WARNING- icky, but awesome pictures.

So, while Phill’s parents are out of town, we have been taking care or watering their plants and his dads plants at the greenhouse every couple of days. On Sunday, we decided to go and take care of the greenhouse because we were working crazy hours this week.

While we were there, I was playing around with the motorcycle/ dirt bike that they have there. I asked Phill to teach me to ride it. We were having a lot of fun with it. I was in the front, and Phill was behind me. We were doing wheelies and everything. Anyways, after riding for a little while, we decided to ride back to the jeep and head home. We made a sharp turn in some long grass… and guess what... my foot decided to be conquered by a tree stump. It really didn’t hurt that bad at first. But I looked down at my foot, and saw blood and bone and tendons, and I flipped out. Choice words came screaming out. Phill felt so bad and carried me to the car and put a towel over my foot so I couldn’t look at it. I went into shock and my bp dropped really low. That didn’t help things because I felt like I was going to pass out and throw up everywhere until they had me laying down with antibiotics flowing through an IV and my foot nice and numb.

No health insurance, 18 (I think) stitches, antibiotics, and fractured bones later… I’m laying here for the next two weeks with my foot up. Then after that, I’m hobbling around on crutches for a couple months, and then after that I get to perhaps go back to work, and gain my leg muscles back.

They have me on painkillers that help my foot feel better.. but I can’t seem to keep food down.. and I never go 5 minutes without feeling nauseous as heck. Ugh.

I’m just so thankful to have Phill. He has carried me everywhere. He moderates my medicine intake to make sure I’m taking it on time. He wakes up at all hours of the night to help me move, or pee, or get medicine. He even set up a place for me in our spare room by the tv, with all I need right there while he’s at work. J He’s so good to me.

This is my foot when we first got to the ER

Phill helping the nurse clean out my wound correctly.
They found rocks, grass, seeds and everything in there. Ew.

This is when Phill and the nurse got done cleaning it out.

Now swollen and stitched up.