Beyond Frustrated . . .

Back on February 23 the SpringHill Suites in Logan opened up. Most of you know I am the admin for the project managers who ran the construction of this. It was an exciting day for all of us, after 14 months, the hotel was finally open. On that day I was back and forth between the hotel and my office, we are in the same complex. That night my feet were exhausted, I thought to myself "WOW fat so we need to work on this a bit." I took my shoes off and my left foot instantly started to swell and bruise. I don't remember stepping wrong or hurting it in anyway, Troy insisted that it was the boots that I was wore. Whatever!

As we watched 24 that night my foot got more swollen by the minute. But once again I didn't think much of it, it would be fine in the morning. To add insult to injury the next morning we had ice rain and I fell not once but twice walking into work that day! GRRRR! I continued through the week nursing my ankle, but each night it kept getting more swollen. The weekend was awful and by the following Monday (March 2nd) I was loosing circulation in my foot, it was ice cold and white. I panic and called my orthopedic doctor who did my knee surgery a few years ago. No sense in seeing the redneck doc in Tremonton, go straight to the specialist.

So in the last two weeks I have had X-rays that show no broken bones, an MRI that shows pockets of fluid and so much swelling that my joints are started to leak due to the pressure, but really no other damage, I have been on a heavy dosage of steriods for seven days to shock my system and help the swelling, to no avail, and then had blood work done to see if I had gout, an infection or several other issues I can't pronounce, just to have the blood work come back as normal! Does this look NORMAL to you?


Now I am not a skinny girl, but I have always had cute ankles and this is NOT cute! So for the time being I am in a boot for the next three weeks to keep the pressure off of my ankle to try and control the swelling. I go back the first week in April to see what happens next. So now I am just telling everyone I have an alien disease because I am tired of the "are you freakin' kidding me" look everyone gives me when I tell them I don't know what I did. It takes special talent to trip on flat surfaces, and I have that special talent!