December 2007

I feel as though I have nothing to blog about so I am going to post about our December, last year. It was our first December being married so of course we had to plan a lot of fun things. You would think we would have our first real big Christmas Tree, our first Charlie Brown Christmas, some sweet egg nog, but nope, we had other things in mind. We both wanted to have our first "operations." Mine was not really an operation (but it felt like one) and Brighton's was a real operation.
To make a really long story short on December 20th I had a tooth implant. Now for those of you who don't know what that is (because I didn't) it is where they drill a big titanium piece into your jaw in place of a tooth. Months earlier I had one of my BABY teeth become infected and they had to pull it out. So instead of having a big hole in my mouth they put a titanium bar in it's place with a tooth on top of it. And trust me it felt like a surgery. I have never had my wisdom teeth out and so this was pretty huge for me. I cried the entire time. It didn't hurt at all but I was REALLY scared. I came home from my "operation" and was all of the sudden in a lot of pain. None of the medication was working. The bad part about that was the next morning I had to drive Brighton to the Orthopedic center to have a real surgery. I didn't want to be all drugged up and unable to take him to it so I was stressing. At that exact moment one of my neighbors called and offered to make dinner for us one of the nights after Brighton's surgery and I just broke down in tears. I CRIED on the phone! I felt like an idiot. Brighton just stared at me and didn't know what to do. I got off the phone and just sat at the table and cried. Eventually my medicine kicked in and I felt great. I went to bed at seven and got up the next morning at nine, feeling great, and ready to take Brighton to his surgery. That is the end of my story, lame I know but I am not going to school for story telling. :)
So on December 21st Brighton had surgery on his knee. Back in September he hurt his knee really bad playing soccer. I told him to walk it off but when a month later his knee was still swollen and it was popping really loudly he went and saw a doctor. And sure enough he had torn his ACL. So in for surgery he goes. It went great, other then he had to use a cadaver ACL because the other tendon they were going to use was "too weak". Brighton was up on moving on December 24th, despite what the doctor recommended and he has recovered great. He has done approximately 5 days of physical therapy, outside of the physical therapist office, and has been told he is a "miracle healer."
The reason I am posting these stories (other then the fact that I am procrastinating my homework) is that we got some sweet pictures of Brighton after his surgery.

This is a full body picture of him right after he got home. And no he didn't cry like me, he is smiling!
Here is a close up picture just to verify he is smiling.
Here is part of his knee and his foot. I was more interested in his foot because it was really swollen.
Here is another picture of his foot. We called his toes "sausage" toes. This is actually my favorite picture from the whole experience.

And we were so stressed with finals and our "surgeries" that we only got ourselves a small Christmas tree that had lights already on it.

Brighton also convinced me to let him open his Christmas present early so he could at least use it before he was down and out all vacation long. So he got to open his XBox right after finals were done. So our Christmas day was more like a survival day instead of a fun happy go-luck day. It was still great, don't get me wrong, it just did not happen how we had planned. Well here is hoping an surgery free this coming December. I am already thinking ahead. :)

P.S. I just found out the Biggest Loser is on!! AHH my favorite show. My mother called and reminded me!! And she said "They are already crying." If you know me at all you know this is my favorite show. If you didn't know this, by the end of the season you will!! Thanks for letting me post about December, now on to bigger and better things.... The Biggest Loser!!!