Matching Boo Boos

So mommy and Gigi officially have matching boo boos. When Georgia was 18 months old she had foot surgery to remove an extra bone in her left foot. And last monday I had surgery on my left foot to remove a sesmoid bone that had died. YES died! Here is how it happened, cause I know you have to be wondering how a bone just dies.

As women we know that pregnancy changes us emotionally and physically forever. Who would have thought it could have caused bones in your body to die?! Well thats what happened. When I was prego with Lorelei I carried her only in the belly. I never really gained weight anywhere else. Which is great for weight loss after the pregnancy but not for someone with very high foot arches. Since I already had high arches it means I put too much pressure on the balls of my toes. And then add to that 55 lbs in the belly tips me forward even more. So, I started having bad pain in my 7th month of pregnancy. I just thought it was a normal prego pain that would go away when the baby came. I also thought it was due to wearing heels at work and flip flops and just not being good to my feet. After Lorelei was born I started working out like crazy to get the weight off so that the pain would stop. It never did. Fast forward 6 months and I finally went to a doctor. He did some tests and determined that the sesmoid bone (which is one of two small bones that sits within the tendon under the ball of your big toe and helps you to push off when walking or running) had died. What happened was that the pressure from the weight caused inflamation to the tendon causing the blood supply to the bone to be cut off. hence...dead bone. I was shocked. never heard of such a thing. We tried everything to get it back. CPR! ok just kidding. I wore one of those big ugly boots for a few weeks....nope. medication....nope....very expensive orthodics....nope. So only one thing left. surgery. I was terrified. I cried. I considered just living with the pain. But that was not an option. I cant walk without pain. No running. No nothing. and as we all know with two small kids this wasnt going to work.

So, off to surgery I went. The pain after surgery it wasnt bad. It wasnt what people kept telling me. What WAS bad was seeing the incision yesterday at my 10 day appt. The doctor told me the incision would be MAYBE an inch long. yeah right! more like 3 inches! I cried when the nurse cut the bandage off. It looked so bad. blood. so much dried stuff I couldnt even see stitches! it was sooo bad. but its getting better.

So when all is said and done Gigi and I will have matching scars. To prove its bad below is a picture. HOWEVER LET THIS BE YOUR WARNING. IF YOU DONT DO WELL WITH BLOOD CLICK OFF THIS PAGE AND DONT FINISH READING THIS BLOG.

Online shopping = BIG GRINS

So since Im on bedrest for awhile I have occupied my time with SHOPPING. Online Shopping. I am seriously enjoying this. We have finally narrowed down a bed we want for our master bedroom (its only taken 4 years!). I have printed beach pictures for Gigi's bedroom. I have only been planning this for a year. Now I have all the time in the world. I also ordered this awesome decal for Loreleis nursery wall. I think its sad we havent completed the nursery for her but we just never had time. And since she was our second girl the nursery was already girlish. We didnt need to change anything. But we want her to have her own space so we have tried to make some changes.

Here is a picture of the decal that will go on her wall.

9 months and surgery

Well Im a bad bad blogger. Shame on me. Oh well, Im sure everyone will get over it. Quickly.

My Lorelei Rose is 9 months already. Where does the time go? She learned to crawl, pull up and cruise all in her 8th month. This leads me to my other snippet of info about her...she is lazy. Lord is she ever lazy. She knew how to crawl for a longggg time before she decided to do it. Im convinced of it. Thats why everything came at once. She waited awhile but then all the sudden just took off! Now she is just on the go. She never once stops. She is literally into everything. I call her the carpet picker cause she literally will find the smallest piece of crap on the floor and before I know it, its in her mouth. gross I know. We vaccuum ALOT since she has been in our lives. She will also force us to be more neat people. If you know us at all we are not the most organized people. But since Lorelei likes to grab and constently mess with stuff it forces us to pick up more around the house during the day.

Anyways, more about her new goings on....she had more professional photos taken. Poor second baby, she hasnt had pics taken since she was born. opps. I know other people are guilty of this as well but I promise to be better. Gigi had pics taken at newborn, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and a year. poo. Im so sad about that. But at least Im aware. I will be better. :)

She FINALLY got her first tooth.The bottom left. FINALLY. only took 8 freaking months. I told Tom I was very worried about her. She was so angry all the time. She never smilied. she would just cry cry cry. Very unhappy baby. The second that tooth popped through...AHHHH MOMENT! My sweet Lorelei Rose was back. I was so thrilled. I was trying to get used to having a mad, unhappy baby. I just couldnt. and thank God, now I dont need to. :) Love her. She also got her top tooth and is working on the other top tooth. I can see it through the gums but it hasnt popped yet. There is also the little white dot of the second bottom tooth.

Here are some pics of the girls photo shoot.

Now for the surgery part. So thanks to Miss Lorelei, a bone in my foot died. Nice huh? I thought so. I have very high arches in my feet and when I was pregnant with Lorelei I carried her only in my belly. Nice for weight loss only not so much for my feet. Too much tilting forward caused inflamation in tendon of my big toe. well apparently there are two small bones called Sesmiod bones in that tendon. They help you push off when running or walking. who knew!? So apparently what happened is the inflamation was so bad in that tendon that it caused blood flow to stop to one of those small bones. There is no helping it. We tried meds, an ugly boot, expensive orthodics. everything. nothing worked. bone is dead dead. So off to surgery I went. Surgery was yesterday and went really well. The Dr. told tom that when he got in there he realized the bone was very fragmented. When bone dies it will start to just fall apart after awhile. This is why there was more pain towards the end. I could barely walk from point A to B. Just walking from my car to my office was pain. When the girls at work and I would go down to the deli downstairs I would make them take the elevator up one floor cause I just couldnt walk that much. And as everyone knows that just really doesnt work with two kids. I wanted to be able to enjoy my summers and wear flip flops and go barefoot ( as anyone from the south can understand, we dont wear shoes in the summer!) and go to the zoo and be able to chase the girls. I havent been able to workout since pretty much right after having Lorelei. The pain was just too much. Forget about heels. those were out of the question since it hyperextended the toe. That doesnt work. So thats that. The bone has been removed and we are working on the pain cause the nerve block is wearing off. Boooo.

One funny thing that happened coming out of surgery was after I was finally awake the nurse asked me if I had children. I answered, yes two girls. She then asked me who was taking care of them which I thought was a tad odd. I replied my mother in law had them and that we were very lucky to have a lot of family in the area to help out. She said, well thats a relief. again...ODD. She then proceeded to say "well when you were first waking up the first thing you said was, Where are my babies! we were worried that you may have lost a child and had relived that during your surgery and being under. We thought this might be a bad coming out of it for you. That it might get emotional." Nope! Just missed my girls!

Well the meds are wearing off so I will write more later.

8 Months already!

I can not believe my Lorelei Rose is almost 8 months. Where does the time go? She is the cutest darn thing ever. So chunky and cute. She has the biggest cheeks and I just love to pinch them. Im sure she just loves that. She absolutly loves her big sister. Whenever Gigi walks in the room she just lights up. At almost 8 months she is almost crawling. Seriously any minute now she will take off. She does this hilarious thing where she gets up on her tippy toes and hands and is almost in a standing position.

She is trying desperatly to talk. This is obviously months away but she says Mama, (more like mamamamamama) and baba (more like bababababa). She more just screams at everyone and everything. She does have any teeth yet but they have to come soon. She has been teething like crazy.

Here are some recent pictures of my little angel.

I swear she is not dirty in the first one. She literally drooled that much. But how funny is it that she flips her bink around like that. She prefers it that way. hehe

The second picture is Lorelei on the night before Christmas Eve. Aint she sweet?!