Hi, I am watching Cash Cab on Discovery thus the title.  Have you ever seen it?  It is on from 6-7pm on Discovery.  One of our fav game shows and we learn quite a bit. 

Anyhow, I had surgery again on Friday.  This was supposed to be a simple procedure to pull out 3 rods/wires not requiring a full on surgery in the clinic, but my rods were in too deep. Guess what that meant, under the knife again.....so Ty and I were at Harboview all day once again.  This time I didn't have to stay over night-thank goodness. We were told this would be a piece of cake compared to the last episode.  I wouldn't say piece of cake...but glad it's over.  So, now I am some pain again and now waiting for the next follow up appt to make sure all is healing well.  I was given given local anesthetic on the right foot and some sedatives to put me sort of to sleep. But normally when you have local like that, they anticipate short surgeries, and this went on to be longer so I could feel some pain and when I would say "ouch", I'd feel some injections on the bottom of my right foot (trying to numb up the area again) and then I'd be asleep again.  That was kinda bizzaro.

 

Well, all else is good.  I am keeping busy working from home.  Without that I think I'd be pretty bored. My dad helped with getting our new house painted today.  That should be done this week-we are hoping for new carpet this week (kinda funny to sit back and watch all this happen without touching any of it or even seeing it).

Baby is good, but probably so tired of my hospital episodes.  Ty and I are so ready for labor-24 hospital stay will be so easy after all of this! :-)

 

Nothing else exciting to write about...so more to come.

 

 

Well, I always resort back to "Life is always an adventure" and it surely is.  So, some may know Ty broke his left foot and one metatarsal and due to some mis-treatment has been trying to heal that every since January.  He ended up having surgery April 9th ish.  So, he's been off crutches now for week.  But in the meantime, I went and broke my RIGHT foot and dislocated/fractured several bones in the middle my right foot.  How you ask??  Well, nothing exciting; slipping down the stairs while getting up to go to work one morning in the house....and landed with my knee bent backwards-and lots of weight on my right foot.  I really did some damage (Ty thinks I had to one up his injury).  I am active, but not very athletic (sports and all) and this is an injury that many athletes/aquestrians get- so it is crazy that I got this rare injury- it has a name "Lis Franc".  I have never broken anything before and it was pretty painful.  Maybe this is a way for me to be prepared for labor!

 

So when I fell, my family rushed me to ER (worried probably more about baby than me).

ER visit-first one was at UW-they couldn't deal with it, so referred us to Harborview-what an experience.  After one night in ER (that was overflowing with patients), we were given one patient room that had policemen in it.  We shortly realized we had a convict as a room-mate.  Call us snooty, but baby and I didn't want to stay there (baby was kicking me) so, we asked to be moved and the next shared room ended up being with an interesting homeless lady who ended up asking me for money!  Again, baby didn't like that either, so got ourselves together to prove to all parties that we were ready for home.  We were out of there after 4 nights  and 5 long days of lots of drugs and entertainment.

 

So, now we are in the 28th week of baby and 6+ weeks of my broken foot.  Next week, I am having some rods removed and then 7 more weeks of not being able to bear any weight on the right foot.  After next surgery, next steps may include some PT and walking boot.  I am starting to get pretty restless-I keep having to have motivating self-talks......

"I am almost 1/2 way there....I should use this time to relax.....I have the rest of my life....etc...”  Baby has been fine throughout all this, but gosh, she is already getting a taste of our world! I would say the most challenging thing for me right now is not being able to help around the house and not getting any/very little exercise.  I am so used to moving-that is tough not to.  I love being outside and walking with Uso and Ty-and can't do that:-(  Uso is pretty funny speaking of him.  He sees me crutching and crawling..he knows something is not right so he rarely leaves my side and is extra protective- very cute! Our due date and my foot recovery date are a little too close for comfort, but I am sure it will all workout-I hope! Can you imagine if i deliver before I can walk...that would be insane!

 

Throughout all this, Family has been just amazing! Ty has been very helpful and supportive so it's making it all a little easier as well.

 

As for our house, move is on hold. But we are still getting things ready, like new paint, carpet etc behind the scenes-taking our time. Ty doing mostly everything!  

Well, that's it for now....we are trying to make some time to get out a little (but I have to have a chauffer since I can't drive).  We'll go to parks that I can easily get to, movies, family visits, etc...I even have a wheel chair that Ty pushes me around in.:-)

 

More to come soon-it should be all about baby…J

Sorry for the brief hiatus but we're back.....Baby's Mama has been very busy.  For those that don't know, she broke 5 bones in her right foot - ouch!  I know you all are wondering, how are Mama and Baby doing?  The surgerical procedure required general anesthesia due to the severity of the injury.  We had one of the best trauma surgeons (from Harborview) involved along w/ a team of others making sure both Mama and Baby are doing well.  Good news, after surgery and about 7 weeks of healing (since injury), they are doing fine - yeahhhh!!!

I have added a recent photo of Baby's Mama (notice a little more bump).  Plus, you can hear directly from her in a blog post right after this. 

Our Love,

-Nishi, Ty, Baby Mads, and Uso