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Name: Carrie
Country: United States
State: North Carolina
Metro: Charlotte
Birthday: 8/25/1979
Gender: Female
Interests: VitaminWater. Friends (actual people, not the show). NASCAR. Kahne. Kenseth. Sadler. Labonte. Stewart. Kenny Wallace. Diamondbacks. Cubs. Red Sox. Nordstrom. Juicy Couture. Shopping. Shoes. American Eagle. The Office. Family Guy. Veronica Mars. Gilmore Girls. Scrubs. American Idol. Carrie Underwood. George Strait. Dierks Bentley. Brad Paisley. Rascal Flatts. Coldplay. Kelly Clarkson. NSync. Redneck Yacht Club. KFC/Taco Bell. Sonicrific Nights. Deer. Squirrels. Koalas. Hawaii. Lighthouses. Waterfalls. Coke. Baja Blast Mt. Dew. Bostonian Accents. Sweet Tea. Bijangles. Movies. Reading. Travel.
Industry: Retail
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AIM:  Careoppie
Yahoo:  cbear825
Member Since:
7/15/2005
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| I'm sure most of you are still hoping for Hawaii stories, and maybe someday I'll get around to telling them, but for now ... I need to just vent. There's a lot going on and I'm feeling a bit frazzled and overwhelmed at the moment.
I've been back at work since August 19th. It's going well, although it's a bit of a struggle to get around. I'm very much dependent on people, and it drives me crazy, because I'm stubborn and proud. But the routine of work has been nice to get back into, even if there are some days where my leg would much rather have me stay in bed.
I got a walking boot last Monday. While, naturally, this is a very exciting step in my healing process, there hasn't been a lot of walking actually happening. Obviously, this makes sense because my leg has been set in one position basically for 8 weeks. But, the act of regaining movement and strength in my ankle, foot, and leg is a very slow and painful process. They said I'd likely be able to walk without the aid of crutches in 2 weeks, but, as the end of week 1 nears, I'm only walking with 1 crutch mainly 50% of the time (though I noticed today that it is getting somewhat easier, though not very). I refuse to push myself too hard, though -- I don't want to tear a tendon or ligament or anything like that, so if it hurts, I stop. I will say, though, that it occasionally feels better to walk without the boot -- just don't tell my doctor that. Heh.
I will be starting physical therapy asap. My plans to start it this week were derailed somewhat, because my paternal grandmother passed away Friday afternoon. My dad told me last Sunday that she wouldn't last the year, and instead she didn't last the week. But she's no longer suffering, and she died at home, in her sleep, holding Grandpa's hand -- I find that rather beautiful. That's how I'd prefer to go, not to be morbid. So, Michael and I are driving to Lima, Ohio (my birthplace) tomorrow after his classes for the funeral, and driving back to Charlotte on Wednesday. 20+ hours in a car over the course of 3 days. My leg is going to love me. But, I am somewhat happy to get to see my parents, and my sister, and my niece. And my dad's side of the family will get to meet Michael, so that will be nice, too. I just wish the circumstances were different.
I just feel like there is so much going on, and I'm struggling to keep up. Between work, the funeral, physical therapy/doctor's appointments, the ongoing insurance stuff, trying to buy a car, and the normal day-to-day life stuff ... I'm just overwhelmed. I'm so bone-weary exhausted every night after work, and I can only imagine how much worse that's going to be when I start physical therapy.
I just kind of need a break. But I guess I'll just look at it as a learning experience, and test my limits.
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Wedding Album
I'll post honeymoon pictures soon, and do an actual update soon as well. I went back to work this week so right now I am exhausted. *sigh*
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| Although, I'm pretty sure not many people use a blue cast as their "something blue." But I am!
I had wanted something that wouldn't clash too horribly with my dress, so I went with the only remotely pastel color they offered. (My parents, by the way, are just blown away that you can get colors on casts. I am amused.) And so that is my sexy blue hard cast. I had them cut it back far enough on my foot so that I can still get a pedicure pre-wedding. Haha!
Everything is healing nicely, although the break itself hasn't quite started to fuse itself back together, which means no walking for 3 more weeks. I'm somewhat disappointed by that, but we've made arrangements on the Islands for crutches and we're traveling with my wheelchair, so we should be alright. I get the walking boot the day after I go back to work, which is convenient.
I have a copy of one of the x-rays from yesterday. It's pretty trippy. I have 2 rods and 8 screws in my ankle/leg. My surgeon looked very proud of himself, haha. But he's happy with the healing to this point, which is nice. I have an incision on both sides of my leg. I had both staples and stitches, and they took the staples out yesterday. Thank goodness, too, because they were the culprit of 99% of the itching in the previous cast.
Alright, enough injury talk. Michael's parents have gotten on the wedding bandwagon, and I think they're trying really hard to make this as nice of a memory as possible under the circumstances. They tracked down a wedding coordinator on the Big Island, so we now have the Gump Room at Bubba Gump's reserved for dinner/reception, and a small cake as well. I was fine not having either of those before, but I'm equally just as happy that we will be having them now. We're also going to see about getting some flowers (a lei or something) to decorate my wheelchair, and probably a small bouquet of ivory/blue flowers to tie in the cast.
Tomorrow we'll start packing in earnest! Yay!
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| I found out today that I'm getting $4445.89 for my car. I was really, really hoping for $4000, so, naturally, I am fairly pleased with this information. I was also pleasantly surprised to learn that I will receive the money for my car settlement within 2 days of the adjuster receiving my title, which I signed over, notarized, and overnighted this afternoon. We are hoping to receive the check by this weekend so we can deposit it into a high-yield savings account to earn interest while I wait to be able to drive and buy a car. ;)
I think I'll just go ahead and put $4000 down on a new car (I want a Saturn Astra - my html isn't working, sorry), and finance the rest, naturally. But when I get the rest of my settlement money (lost wages, pain and suffering, etc) I will likely use some of that to make my initial payments (the rest will be used to pay off any remaining credit card balances if I have any post-wedding). Yippee.
I'm getting my disability payments on a weekly basis, so that's nice.
Hard cast on Thursday! Yay!
Wedding next Wednesday! Double yay! I made my hair/makeup appointment at the resort spa today. I'm going to have my hair half up/half down with curls and orchids. | | |
| As Moe pointed out, it's been almost a week. I suppose an update is due.
Although, I don't really have a ton to update. I am in little to no pain for the most part. Every once in a while my leg will twitch or get a weird kink in it for a few minutes, but it rarely lasts for more than 10 minutes. I've been alternating between keeping my leg propped up and iced and letting it down as well. It doesn't feel too bad for the most part, it's pretty much the cast that's annoying.
I've actually started sleeping a little better at night. For a while I was just sleeping every few hours during the night, but the past few nights I've slept for between 5-7 hours at a stretch. It's funny, though, because now I feel a bit more tired throughout the day. Oh well. I guess I'll just have to get back onto a schedule.
I spoke to the insurance company today, so the ball is officially rolling there. Our adjuster is nice, and a Nordstrom shopper haha, so we chatted some about the fabulous shoe department. Good to know I've got a friend there, I guess. Seriously though, his coverage is pretty decent, but she's a little worried on the bodily injury front, which is frustrating and means that Allstate might have to pick up the slack if I go over the $30,000 threshold. The good news is I'll be compensated fully for lost wages, medical expenses, the loss of my car, and pain and suffering. No idea how they calculate pain and suffering but I told her we're getting married in 2 weeks, so, maybe that will come into play somewhat. I'll know by Monday if the car is a total loss, but I'm going to just assume that it is. *sigh* I'll have to speak to a new adjuster in the next few days because of my surgery, but at least the ball is rolling.
As far as the wedding goes, we're going to call US Airways to see about upgrading to first class for our flights. That will be our wedding/honeymoon splurge now, to make life a bit easier for me, travel-wise. The good news is we can travel fairly easily with the wheelchair, since there's room on the plane for it, and it doesn't count as baggage. Nifty, eh? We've got a photographer and we're like thisclose to booking the videographer. We've had to cancel some of the snorkel trips we had planned, because naturally I won't be able to swim. But it should still be a good trip. I'll definitely get to relax some. And we might go back for a short trip soon to get to do all the snorkel stuff we wanted to do.
Oh, and my leave of absence was officially approved today. Yippee! | | |
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