Hip Adventure!

Do not worry my blog family! I am alive but due to my computer acting funny for a week and then a hiccup with my hip that I will tell you about shortly I got behind on my posting!

But never fear! I am back and have a good amount of catching up to do including finishing our London trip! So return back everyday because I will have a new post up every day up into the first week or so for June!

Now on to the hip madness!

If you are wondering why I posted a photo of my hip please don't be alarmed, I'm not trying to share my upper thigh with everyone! For most of you, you won't be able to see the swelling but trust me, it was horribly swollen! So bad in fact that only a few pairs of my pajamas and the ten of my old,before garment underwear could fit. Which I HATED not being about to wear my garments!

My doctor had me go into the hospital over night to get an x-ray, ultrasound, CT scan, MRI all of the hip, some labs including double blood cultures, and then I had to be put under slightly to have three huge pockets of fluid drained and then that fluid was sent to have tests done on it.

The swelling has gone down but the pain is the same and sadly is much, much worse then I want it to be. Sometimes the pain is just as bad as if I had just had surgery, so I'm still on pain meds that I'm not to happy about.

Last all my test results came back and I have a crack in my pelvis on the left crest, a hairline fracture in my left femur (both of which look about a month old and is slightly healing), a infection to the tissues around the hip, and my body is trying to reject my replacement.

So the treatment for this is almost complete bed rest, pain meds, nausea meds, steroids, antibiotics, muscle relaxers, and anti rejection meds. I will be on those for two weeks and then I will see my doctor again and I have the tests reran and then we will go from there.

My amazing husband has been beyond wonderful during all of this! He is truly amazing! He gave me one of the sweetest blessing and I know in the end everything will be okay!

That is what is going on right now and when more comes up I will let you all know! Thank you so, so much for all of your thoughts and prayers! I love you all!

Now remember to come back daily to see all the other things we have been up to!