Counting My Blessings
It's been a while, but here I am. Still here. I owe my disappearance in part to the general busyness of life, and the other part to my clumsiness. Three days before Christmas I dropped a counter top on my foot. Yes, a counter top. I crushed the bones in three toes. It was painful, but even more than that it was frustrating. I have two small children, so depending on other people to take care of me and them was hard. But, in the grand scheme of things I can deal with some broken toes.
It was a week later when my whole perspective on things changed. As a result of the inury, being immobile, and being on BC, I developed a DVT (blood clot) in my leg. I'll save you the gory details of the ER visits and panic attacks (let's all hear it for Atavan!) and fearing my children would end up motherless (DVTs are life-threatening). The end result is I had to take a blood thinner for four months. It was very odd going about my daily business knowing I could bleed to death if I fell or were in an accident.
My recent ultrasound showed the clot was dissolved and I was taken off the medicine!!!! I can never take estrogen again, so I'm doing some research on other BC methods (so far the Mirena is my top choice). As for my toes, they are still healing, but are much better. They actually had me go to physical therapy for my toes. I had no idea there was anything that could help toes. There is. It did.
Life is great now. It feels so good to be free from all the medical crap. It was such a downer every time I had to go to the hospital for tests. Every night taking the medicine was just a reminder to me that my body could fail me any day, any time. Now I'm much more appreciative of my body and the life that I have. I am so blessed to be healthy! Now, if I could just get rid of my clumsiness then I could avoid these situations in the future. :)
Here's to health & happiness!
It was a week later when my whole perspective on things changed. As a result of the inury, being immobile, and being on BC, I developed a DVT (blood clot) in my leg. I'll save you the gory details of the ER visits and panic attacks (let's all hear it for Atavan!) and fearing my children would end up motherless (DVTs are life-threatening). The end result is I had to take a blood thinner for four months. It was very odd going about my daily business knowing I could bleed to death if I fell or were in an accident.
My recent ultrasound showed the clot was dissolved and I was taken off the medicine!!!! I can never take estrogen again, so I'm doing some research on other BC methods (so far the Mirena is my top choice). As for my toes, they are still healing, but are much better. They actually had me go to physical therapy for my toes. I had no idea there was anything that could help toes. There is. It did.
Life is great now. It feels so good to be free from all the medical crap. It was such a downer every time I had to go to the hospital for tests. Every night taking the medicine was just a reminder to me that my body could fail me any day, any time. Now I'm much more appreciative of my body and the life that I have. I am so blessed to be healthy! Now, if I could just get rid of my clumsiness then I could avoid these situations in the future. :)
Here's to health & happiness!