to make sure I don't lose function. Since I'm still on steroids, it still takes things a little slower than normal to heal. So I don't want to ruin things once the brace comes off.

As far as the hydro, I have decided to wean down to 12.5mg/dailyl. I've been going back and forth with my estrogen patch, when I finally realized it wasn't the estrogen, it was the hydro. So I slightly lowered my hydro, because the estrogen was making me feel cushie. I remember a friend saying that HRT could raise cortisol. So, I lowered it. As soon as my patch needs to be changed, I have to do it because otherwise I start getting AI symptoms. I told Dr. L what I did and he was fine with it. As long as I'm doing it slow, it's fine. If or when I feel AIish, I need to go back up. I've been doing it that way for 2 weeks now and I've felt great. Even lost another 5 lbs. I haven't been in the 150's since I was in high school, but I like it here and hope to stay! If I could have a tummy tuck and lose all the extra skin in my lower belly, I would look even better!! But I won't, cuz the hysterectomy pain was bad and I heard a tummy tuck is worse! So I'll just deal with it! If hubby can stand it, so can I!! :D

Communion Chaos!

I was so nervous for my two today, I couldn't even eat. It wasn't even about me and I was nervous. But the twins communion went sooo well. It was truly beautiful. All the kids looked great, but my two were beautiful/handsome of course!!

We got there early around 11:45am. The ceremony wasn't to start until 12:30pm. Thankfully almost all of the family showed up from both mine and hubby's side. I'm grateful that both my parents and my brother could be here for this, even if it was only for the weekend. It started right on time and the kids did a parade around the church so everyone could see them. It was nice. Then they started on with the mass. The kids singing was great and so dang cute. When the 4 of us went up to receive communion, I thought I was going to pass out. I kept telling myself, that I couldn't handle worrying about something going wrong, so just deal with it. I went with the flow and managed to get the communion bread down my throat. YAY! We had done it! My kids did it! Then the priest started talking about how we held them when they were baptized. And now we could only hold their hand as they make their way in this world. I cried. I'm such a sap.

Then it was over and I had a photographer come and take a bunch of pics for us to help remember the day. I am so happy she was able to be there and do this for us too, cuz as you see, we got some great pictures!!!

Sorry!

I haven't posted in awhile, cuz I've been so crazy busy! This time of the year is insane. My twins birthday, trip to Hershey Park, Easter, Field day at school, and now the kids communion. When I do have the free time, it's not enough to sit and write anything (like now). But I promise after this weekend I will come and catch everyone up on what's going on with me. I'm still doing good tho and that's all that counts!! : )

For now I'll leave you with a pic of me and my son at their skating party! : )

Ok, I went back and added some posts for my kids bday and our Easter weekend if yer interested!