Someone tell the world to stop turning!

I'm ready to get off! Work has gotten nothing but more insane since my last post. We had some more people leave which added a couple more jobs on to my list. My boss coninues to assure me we will be bringing in more people to help me out (he actually told me the other day that it's unreaonsable of my company to expect me to ge all of this work done, so that's encouraging), but good help can't come soon enough. We did get one new person, but we need more.

I need a vacation so I'm taking one. I'm so excited! I put in for a week toward the end of July. My husband and I are going to be off together and although we don't have solid plans, it's nice to know I won't be in the office for an entire week.

And starting tomorrow night... Mini-vaca! We're going on a trip out of state and I'm so excited. We'll only be gone for the weekend but it should be nice and relaxing.

I really need this. My allergies have been going crazy with all the pollen in the air, and the stress of work has been making my ankle flare like crazy. That's been leading to little sleep, which makes my ankle flare more, and the vicious cycle continues.

Life is crazy

I know, I know... I haven't updated my blog in a long time. I kind of suck at this whole blog thing.

I'll start with an update on my ankle. I am now off crutches. It feels nice to be "walking" again. I still have quite the limp, and the pain can still be intense at times, but it has gotten much better. My pain levels have gone back down to a 4 or 5 when I first wake up, and only get bad later in the day. The doctor gave me a clean bill of health the last time I saw him. Eventually I'm sure the pain and limp will decrease. I just need to stay on it and keep working it.

My mom bought me Wii Fit Plus a few months ago and I was finally able to start using it in the beginning of January. I can't begin to express how much it has helped in the rehabilitation of my ankle. I told my orthopedic doctor about how I've been using it, and he gave his stamp of approval. He said it should aid in my recovery. He also clued me in to a new game for the Wii, which I'm excited to try at some point. It's the Wii Resort, or something like that. I'll have to look in to it.

Work has been insane lately. My boss brought in some help, and both of the new hires are great. Hopefully we'll be able to catch up a bit. I'm in the process of training one of them now, so hopefully soon she'll be able to pick up some of the slack.

It's Christmas...

I'm home alone tonight (my husband has to close, so he won't be home until 11:30-11:45). This morning we went to my Sister-In-Law's house for Christmas. It was really nice to spend a few hours with the family. My niece is adorable when she opens gifts.

We'll start with the good news. My ankle seems to be progressing quite well. I can limp on it for short periods of time now. That's a huge milestone for me :) I'm continuing the the PT, and slowly putting more and more weight on it as I walk.

Then to the bad news. I'm able to give a bit of a forewarning this time. I may not be able to post any updates for a while. Work is picking up again. We reach a huge milestone recently, and lost a major part of our department, so I'm going to be insanely busy there for a while. Hopefully the stress doesn't set back my recovery.

A light at the end of the tunnel?

Shortly after my last post I broke my ankle (yup, the one with the RSD). It's been a long 4 weeks. I hadn't used crutches in such a long time I had almost forgotten how to use them. I've gotten the hang of it since, though.

I've been trying my best to keep it mobile and keep up with my PT, as per the doctor's instructions.

I had my check up with the orthopedic doctor today. He checked out my ankle, had me stand on it (which I managed to do for about .5 seconds), and told me it looks good. He said it seems to be healing, and it doesn't seem as though I've done any more damage than they had originally expected :D He scheduled a follow up for 6 weeks from now, but he said that if I'm walking on it in a month or so, I could call and cancel it.

It's nice to get some good news :)

Oh the stress of life...

It has been incredibly stressful around these parts lately. The stressors have just been piling on top of the work that I've been talking about for a while now.

The week before last my grandfather passed. He had cancer, so we knew for a while that he was going to die, but once it got bad he just deteriorated so quickly. Before we knew it he was gone.

Then on the way home from the funeral on Thursday I started coughing this hacking cough, and sneezing. It didn't let up all weekend, so I went to see the doctor today. Yup, you guessed it, I have H1N1.

I just can't seem to catch a break lately.

Flare ups...

I've been very busy lately. I've been working a lot. I've been working almost 10 hours of overtime every week :( It's really stressful. It's been causing my RSD to flare quite a bit. It's peaking at about 6/10, so it's not as bad as before the SCS, but it still sucks. Hopefully before to long my company will find a way to get me back on my regular 40 hour a week schedule.

In my last post I mentioned my husband was sick. He's feeling much better now :)

Busy as a bee

The last time I posted an entry we were moving. We're done with the moving, but we're not really unpacking unless we need something. We're so sick of it all at this point.

We've been so busy. My husband has been working long hours at his job. He usually works late into the night, which doesn't really jive with my early morning schedule, but we're working though it. I've been working overtime at work again. There's so much to do at the end of the quarter.

A couple of weeks ago a local brewery had a beer festival. We had plans for a bunch of people to come over afterward, but only our families ended up showing up. We still had a great time, though. We made chili, pulled pork, mulled cider, and this delicious buffalo chicken dip. Everyone had tons of fun.

Then this week my husband got sick. It's nothing serious, and I think he's on the mend, but I've been taking care of him. I had been planning on using Friday night to unwind. Instead I sat up until 3:30 with my husband becase he couldn't sleep. It was a long weekend...

It's been kind of stressful, so the pain level is a bit higher lately. I'm thinking of taking a vacation coming up in the next few months. I really need to talk to my boss about that.