A Week In Review

Its been a crazy week and I have neglected to tell you all about it.
Last thursday night, I broke my foot. I'm not 100% sure how I did it. I was wearing sandals that really strapped by foot in, and had some lift to them. I was also in a hurry... I needed to run to the pharmacy to get Darb's prescription that I had been waiting for all week. So I jumped off the couch and handed Darb to Jason, proceeded to the door, stepped over some running shoes and a toy, and stepped down on my right foot on the outside of the foot and just collapsed. I don't know if I tripped and caught my foot on the shoes or if I naturally was an idiot and landed wrong. The world will never know. But I do know that it hurt tremendously and I immediately saw a pucker in my skin, which... I know enough to know that isn't good.
I iced it and compressed it immediately, also elevated it. The pain set in gradually. After an hour, we decided I just couldn't handle the pain anymore and probably wouldn't be able to sleep with it. So we went to urgent care. They took x-rays and let me know my 5th metatarsal was broken. Urgent Care, being as hokey and unreliable as ever, then scared me by saying I'd probably need surgery and a bolt. Then they let me go, but then reluctantly gave me crutches... it didn't make sense to me either why they'd be so hesitant to give me crutches, but I pushed for them and acted quite sweetly. I don't know how I could have survived last week without them!

So Jason took care of Darby last weekend, while I was on the mend. I did a lot of sitting. A LOT of sitting. Have you ever sat around so long that your butt actually starts to hurt? It was like that :oP But I was thankful for the help and the relaxing activities I got to participate in, like sewing, sleeping, and more sewing.

My wonderful mother came up for the week. She was able to take care of me and Darby while Jason was a work. Then really, she takes care of all three of us when jason is home :o) A Ton of fantastic friends and church friends came by all week, dropping off dinners! Jason says that they all volunteered to cook since they knew Jason was going to have to do the primary cooking :o) Either way, all the meals were fantastic and a huge blessing to us!

On the following thursday, one week later, I had my appointment with the orthopedic surgeon. He said the fracture was near the base of the foot and it rarely needs surgery. He said its in a great place to start healing. He freed me to do whatever whenever I feel like i can. He said this type of break does take a long time to heal, like 8-12 weeks. But I can lose the crutches when I feel like I can, wear this boot thing, and start driving again when I feel like I could slam on the breaks if I needed to. Driving will probably take another couple weeks to be able to do, since it was my right foot. But I'm already up and walking! Its a slow go, but I'm up! I'm also probably on my feet a little too much now. I wasn't in any pain when I was on crutches, but now that I'm walking, the pain is a little more intense and constant. I keep it iced and elevated still when i can.

Today, being saturday, we went to Darby's first Music Class!!!! It was so much fun. We're doing it though the city, but its at a music academy, which is really cool. The teacher is super fun and there are 10 babies in the class! Can you imagine that many babies sitting together in a circle? Its hilarious and a lot of fun. Darby really seemed to like it. You could tell though when it was time for class to be over... all the babies, including darby were getting fussy and a bit tired. But we honestly had a lot of fun. I think Darb liked seeing the other babies, now that he's more aware of his surroundings. The best part was having Jason there too! It was a fabulous family activity! There were only 3 Dads there, including Jason. So he didn't feel like he was the only guy, but I felt proud to have my husband there to show off. We're looking forward to next Saturday's class!!!

I think thats about it. Since I had to do a lot of sitting this week I have been able to do work on the computer. I started to set up my Etsy shop, started working on the graphic design with a designer, did some sewing, and started perfecting my embroidery skills too. I did a LOT of surfing around on Etsy too. If you've never done it, i realllllllly think you should. I made a vow that if i can, I'd like to do more shopping from Etsy than from the store. By shopping Esty, you often find SUPER unique gifts and gadgets, and you know you're probably supporting another stay at home mom, or art student, or who knows who. It just feels good to do it. I know how great it feels to make a sale, and I like buying things from there and letting other people get that feeling too. When my site is done, I'll be posting it on here.

Okay, I need to get back to my football game :o) happy weekend everybody!