Doing alright considering everything going on. Have a follow up appointment tomorrow with my surgery. How are you?

I can understand that. I had to wrap maya up in a blanket to get one pill in today. It was so much "fun." How goes it today? Tomorrow I have surgery follow up.

Oh no :( I have done that with files too and it honestly makes me want to cry. Hopefully it isn't too too much work to redo =/

I hope the followup has good news! I'm okay, stressed and worn out in turns but mostly okay :)

Aaw It's alright here, I hope it goes well tomorrow !

Yeah, I've done it a fair few times. This one is a fairly simple design, so mostly just an annoyance. I wouldn't bother if it isn't something I was planning on more than one color; IF it's something I put on site.

thanks I hope so too. I have a few more weeks of the cast. It'll depend on what he says but I'm thinking of going ahead with the next surgery at the end of April, though we'll have to see how this situation progresses. It just would be a good time to be laid up and it's not at the hospitals so it wouldn't be impacting their services.

I FINALLY got some tp!!! Got CVS to sell us some through the drive through. thank you cast!

lol yeah she didn't like it. thanks. It'll be painful I'm sure but there's been less pain in the last week over all.

Less pain is good !

Agreed. the apt went well :) my next apt in is 3 weeks and then I'll have one more before the cast is removed. Looking forward to some cast-free time LOL

Your vagueness about the item has me intrigued. I'm sorry you've got to redo it but I hope you decide to put it on the site after doing double work!

Yeah - it's definitely not a bad time to get it done considering you're already stuck inside mostly anyhow, so it's not adding additional strain to your day to day in that regard. Hopefully they can get you in and sorted still ❤️ And yay for TP!!! We got some at Costco on Saturday. I was about to head out to do normal grocery shopping and pick up my mom's birthday cake and a friend called and confirmed the costco had it and I stayed on the phone with him while he went inside (there was a line to get in to keep shopper numbers down) and he grabbed some for us too and held it until we made it inside (they were already informing the line when we got into it that all the TP and paper towels were gone from the sales floor again).

I've never had a cast that needed to be on for long. I had to have some when I fractured my fingers, but they weren't ones that I had to be too strict with. But I can imagine the annoyance.

Well, it's a helmet item. So it's an iffy "will they allow it or nah" issue.

fingers crossed it can be on site

he said I have to wait for three months post op before I can do the other leg so guess it will also depend on the progress on the virus. I mean if it looks like I can still go to the scrapbook expo. I'll see how things are going in the start of June to know what to do. Glad you got tp and cake :D that's cool.

It sucks but it's okay. I am looking forward to not have a stiff boot on all the time which is what the cast kinda feels like. How's you? Doing anything interesting?

I had a cast forever, or so it seemed, when I broke my ankle so bad in 2015.

All hospitals, including the one where I work, are postponing surgical procedures that aren't time-sensitive (cancer, because it spreads; pregnancy terminations, because they're more dangerous the longer you wait; trauma surgery) so we would only do revascularisation on a leg right now if you were in immediate danger of losing a limb or dying.

I'm surprised they are even still having a scrapbook expo!

This is for your own safety. Anyone with diabetes, peripheral artery disease is at increased risk for becoming severely ill or dying of COVID, so they want to keep you out of the hospital because that's the easiest place to get it.

yeah i know I and my parents are much higher risk. Its not at a hospital though. Its at a podiatrist office. The expo is in July so the company is hoping things will be better by then. Yet my doc told me the podiatrist conference has been cancelled for the year and he's not sure how they will do credit hours to stay certified. I would be allowed to have the second Achilles tendon lengthening as soon as June 19. So thats why this is so hard to know what to do. If its still going like wildfire i think it would be best to wait even though i would like it to be done and over with. I dont want to risk my family's health either or mine. This is also the worst leg. Doc said i have no more then five years with the leg if its not done, so it does give me a bit of time to wait. I know that if my body is healing then I'm at more risk as well. Lowering my immune system. And antibiotics won't help stop a virus. We are using delivery for our shopping or curbside with masks i made. Wash the masks after each use in hot cycle. We wash our hands after putting groceries away as well. So we're doing everything we can. Theres just no idea how much longer haul we are in for.3 months? A year? Its so hard to know. I really wish i knew. I want to get my diabetes under control but i won't risk going to the clinic until things settle down so am working on lowering sugars and carbs myself, life style changes need to be done anyway. Really glad we moved. We were living right smack in the middle of the Georgia hot spot. Our new county has a much smaller population with lower confirmed cases, but they seem to climb daily too. So thats why i really dont know if i should do the second surgery in june or not. If the social distancing is over then it sounds like a good idea but if he's still doing them but its not over then should i wait? My thinking is split on it so it seems best to wait and see what its like at the start of June and then have a realky hard look at which option makes the best and safest choice

well, the one sure way I know of to get diabetes under control is to eat only animal-based foods like meat and dairy (without sugar) and vegetables. It's not fun, but it works. If you don't eat sugar or starch it's pretty difficult to get high blood sugar, and that's how they kept diabetics alive as long as possible before they discovered insulin. (It doesn't work forever with Type I diabetics, unfortunately.)

(I don't have diabetes but I know a lot of people get it under control doing keto or keto carnivore, and I cured my diabetic cat by severely limiting carbs.)

Your doctor and hospital should have a good idea of how safe it is to do the surgery. Right now, we won't let doctors schedule surgeries where I work unless we are sure that the patient absolutely needs to have it now or something worse than COVID-19 will happen to them. Most hospitals are doing the same thing, although only Texas has been enough of a butt to rule pregnancy terminations non-essential because apparently they think that the risk of having a termination at 6 months instead of 2 is preferable to getting a disease that most people find very unpleasant, but doesn't usually kill people who are not already sick with something.

Actually I'm sure they don't think that; they think they can force people to have babies they don't want this way, because hardly anyone still remembers what kind of cases ended up in ERs when abortion was illegal.

Yeah I know. But whilst I dont mind being more meat centric, I hate a lot of veggies and there's no real way I can cut out carbs. I'm extremely picky. I'm struggling with lowering them as it is. I'm trying to pick less carbs or taking them out for all but one meal. Doing the best i can.

Well like I said, it's not in the hospital. I don't have anyone else to ask because I have no insurance so I only have the doctor.

Somehow I missed that it's not in the hospital. Yeesh, sounds awful hugs

no worries. LOL it isn't fun no. Especially the surgery awake.

I knew about the awake part, but why aren't they giving you better pain control during the procedure? I don't like this. You're up in my prayers, babe.

If you really hate veggies, carnivore keto is a thing that exists and apparently some people do really well on it.

ONE CAN HOPE.

And you will hopefully be able to move better once it's all said and done. I have drawn a little bit. I have a few things in the queueueue waiting to be denied, finally got my spring fairy background done and on site, drew a couple of things that may or may not get on site at all. But I couldn't resist drawing them.

I'm sorry you've got to wait longer on the second surgery but I'm glad they want to make sure you go through recovery really well first. And I'm surprised the scrapbook expo hasn't been cancelled already - out here everything has been cancelled for now and we're looking at mid-late May before we even get the possibility of potentially easing restrictions.

ALL THE HOPE fingers crossed

I want chocolate and I don't have chocolate.