Let the Countdown Begin!

Hello folks! Sorry it's been so long, I lost my blogging head somewhere, but now I'm screwing it back on!

Nice pic of my feet for you!

So, we're officially 5 weeks and 1 day away until my planned surgery day!! (July 7th!) I'm a mixture of excited and nervous. I'm excited for the prospect of my foot being straight and being able to walk properly on it... But nervous about the whole... Surgery, potential infections, 6 weeks of being a cast... That stuff. But I'm trying to keep excited about it and not worry too much about it yet, as we're still a few weeks away. 

Basically, as you can see in this picture, my foot doesn't point the right way anymore, and it's impossible for me to move it, so walking on it is gradually destroying my ankle/ everything around my ankle joint, and it really hurts to walk on... So my lovely surgeon is going to clean up the inside of the joint and put a rod and some nails in there to fuse my ankle joint and my subtalar joint, so I won't be able to move it anymore, but it won't be stuck in a silly position, so it won't hurt any more (fingers crossed - assuming everything goes well!) 

Then I've got a wonderful long recovery to look forward to with approx. 6 weeks in a full cast (non weight-bearing) and approx. 6 more weeks in a 'moon boot' (weight-bearing) and then AT LEAST 3 months until a full recovery, walking etc. BUT, what that does mean (as I counted in my diary) is that I could potentially be walking properly before we hit 2018! Which is crazy, but it'd be awesome if that is the case! 

I'm seeing the anaesthetist on the 13th June to check everything's going to be okay for my general anaesthetic, so I'm readying myself to be prodded and poked. Hopefully that all goes well and then we've just got to prepare for the surgery!!! So, if anyone has any tips/advice, feel free to comment and share them with me! We've got some things planned/getting sorted to make life easier, but I am not looking forward to being stuck in a cast for 6 weeks!!

My first items on Etsy!

So that's all of that, now I know I promised I'd write shorter blogs from now on - I lied! Mwahaha! I will try to from now on though... But while we're here I thought I'd let you know I decided to start my own little business venture! I've opened up an Etsy store - which only has 3 necklaces in so far, but I will be improving/expanding it shortly! I plan on this being something I can do while I'm stuck in a cast, as I can pretty much cross stitch anywhere! Woo! Go visit me at: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/GeronimoCraftsUK and like I say, there'll be more soon... I'm getting there! (did I plug that subtly enough?)

Right! I'm going to go, and I promise to try and follow up on my word of blogging more, and shorter blogs....

TTFN, ta ta for now!