Day After Swimming

Yesterday was just an all around not a very good day. After swimming I mentioned getting a headache but didn't think it was going to turn into a migrain. Sometimes when I go swimming indoors I get headaches from the chlorine smell. I don't know why but I have done that since I can remember ever swimming in an indoor pool. Since my mom is out of commission and still not driving due to her clumsy running into a tree incident, I had to go pick up the kids from school. I got there early and parked in my usual space and turned on a movie for the 3 year old Emma. And then I had to lay down to close my eyes so that I wouldn't puke from my headache. My kindergarten got into the car just ready to talk talk talk. I had to tell her to shhh because mommy had a headache. THen my fourth grader got into the car ready to talk talk talk. I had to tell her shhh mommy had a headache. THen my son a 2nd grader got into the car and about that time I heard a tap tap tap on my window. And standing there was one of the kindergarten teachers and a concerned parent. THey just wanted to make sure everything was ok because I had my head down for such a long time.(I was embarrased but so glad somebody cared that means a lot to me.) I said yes that I just had a really bad headache. And smiled. I can usually seem to pull out a smile even when I am hurting. That is just me. I took that kids home and by then the medicine that I had taken was finally starting to take effect and I wasn't feeling as bad. At least I didn't puke and have that feeling anymore. I got my oldest ready for dance and drove her out there and then came back to fix dinner. So this morning when I awoke that snap crackle and pop that I heard and felt yesterday was apparent today because now lefty is hurting and "giving out". But at least I don't have a headache. Also since I went swimming yesterday it messed up what I typicall do during the day-laundry, housework, etc. So when everyone awoke, my son was asking for his school pants, my oldest daughter her uniform, my kindergarten was asking why mommy didn't have her uniform laying out on her bed, even my hubby had to search to find his belt because I didn't hang it up for him. What are they going to do when mommy is out of commission. I don't know. Everything just falls apart. My hubby tried to play it off like it was my fault because I can't manage the house and workout at the same time. But oh well I just enjoyed the pool so much even though it came with sacrifices.

Snap, Crackle, Pop

I decided that I would go swimming today. My right hip is really hurting today to the point to where when I walk it is turning in. So I thought why not put the YMCA membership to good use and swim and put the babies in the kid care center. It went so much better in my head. My mom went with me because she wanted to do some excerises. She hurt herself by running into a tree ( long story) but hasn't been able to drive for about the last four weeks so I picked her up and we went to her Y (the old people Y). So I drop of the babies and head for the women locker room to drop off my stuff. The water felt so good and I didn't feel my hips hurting. All I could feel was my left hip grinding/popping "snap crackle pop" a bit while moving my legs. Then this old lady came up to me telling me about her arthritis and that I was barely coming above the water. My mom just spoke right up and said yes she also has 5 kids. The lady looked at me funny and then said that we weren't exercising enough. Whatever. I just went about my swimming for another 25 minutes. As I was getting out I hear my name being paged overhead and to come to the kid care center. So I hurry and grab towel and head there. And it was the youngest Paylynn. I left Emma so I could go change but my stuff was still in the (18 and older) womens dressing room. I went in there to get my stuff with the baby and that darn old lady came right up to me telling me that kids are not to be in here. I tried to explain why she was here. SO I felt uncomfortable and took my belongings to go and change in the girls locker room but once I got there I realized that I left my pants and top in the other locker room. So I headed back there to get it. I thought my 15 month daughter doesn't care if there are naked people. She doesn't know the difference. I was a little upset and frustrated by this time and to make it worse my right hip just was hurting so very bad. I didn't get to shower so I had chlorine smell in my hair and skin. I got dressed and went to pick up Emma and left frustrated. That old lady probably thought she was old and knew it all because she was old and had arthritis and I was young and didn't have a clue. Well little does she know. Now I don't get a shower because I have to go and get the kids from school, run my oldest out to dance, come home and fix dinner. All I want is feel better. And now I have headache from the smell of the chlorine.

Hips Behave Now

Today has been a not so good day. The hips weren't behaving today. It mostly started from when I was stepping into the shower and my right hip decided that it was going to do the wierd giving way feeling. It made me say a few choice words. I don't like it when it does this. I just want to yell out when it does this. It is an eye popping pain. And it just so happened that it wasn't going to feel better afterwards like it sometimes will. So all day that has meant whiny hips. My left has just been more aching but bad enough to where I am finding it hard to deal with it. I did give in and take something for it.
It has also been day where the babies have been one step ahead of me today. Never a good thing. I finally laid them down for a nap at around 1pm. And they were sleeping so soundly until I had to wake them up at 245pm to go get the kids from school. I even laid down for about 30-35 minutes myself only because I have been hurting more than usual today.
The hubby was great today. He took me an bought me chocolate custard icecream from Freddy's. And to make it even better we had a coupon for $0.85. It made the deal even sweeter because we didn't have to spend much to get a treat. Oh yes, I must mention that the things we do for our kids. My husband had the day off yesterday and so he decided that he was going to do a scavenger hunt to try and win 4 front row tickets for Sesame Street Live so he could take a 3 year old too. Clues came hourly beginning at 9 am and the last one ws at 1pm. The first to arrive at the arena then would tickets. And they also were giving away 2d and 3rd place prizes as well. The first clue came at 9 and it was to find a yellow feather. The 2nd clue was find a rubber ducky. 3rd was take a picture of yourself standing in a trash can. 4th find a stuffed Elmo. And so I told him that the last one was going to have do with Cookie Monster. He is the only other character that is pretty big. And I thought probably would need a chocolate chip cookie. So we took a chance and headed down to the arena with everything. So when the last clue was given, you did need a cookie but also sing C is for Cookie. He didn't know the song and wanted me to go inside but I saw a guy getting out of the car and told him to go and run. So here are these two grown men running inside with Elmo dolls. It was a sight to see but to make it even better the "judge" video taped the 3 winners singing the song. He didn't win first but did win 2nd. I guess a lady had parked on the street and had a short distance to run. But 2nd wasn't bad. We did get two tickets and bought two more. One for me and our 5 year old. They aren't front row either but you know what that is ok.
Hoping for the hips to be a little less tempermental tomorrow.

EXCITING!

I am so very excited because for Valentine's Day I recieved a very unexpected gift. TAYLOR SWIFT tickets. I am so very excited that I get to go and see her. When I first started to listen to her CD I just loved all her songs. And now I sing along with all of them. Even my kids know that I love listening to her. She is coming April 1st. That happens to be a Thursday. Which also is my oldest daughters dance day. So I am going to have be creative in how to get everything all situated. I have only been to one other concert in my life and that was Micheal Buble, when I was 8 months pregnant with our last baby. So that would have been Oct. 2008. I can't wait. Speaking how time flys...in less then two weeks I will meeting with the doctor and hopefully leave the appt. with a surgery date. From now and until, well for awhile that is, my calendar is just full of upcoming events for the kids. Time to start making a list and marking it on all calendars so then I hopefully won't forget. And my husband thinks I have it easy, just staying home and doing nothing. If only...But we can all dream because the grass sometimes does look greener on the other side until we get there and find out the truth. So yes I am hoping to leave the appt. with a surgery date and them my husband can truly see that sometimes being a mommy isn't as easy as it would seem.

What A Day

Time really does fly. Two more weeks and I will be in Boston meeting with Dr. Millis. Today while I was signing papers for the kids, my 3 year old was busy too. After signing the papers I went to put something away in the kids bathroom. I always keep the door closed so the baby doesn't go in there and start to fish in toilet bowl. Well, I caught Emma the 3 year old attempting to wash her hair in the toilet. Seriously what is the deal with the toilet. It is GROSS! To make matters worse, I got upset with my husband and after he left to take our son to his boy scout meeting. I started to clean up from dinner. I was upset and didn't watch where I was stepping or notice the spilled milk on the floor. So I was going to clear the table and slipped on the milk that the baby had spilled when she was on the table and fell down. I landed on my thumb. And now it hurts. I think I just more overstreched it or bent it a little too far. But it still hurts. I couldn't find the phone either. I tried paging it but I had turned it off while the babies were napping today and didn't turn it back on. So that didn't help when I pushed the page button. And of course it has been a day where when I woke up my right hip hurt and immediately began doing that strange giving out feeling. And it has been doing it on and off all day. And when I was getting into the car to get the kids from school my left hip pulled and it hurt. But thank goodness the hurt went away. I can't say much for the right. It still is giving out and hurting. Then throw in the thumb hurt. He shouldn't have left me upset. I must admit that he did come home and apologize. That means alot to me and makes me feel loved. Now it is time to sit down, watch a little T.V., and relax a bit before bed.

You Might Be Dysplastic If...

I have read this on a couple of other blogs. I just think it is just hilarous. This definitely will give you a good laugh. Enjoy!


You might be dysplastic if ...
1. You are under 30 and own a walker, a raised toilet seat and a hip kit.
2. You have said, "it's not a hip replacement, they are breaking my pelvis" more than once in the same day.
3. You are adept at doing the "fist in hand" demonstration of a what a normal hip looks like, followed by what YOURS looks like, followed by how the surgeon will correct it.
4. While carving a turkey, you take the opportunity to demonstrate for your guests how periacetabular osteotomy works using the carving knife, said turkey, and a few screws from the junk drawer in the kitchen. You end up ordering pizza.
5. You are the youngest person in your aquatherapy class.
6. You are the oldest patient at the children's hospital.
7. Before going on any outing you ask, "how far will I have to walk?"
8. You can spell "iliopsoas" and "trochanter."
9. Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow. You have hundreds of words for hip pain: snapping, grinding, tin foil, popping, giving way, ripping, tearing, shredding, burning ...
10. Even though you got a "C" in high school biology, you can name and describe the function of every muscle, tendon and bone between your belly button and your knee cap.
11. You practice sleeping on your back so that you'll be ready for the weeks post surgery.
12. You are a woman but you say the word "groin" a lot.
13. You have posted a picture of yourself in a hospital gown on the internet.
14. You have posted pictures of your incision, your x-rays, your hardware, or your surgeon on the internet.
15. You've refinanced your house and/or cashed out your retirement accounts just in case you have to pay for a surgery which your insurance company may, at the last minute, deem "not medically necessary."
16. You have a blog which you update hourly (first week post diagnosis), obsessively (in the months leading up to surgery), daily (the week before surgery), daily with help from a family member or nurse (from the time the epidural comes out until you leave the hospital), bi-weekly (from the time you leave the hospital until you get to throw the damn crutches away), then twice monthly until such time as you just want to get on with your life again. You then update the blog one year after surgery with a picture of your healed incision. Unless ... you need surgery on the other side; if so, repeat.

Oop...I Have Been Busy

So I thought my youngest had her 15 month appt. today. I had made her appt. back at her one year checkup. At this time I received an appt. card with the day, date, and time on it. I put the card in my wallet and didn't worry about looking at the card again until about two weeks ago. I usually write the appt. down in my calendar book shortly after making it and guess what I didn' t do it this time. So with the holidays, birthdays, and gathering all my info. to send Dr. Millis, I didn't even think to check the date until about two weeks ago. And at that time I looked at the card which read "Friday Feb. 10th at 830 am"". I didn't even realize that the 10th wasn't a Friday. So when I went to change my calendar to Feb., a week later, I marked in all the important dates. I remembered that the card had said Frid. something. so I marked it on the calendar as the 12th her appt. But last night when I looked at the card to double check the time, I saw the mistake. And it was too late to call the office because it was after hours. I decided to go ahead and take her in anyway. But when I went to check her in, they told me her appt. was for last friday the 5th. And to make it more complicated they couldn't work me in. So they scheduled her for Monday the 15th of Feb. at 900. Oh well mistakes happen and I have been busy with getting appts. made for me.
But that isn't all I must add a few more interesting happenings for the day:
So when get home from what I thought was appt. day, but really wasn't. And the the three old and 15 month old decided that while mommy was starting to do the morning dishes they would go and brush their teeth and wash their hands. Oh how wonderful of them if only they used the sink instead of the toilet for their water source. That was so gross. Thank goodness the toilet was flushed. But yuck. They obviously don't see yuck in the toilet though. And then I get them out of the bathroom. And instead of trying to finish the dishes I put away clothes. That should be safe, wrong again. Because as I was finishing up I realized how good and quiet they were being. That is never a good thing. So I come out into our living room to find them with my chocolate peanut clusters in their ever so tiny precious baby hands. The baby looks up at me with her chocolate covered face and mouth stuffed full of the chocolat yummies and smiles. Emma tries to blame her sister but I knew it was her who got into them. You just have to them. So hopefully if I can get a surgery date scheduled at my consultation appt., things like this won't happen for the grandparents. It would make life for them too interesting.

Confirmation Notice

Today I just received an email confirmation notice from Sharelle. It gave directions of where I am to go the day of the appt. Also last night we bought our plane tickets for the appt. We leave Wednesday morning and get into Boston by afternoon. Before the appt. I have to call to make sure all my insurance info. is in the computer. I go to Waltham to get the MRI. I am to be there by 845am and they will do the MRI at 9. Then we head back to Children's Hospital in Boston for the appt. with the doctor at 1130. But we are to arrive 30 minutes early and get some extra xrays of my hips. I have also been instructed to bring my own shorts without snaps/buttons. This will be good because my appt. at the Mayo Clinic I had to wear their shorts which were an XL, way to big for me. Any way I am excited for this appt. I just can't wait.

A Phone Call

I have heard back from the doctor's assistant today. I have a consultation scheduled for March 4, 2010. I am so very excited. I started out this journey wanting to meet surgeons and I found a second one to meet in Boston, a Dr. Millis. I have read from some of his patients very good things with great outcomes. That is comforting to know. Now we are looking at plane flights. My appt. will be on a Thursday. He sees all new patients on Thursday. But before I get to see him, I go get an MRI done at 845 am. And then we go for our consultation at 1130. The appt. will be here before I know it. I have much anticipated excitement ( a little mini vacation again) for this visit.