For those of you who haven’t seen it, it is a must. You don’t need to see the extended version, which is three hours, but it’s definitely worth the extended scenes. The special effects of this movie are amazing and I am in love with it, even though I normally don’t like those types of movies and initially I only saw it because my boyfriend wanted to. I ended up loving it and seeing it twice in theatres, and then pre-ordered the director’s cut from Amazon. I’m so excited!

My dad had a few people over, mostly family, and we had rented tables and chairs. It was a smashing success, however I felt useless not being able to help. My brother and sister-in-law did so much of the work. Shortly after getting my stitches out, I started walking a little bit around the apartment without crutches, mostly on the side of my foot that wasn’t operated on. Because I wanted to help with the party, setting up and everything, I walked on it quite a bit because there wasn’t much room for crutches. As well, when all the guests came, I didn’t use my crutches and instead walked. It was tough because I wanted to talk to everybody, but so many of the guests were standing in random places which I couldn’t do. After a few minutes I sat on the couch and just talked to whoever came in there.

It was good to see everyone, but trying to explain my foot story over and over again became a bit tedious. Since I’m not on painkillers anymore I was able to drink a little bit, and I was all dressed up. It was a good night, but I certainly was in pain by the end of the night.

The next morning we went out for breakfast and I used my crutches without putting any weight on my foot. I had to be careful not to walk much for a couple of days to give my foot a chance to recover a bit.

But it is so hard to use crutches in this heat. We are at the start of another heat wave here, a record-breaking heat wave. And trying to walk outside with crutches? Tough! I can’t wait until I can get rid of them for good.

Today is even worse. I can barely move or type. Every single muscle in my body is just aching, including every arm muscle, the muscles in my good leg, and muscles running down my back. I’ve been taking lots of Robaxacet and using Icy Hot Gel which has been a Godsend, honestly! I seriously had no idea crutches hurt so much though. Ugh.

I won’t be moving again for a while.

I’ve had a pretty steady stream of visitors so far, and some of my best friends were over on Saturday night which was great. My friend Katelyn brought me some pretty flowers, and others have lent me movies and video games. They’ve also brought me yummy food, berries and chocolate and stuff. I still have very little appetite, but it’s slowly coming back as I take less Percocet.

Well I will update again after my dressing change tomorrow.

A couple of days ago some friends and I went hiking at a lake near here and had a picnic. It was so great it made me depressed that I won’t be able to do that any other time this summer. I took a lot of pictures, here is one of the beautiful lake from the top of the mountain:

I’m going to miss out on so much this summer But this surgery is now or never, and it needs to be done.

P.S. Happy Canada Day!

Two weeks til the surgery! I’m getting out and enjoying the beautiful weather while I still can.