Wanderlust

Surgery

I wish I could properly explain how busy we've been the past couple of months. Things seem to be moving at light speed, and we've just been trying to keep everything in order. As an example fo the craziness, two months ago Kaz went to Phoenix on a business trip from Tuesday through Thursday. I then had to go on a business trip to San Diego on Wednesday through Thursday at the same time. Jesse our babysitter watch Owen overnight. We're so busy that our schedules overlapped without warning.

Anyways, 5 weeks ago my left pinky and the side of my ring finger went numb for no good reason. And it didn't go away. I went to the doctor which referred me to a neurologist to do a nerve test on my arm. He shocked and sticked me with a needle and determined that I had a pinched Ulnar nerve in my elbow. Another referral to a Orthopedic surgeon confirmed the diagnosis. That doctor used words like, "I feel scared for you", "I'd like to at least make sure you have some feeling to prevent hurting the pinky", and " there is no guarantee getting full feeling back". Needless to say, I said how soon can we schedule surgery?

Yesterday I went in for surgery to move the nerve (which is that nerve you feel when you hit your funny bone, in this case it isn't very funny) from around the elbow to the side of it. They cut a 4-6" slash in my arm to get to it, although I haven't seen the scar because I have to wear a bandage wrap for 2 weeks to help it heal. The cut into the muscle a little bit, so it hurts when I move my elbow, but I got full use of my hand, wrist and shoulder.

Today it hurts pretty bad, and my hydro codeine makes me feel funny. They actually gave me 40 pills to use every 4 hours. That is like 6 days of constant pills! I'm definitely not going to be using them all. I'm going to only use it sparingly if at all after today.

So add this to another crazy thing that is making our lives interesting and busy. Next up, at work I have a major product delivery and customer meeting next week that is months in the making, and Kaz gets to go to Phoenix the week after for a full 5 days! Looks like I will be a single dad for a week. What is going to be next?