A strange place to start..

This is a strange topic to start on, but I think it's appropriate because this is the reason I started blogging. I just had bunion surgery. No, wait - DOUBLE bunion surgery. If your doctor truly doesn't want you to come back for additional surgeries, he will have you stay completely off of your feet for four weeks. So I am in a wheel chair now. Because my doctor cares.

I haven't left the house much since the surgery. When you are not equipped with a wheelchair-friendly home and car, it is kind of a pain to just get out the front door. One annoyance I have noticed in my short time confined to a wheelchair - there are not very many street spots marked Handicapped. Another thing - there are a lot of handicapped people in Seattle!! I was SO excited about having a temporary handi-placard, and here my friend had to drive all the way down to the 5th level of the parking garage at the movies last night before finding a handi-space! Lame.

Something that made me laugh right before surgery was that they asked me to initial my feet (you know, so they wouldn’t operate on the wrong one…because I was getting both done….???). So I took a picture using my handy dandy iPhone, which I love and I wish the camera and video were better on it, because I have not used my other camera for months. I document my life on the iPhone.

Anywhoodle, here is the picture of my pre-op feet.

So anyway, here I am after the surgery. I was only JUST coming out of anesthesia, but being me, I still had the presence of mind to tell the nurse that

1. now I would need new GREY Ugg boots because I wouldn't be able to wear regular shoes for a time, and

2. I needed my iPhone so I could take a picture.

Luckily my wunnerful hubs was there with my prized possession. Et voila:

Mmmm, how I wish I could have that blue heated blanket at home. No, my toenails are not yellow because of any gross fungus – it was the iodine that they put all over my feet. OH, and they put it on my legs, too! It looked like I was slowly turning into an Oompa Loompa from the feet up! But I don’t know what Willy Wonka would do with a 5′10″ Oompa Loompa…

What's that? You are totally jealous because those post-op shoes look sooooo cute?? Oh yeah. Check these babies out:

It's okay. I probably could let you buy these off of me once I am no longer required to wear them. Oh, and you know how I mentioned that it is hard to get out when you are in a wheelchair? It is one hundred times harder when you have to wear these things. They are the ugliest foot....things ever. I can't bring myself to call them shoes - I feel like I would be offending an entire industry by doing so. If they WERE considered shoes, hypothetically, I would consider them the spawn of Crocs, Birkenstocks, Old-Person Shoes, and those Japanese shoes where the bottoms are elevated by two blocks of wood. They are truly an abomination.

Oh, and also - My feet are, in fact, NOT four inches thick! Shocking. Yes, that is just one lil foot (mine, of course) and a buttload of bandages.

Apparently, I need Mozilla for this blog to quit screwing with my editing. Just figured that out.

Well, I have three more weeks of catching up to do but for now I am going to bed. Good night, imaginary readers!

Love, B