two saturday nights in a row?!

working for the corporate retail giant that i do, some of you may already know that i hardly ever get a saturday night off, let alone two consecutive ones.  it's really unheard of.  but its true, i just got home from work, and i'm off by 5 next saturday.  unreal.  good timing too, as next weekend, mike and i celebrate 3 amazing years together!  it's somewhat hard to believe that we've been together 3 years.  on one hand, it often seems like we just started dating.  on the other, it feels like we've known each other our whole lives.  i think these are both good things, a nice balance.  in any case, the 3 actual years together have been some of the best of my life, even with all the craziness that's happened outside of our relationship in my life.  i am quite thankful for him, and i am looking forward to celebrating many, many, many more anniversaries with this particular fella.  he makes me a better person, and he makes me want to be a better person.  i'm a terribly lucky gal.

i had a great conversation this morning with my dear friend, karen, and she reminded me that i haven't given the update on foot status on here yet, so my apologies, dear readers.  i've been a little skattery lately, in addition to working too much.  so, to kill whatever lingering suspense is out there, here is the scoop.  primary doctor called foot/ankle specialist fella to clarify this weird diagnosis.  he then called me to give me said clarification.  i have tendon damage, a bone out of place due to tendon damage, and significant arthritis.  i will likely be getting not-so-foxy arizona brace at some point this week, which i will have to wear for 3 solid months.  after 3 months, if things are not repaired as they should be, i will likely have to have fairly extensive foot/ankle repair surgery.  now, if you are paying attention, this puts us quite close to impending wedding day thing.  so the plan is to wear the dumb brace thing, go back in 3 months, and if they say i need surgery, mike and i get married, go on super fun honeymoon, and then i will have surgery after that.  we're all hoping, however, that dumb brace thing will do what it's supposed to and my body does what it's supposed to and then everything will be cool and the gang and i won't have to go under the knife for the 15th time.  because that's just way too many times to go under the knife.  i'm trying not to look too far ahead, however.  day by day, and we'll just see.  as of the moment, all the rain we've been getting which causes the wonder that is cincinnati humidity is making the day to day quite painful for me.  i'm dy.ing. at work.  i'm usually laying in bed awake for hours in the morning waiting for the pain to mellow enough.  it's not a fun place right now.  none of my docs seem to know if i'm going to be able to work with this brace thing yet, so it's a 'wait and see' game.  we'll find out this week, i guess.  if not, i'm going to be out of work for 3 long months, which would really suck.  let's hope this doesn't happen either, eh?  otherwise, i'm going to be calling people too much and pathetically asking, "so, what'cha doin'?", and nobody wants that, including me.  i try to have standards.  :)

so there's the skinny for all of you who were waiting for me to get my act together.  as soon as i get the stupid brace thing, i promise to take a photo of it and show you just how awful modern healing orthotic devices can be.  in the interim, mike and i are gonna go grab some dinner and hit the town for a little socialization this evening, in what might be my last weekend without the brace for the summer.  boo.  hope you're getting into something fun this weekend, y'all!