I'll keep it short and sweet. Well, not so sweet... I don't think any of this is sweet. It's sour and nasty and yucky. Bleh.
Yesterday I got up in the wee hours of the morning to attend a 'crutches training session' at my Physical Therapists... good times right? Wrong. I don't like crutches. I got a shin splint in my left leg and started feeling the dysplasia in my left hip. (Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that I have two dysplastic hips.. woo!) Now I know how to enter and exit cars, climb stairs, turn around, go backwards, balance... etc. I also got a new workout routine. Huzzah!
So in the corner of my room next to my shiny new crutches there is a grabber (like those cool ones from the Discovery store with shark heads for the grabbing part, but not as cool because it's for grown-ups. Ugh.) and there is also a long armed scrubber thing for the bath. I feel like a cripple already. (Again it is mature blue and white. I need a scrubber with some pizzazz! Come on, seriously.)
Teachers have set up desks for me in their rooms for when I am in a wheelchair, and I have extra sets of text books so I don't have to worry about having a top locker. (Props to my school counselor, she is amazing for helping me this much.)
Quote to ponder: "Being loved deeply by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao Tzu
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
1 Week, 6 Days.
Mood: Content.
Thinking about: Anatomy quiz tomorrow... yikes!
This is my first post on what will hopefully be a consistent update on my progress. I hope I keep up with this, and don't lose quickly lose interest like I usually do. Oh, my silly teenage brain.. fickle as ever. I suppose since the surgery hasn't taken place yet I should articulate the details.
Quick and Easy Overview:
My surgery is called a periacetabular osteotomy. (periacetabular- around the hip socket; osteotomy- to cut through or around bone) The reason I have the pleasure of enduring this is because my right hip has acetabular dysplasia. (my socket is shaped like a plate, not a bowl.) The procedure will take approx. 5 hours and I will be in the hospital for 5 days, God willing.
(If you're interested in learning more about this, I found this website, its pretty nifty: http://hipandpelvis.com/patient_education/periace/page1.html)
The procedure is on the 18th, the second day of Winter finals. (Eww..) Most of my teachers have been very understanding about me missing school for this surgery, but I am still mad that they won't let me take some exams early. I will be finished with my Anatomy and Calculus finals, but I will be missing AP Bio, Orchestra, and AP Lit. (For personal fitness I have to write a 3-5 page paper on cardiovascular diseases, while the rest of the class gets to run a mile and do an open notes test. Unfair? I think yes.) AP Bio is going to be the most challenging, because there is no way I will be able to retain a semester of information while struggling to sit up.
Some of you may say, "Hey, that Danielle girl is being a drama-mama." Yes, I very well may be. But as of now my outlook on this surgery is grim. And do you think it sounds fun to be two weeks out of surgery and have to take a 2 hour exam? NO! It sounds like negative fun. Backwards fun. Nuf! I think that's symbolic of my sentiments for the matter. I've had eNUF!
TTFN, Ta ta for now.
Danielle
Thinking about: Anatomy quiz tomorrow... yikes!
This is my first post on what will hopefully be a consistent update on my progress. I hope I keep up with this, and don't lose quickly lose interest like I usually do. Oh, my silly teenage brain.. fickle as ever. I suppose since the surgery hasn't taken place yet I should articulate the details.
Quick and Easy Overview:
My surgery is called a periacetabular osteotomy. (periacetabular- around the hip socket; osteotomy- to cut through or around bone) The reason I have the pleasure of enduring this is because my right hip has acetabular dysplasia. (my socket is shaped like a plate, not a bowl.) The procedure will take approx. 5 hours and I will be in the hospital for 5 days, God willing.
(If you're interested in learning more about this, I found this website, its pretty nifty: http://hipandpelvis.com/patient_education/periace/page1.html)
The procedure is on the 18th, the second day of Winter finals. (Eww..) Most of my teachers have been very understanding about me missing school for this surgery, but I am still mad that they won't let me take some exams early. I will be finished with my Anatomy and Calculus finals, but I will be missing AP Bio, Orchestra, and AP Lit. (For personal fitness I have to write a 3-5 page paper on cardiovascular diseases, while the rest of the class gets to run a mile and do an open notes test. Unfair? I think yes.) AP Bio is going to be the most challenging, because there is no way I will be able to retain a semester of information while struggling to sit up.
Some of you may say, "Hey, that Danielle girl is being a drama-mama." Yes, I very well may be. But as of now my outlook on this surgery is grim. And do you think it sounds fun to be two weeks out of surgery and have to take a 2 hour exam? NO! It sounds like negative fun. Backwards fun. Nuf! I think that's symbolic of my sentiments for the matter. I've had eNUF!
TTFN, Ta ta for now.
Danielle
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