Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

And I thought The Ring gave me nightmares… Michael Jackson gives me the serious creeps these days. Brrrrrrr.

Woohoo, now I have yet another thing wrong with me! I have Trochanteric Bursitis in my hip. It’s ok though, because it means I get to sit around a lot and make hub do stuff for me.

About that vacuum cleaner boobie thing – I don’t need it! They say I’m healing so well that it’s not necessary. Yay!

Went to the Houston International Quilt Show today, and walked around for about 2.5 hours, and I didn’t see even half of what was there. I did buy 22 yards of fabric for under $100, which is way cool.

Princess Leia has a new message.

Skip this post if you don’t want any spoilers at all about The Ring (but they’re not major spoilers).

The movie showing was at 7:35. About 20 minutes into the movie is when they show the video for the first time. Our caller ID shows a call from “Unknown, 555-555-5555” at 7:55. I told hub that if someone left a message saying “7 days” on the voicemail, that I was likely to do something – although I don’t know what.

We went to see The Ring tonight. It’s scary. Really, really scary. It’s like if Kubrick and Hitchcock got together with Shyamalan to make a film. It’s the creepiest movie I’ve seen in years. If you like scary movies, you have to go see it.

There were two gay guys behind us who screamed every time there was a scary part, and one would jump so hard he’d kick our chairs. It was rather amusing. And then as major plot points were revealed, one of them would say “Oh. My. GAWD.”

Hub sez he’s got to research the best bullet for killing zombies. Do they have to be silver, do you think?

On request from JenBen, here’s the synopsis on the boob thing.

10/01 – discover a little bump on the bottom of my left boob. Since I’d just had a baby, I thought it might be a plugged duct or something.

3/02 – bump still there. I ask my OB about it who sends me to see a surgeon. Get a mammogram and an untrasound which show a nodule. Surgeon says there’s less than 5% chance it’s malignant, suggests we wait 6 months and see how it looks then.

early 9/02 – mammogram, ultrasound, etc. Bump still there, surgeon suggests removing it in a procedure called excisional biopsy. I have the surgery on the 10th. Pathology says tissue is benign.

mid 9/02 – the wound isn’t healing well. There’s necrotic tissue in the middle and dying tissue all around the incision.

early 10/02 – surgeon suggests that I have another surgery to remove the necrotic tissue, clean up the edges of the wound, and bring them together. I agree and surgery is done.

mid 10/02 – some of the steristrips start to come off and I notice the incision is repoening. There’s a dime sized hole in the bottom of the scar that looks deep. I call the doctor at night and he tells me to come in the next morning. Later that evening I put the 1 year old in bed and got tangled up in the blanket and crib rail and feel a sudden pain. The next morning the wound is about 2.5 inches tall and 1.5 inches wide and so deep I literally expect to see my rib bones.

The doctor said that we need to have a wet to dry dressing, which involves packing the wound with saline soaked gauze and changing it daily. I go in to Wound Care every day to have this done.

Last week – the surgeon said I’m a good candidate for a Vacuum Assisted Closure and asks Wound Care to evaluate me for that purpose. They concur, and tomorrow I will hopefully be fitted with my little portable suction device. It will hopefully greatly reduce healing time.

That’s all so far! I’ll post more when I know it.

Oh hey, here I am. Where the hell have I been?

We were supposed to go hunting this weekend but ended up not going because it’s flooding at the ranch. Again. Some more. This is the third time in the last 4 months.

The older daughter turned 3 this week. I can’t believe how quick she’s growing up.

Next week they’re going to put a vacuum cleaner thing on my boob. Film at 11.