Bugeyedmonster's Stomping Grounds

Well, I went to the foot doctor today. I didn't do much of anything, so my foot wasn't as swollen as it's been after work. He did the casts today of my feet. The casts are to make a supportive insole to help keep the left foot in shape.

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I have been freed from the boot! I should take a picture of my boot, and post it to Craftgrrl on LiveJournal. I was tired of the look of it, so I got some self-stick rhinestones, and stuck them to it.

Those fell off pretty easily. The next batch I hot-glued on, but I still managed to knock off some of them.

So I've been back to using regular shoes! I think my foot hurts more now, than it did a month back. Dr. Clark said that they cut a nerve, to remove the chip, and that will take time to heal up.

It looks like it's heeling up good, (haha that was unintentional.) The scab has finally fallen off, some of the skin around the incision site is peeling a bit. It's a little swollen around where the incision was.

I go back again this Thursday, and I'll find out if this is the visit where I get a plaster mold of my foot made. He wants me to wear a specialty insole, to help support that tendon.

Anyway....

tomorrow! I have to be there at 6:00 am. Bah. Looking forward to getting that bone chip removed, but not wanting to have that reaction to anesthesia that I had with my Acessa. (I took an hour and 45 minutes longer than they expected to wake up, I was vomiting, and I couldn't eat anything but chicken broth and tea.)

Anyway, check back in when I am more awake.

On another note, a co-worker died. I am not really surprised, because Ginger had been sick for awhile. First she got breast cancer, then she ended up with leukemia, had a bone marrow transplant. About 40 days after, she got an infection. She's been in the hospital. I'd heard from her bestie Carolyn (who also works at Kohl's) that they had to drug her because she was hallucinating.

Well, I got to talk to Helen (who was also on friendly terms with her.) Ginger had been on the upswing, alert and awake. Ginger's daughter contacted them with the news that her mom had had some sort of episode at the hospital. Ginger had started crying at the nurses/ doctors that she was tired of this, and she wanted them to let her go.

So they did.....

I'm wondering how Carolyn and Ginger's daughter are doing now.

I'll admit that when I came in to work today, I saw a vase with live cut flowers, and I was like "oh shit, did Ginger die?"

Sigh.... need to find out when the funeral is.