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Well, Now I'll Never Be A Leg Model {part 3}

July 30, 2015 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

After Jay's surgery, we had a little while in the recovery area to be sure he wouldn't immediately die before we were admitted to a real room for the night. Spoiler alert: Jay did not die. The room, like the rest of the hospital, was super nice, and at that point Jay was already able to help transfer himself from the OR stretcher to the regular hospital bed. Painful, but able.

We got him in bed where he was 100% naked and freezing but didn't want to put on clothes because it was too hard, and isn't that the way it always goes when you're sick? Family was chomping at the bit (understandably, it was 8pm at this point) to come visit, so after we met the nurse for the night (Hi, Kate!) and got vitals we "released the hounds," as Jay says. About half the family came to visit and Jay was dozing in and out thanks to trauma-related exhausted and Dilauded, so they stayed for a few hours, brought dinner (YES) and then headed out. Jay insisted that I leave too, so about 11 left to go sleep for a few hours, which didn't work AT ALL because I was so worried. I slept for maybe 4 hours, then got ready again and went to the hospital super early on Sunday.

That's the thing about trying to sleep, it isn't nearly as much fun to rest up when your husband is alone in a hospital room in tons of pain. Luckily he texted me through the night (I keep my phone on silent so I only saw it when I was awake) with updates so I knew that he was awake-ish when I got back. The surgeon had said that he'd come back between 6 and 8 the next morning, which was alarming to me but I was determined not to miss it. The doctors at our hospital have varying schedules, with one doctor never even showing up until well after noon most days. So, I was a little wary of Dr. Geier actually being on his game at 6am on a Sunday, but I'll be damned if the man didn't roll into Jay's room all chipper in his fancy scrubs at 6:35am. Not even the tail end of his window like a cable guy (offensive or flattering to call a surgeon better than the cable guy? You decide). He talked to Jay about his pain (I'M DYING FIX ME) and said that the pain was to be expected but that as soon as Jay felt it was manageable without IV meds he could go home.

after the break are graphic leg pictures. now you know.

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Well, Now I'll Never Be A Leg Model {part 2}

July 29, 2015 by Lindsay 3 Comments

So, after our beach rescue and ambulance ride, we finally made it to the hospital, maybe an hour and 15 minutes after the actual breaking of the leg, per text messages I was sending around the same time. Jay was taken in the special way and I walked in front to wait for him to get a room.

To back up just a minute, you'll remember that no one "could" advise us on which hospital to choose, and we were all kinds of baffled because we were from out of town and obviously don't know things about hospitals when we travel. There was some kind of discussion on the ability to find a pulse in the foot on the injured leg: if they could find one we'd go to a close hospital, if not we'd go to a far hospital better equipped to deal with trauma. As luck would have it the ambulance EMT workers FOUND A PULSE and we got to go to the close hospital. A stranger watching the scene at the marina said that he'd had great experiences at this particular facility and the EMT told Jay the same thing, even though she wasn't technically supposed to say anything.

In addition to coming highly recommended, the ER (and hospital in general, we later discovered) was DEAD. Now, this can be a good or a bad thing when it comes to a hospital. On the one hand, empty means staff dedicated to you. On the other hand, empty can mean not enough staff dedicated to the patients that ARE in the hospital. In the case of East Cooper Medical Center, a quiet hospital was a wonderful thing, and we both received care and attention that we were very happy with....

Well, Now I'll Never Be A Leg Model {part 1}

July 28, 2015 by Lindsay 3 Comments

Oh yes, there are multiple parts to a story about leg modeling.

And by that I of course mean Jay Broke His Leg in 2 Places And Now We're In 2 Different Cities Trying To Not Fail At Life And Also Recover At The Same Time On The Busiest Week Of Our Lives.

Let's get some history first before we start down this long road together. As a child, Jay broke his right leg twice, in VERY short succession. He had the cast off for 1 day, did something dumb, and was right back in the OR. So now we know that.

Then, last weekend! We headed down to Sullivan's Island for a beach weekend with Jay's family. Then, the plan was to come back to work this week and go BACK to the beach next weekend for an entire week with my family. Our families rent the same beach house and this year the weeks happened to be back to back. That's key to this story later.

So, on Saturday we woke up and walked on the beach, which is my favorite thing to do almost in the entire world. Then, the family got ready to head to the marina where we'd rented a boat for the entire day. The entire day! On a boat! With 9 family members and 2 kids! Besides obvious family drama jokes everyone was excited and the plan was to boat around the waterway, have lunch on the water, stop at a beach to play, and head home where Jay and I would make fish tacos for dinner.

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Blueberry Coffee Cake

July 23, 2015 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

So, we all know I don't bake because it takes time and that I don't eat a lot of sweets.

Until I got pregnant.

In the first trimester, some of the only things I could stomach were fruit, I think maybe because I was all of a sudden thirsty and a person can only drink so much water? And then in the second trimester the appetite is RIDICULOUS, and to get through the night I usually have 2 servings of dinner, dessert, and THEN fruit. I'm not kidding. Almost every single night unless dinner is a burger or something huge. On nights I don't I wake up famished at 3am and one night I almost whacked Jay awake to make him go get me OJ so I didn't pass out going to the bathroom. This kid is a leech. And also I'm very dramatic when half asleep and have to pee while hungry.

Jay's Opinion on Pregnancy, in Quotes

July 22, 2015 by Lindsay Leave a Comment

Well. After 19 weeks we've got quite a little list going of all the things that are surprising to Jay about pregnancy and impending parenthood, but mostly he just comes up with the most ridiculous things to say. I would also like you to know that the following picture was taken on the exam table at our very first midwife visit with his legs in the air as if there were stirrups, which there weren't.

When I got to around 13 weeks and we started telling people we had to go through the list of places where I work, and one of them was the yoga studio where I work and Jay practices several times a week. We only "told" one or two people, but of course those people would talk to Jay or me and people would overhear and every class we attended for the first few weeks felt like we were "telling" new people. When my friend Julia heard she looked at Jay with what can only be described as disgust and just said

you dog.

Now, if you know Julia you know that she's really quiet, amazingly fit and can stand on her head all the live-long day if asked to, and generally says hi and bye to and from class. She's very nice, but doesn't chat a ton. For some reason, her reaction was hilarious to me.

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