ANKLE SURGERY #2

So for Spring Break while everyone is going to amazing places around the world I'll be in la-la land because of being heavily medicated.  I'll be having Right Ankle – Lateral Ligament Reconstruction Surgery March 3, 2011.  While others are laying on beautiful beaches and spending romantic nights in Paris and Barcelona, I'll be heavily medicated, snuggling and watching lots of movies with my sweetheart, and be waited on for a solid week until I can finally get up and down by myself ha! 

 PROS:

*I get a handicap pass so that I can park up close to any buildings at school, church, etc. 

*No work for a whole week

*I have an excuse to wear sweats and lounge clothes

*Mama flies out to take care of me

*Makes me make time to finish the wedding invitations ha

*I'll get to stop wearing the boot right before I get my bridal and engagement photos taken ha

*Good excuse to not have dancing at the wedding reception hs

*I get to drive the buggy things at wal-mart!

*Thanks to my bffs Jess, Jane, and  Julie, I will be driven to class and anywhere I need to go :)

*Pedicure before surgery

CONS:

*I'm out for 12 weeks with a cast (still deciding on the color I want, this is only my 5th cast ha, any suggestions??) for 6 weeks, a boot for 6 weeks, and then a splint for a good bit after that

*6 months of no athletic activities...only walking

*I'll be wearing a splint for my Bachelorette Party in Vegas in May...but DON'T think for a second that it will keep me from having all the fun I want!  Splint or no splint...DANCING WILL HAPPEN!

* No working out for a while (but my body will not go to crap..that's a promise hah..I still have to make sure I can fit into my wedding dress in August)

*Can't wear heels

*Won't get to wear my cute skinny jeans for 6 weeks

So until March 3, 2011, I will be doing every physical activity I can, participating in every sporting event possible, working out every night, and wearing my highest of high heels every chance I get!!! My weekend plans:  Working out every night, enjoying the sauna, relaxing in the hot tub, scrapbook club, dance party, snowmobiling with awesome friends, and church with my bffs!!

Despair and subject to change

We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness and despair.

DEAN KOONTZ, Odd Thomas

Most people can look back over the years and identify a time and place at which their lives changed

significantly. Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of a readiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we are forced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under which we live and to make certain choices that will affect the rest of our lives.

- Frederick F. Flack

There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.

- Stephen Nachmanovitch

  

We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.

- Mairead Maguire

You may wonder, 'How can I leave it all behind if I am just coming back to it? How can I make a new beginning if I simply return to the old?' The answer lies in the return. You will not come back to the 'same old thing.' What you return to has changed because you have changed. Your perceptions will be altered. You will not incorporate into the same body, status, or world you left behind. The river has been flowing while you were gone. Now it does not look like the same river.

- Steven Foster