Owwww!

So this is not one of those fun posts with pictures of my boys. Its a health update and a call to pray!

Sunday night I tripped and fell at my sister's place in Carman. They have this great new hottub with these LED lights, but outside the tub is the 'black abyss'. I was bringing Luca to Tony in the hottub, and fell into a 1 foot gap. At that time I focused my attention on what I believed to be a broken toe. My foot immediately was swollen and bruised. The next day the pain was quite bad, and a trip to the ER confirmed a break clean through. I had started to notice increasing pain in my calf at this point, but thought it was just a light sprain from falling. I also had some cuts on the knee.

By Wednesday I realized that my toe was much better, but my calf was so bad I could hardly walk. I got in with my GP and he immediately ordered an ultrasound (as a precaution, so he said)

The next day at the ultrasound, the tech wouldn't even let me leave the hospital until he had paged my doctor. My ultrasound showed I had a blood clot! I thought obese people and very old people had blood clots. Turns out a severe trauma to the leg can result in a blood clot.

Right now the pain is the worst in the morning. I woke up and cried last night, because I got up to go to the bathroom and my leg cramped so badly. My mid day I can limp around, but I am in constant pain. I can compare it to those cramps you get in your calf in the middle of the night that just won't let go and leave your adrenaline pumping!

I am supposed to keep my leg up above my head for 20 hours per day and will be monitored by ultrasound. Should this clot not resolve within a week, I will have to receive blood thinners in hospital.

Please pray for my quick recovery. I am getting depressed sitting all day. My boys are fighting non-stop because they know I can't intervene. It's a zoo and I feel bad for lying in bed and screaming at them to stop!! ahhh!....