Month: July 2019

Y’all we are in the thick of GA summer here and OMG it’s HOT!!!! My girls have had swim lessons for 6 weeks now and the final day was this last Thursday. Well, they’ve also been allowing family to join in and free swim on the final day.

Because of my ankle troubles I haven’t been able to do any water activities with the girls for 3 weeks. So they of course asked me to join free swim time since I’m in a much simpler brace now. I was super hesitant not due to my ankle, but because I’d have to put on a swimsuit!!!! I’ve been on the couch resting my ankle for almost a month and definitely feeling super fluffy. I didn’t think long about it though because my kids won’t remember the fluff. They’ll remember the time mommy went swimming with them!!!

So for this particular time I found my most modest suit that covered as much “fluff” as I could and went for it! What impressed me more is the amount of parents that got in too. The lessons were 2 week sessions, so this is the 3rd free swim/family swim and the first time I saw more then one parent get in. I honestly wanted to tell them all they rocked! However, I’d had a very excited 2 year old who’d been hyped up by her sisters saying she was gonna get to swim too. So I found a spot for our bag and we all jumped in for our free swim time!

Was anyone else paying attention to my body or my swimsuit? I don’t know because I was focused on my girls and their fun! So my word of wisdom is to stand tall and go have fun with the kids! They won’t be little long and wouldn’t you rather them remember you doing stuff with them, then sitting in the sidelines?!?!?

photo by Heather Ford

Y’all after all the fighting to get any information about what I’ve done to my ankle I’m so happy to find out it’s not the worst case scenario! I tore the two tendons on the outside of my ankle and have tendinitis in the top of my foot. While this still isn’t just a bad sprain, which honestly would have been best case, this is better then a full tear or fracture.

So now I wait for a referral to get physical therapy to help build up the tendons strength again and I get to sport a much less clunky support. They switched me to a ankle brace instead of the boot featured in my funky socks post. I could still use some cute socks so I may just buy some lower cut ones 😉 Overall, I’m glad to have an answer it took 2.5 weeks of fighting to get them though. And I’m so thankful it’s not worse and that I’d have to possibly fight more. So thankful for this small weight on my shoulders to be gone. Answers mean progress and I can move on from my injury!

I also want to mention after all the fighting I switched my care to a whole different team in the clinic I have to use too!!! Had to go for an appointment just to get results of my ankle, but it allowed me to meet the new doc I’ll be working with and her nurse. Hopefully, this will help me get better care in the future!

Keep fighting your fights!!!!

In a continued effort to put myself as a priority I ordered myself some fun and kinda funky socks to wear under this “boot” I’m in until they figure out what’s wrong with my ankle. My husband gave me some of his taller white socks to use under this thing, but man they weren’t comfortable and def not cute. See the below pic, NOT cute!!!

So I hopped on Amazon and found this  6 pack of knee high socks and with 2 day Prime shipping I’m rocking some awesome new socks. These honestly are more comfy and even though I’m the only one who can see they are much cuter and make me feel better!

These awesome socks were only $15 and with free prime shipping I’ve got a cute hidden secret in my boot! Treat yourself to some fun socks if it helps make you feel better! I know it helped me bring a smile to my face while stuck in this boot.

Something that’s been a common thread in discussions I’ve had lately is to be sure and take care of myself, get the care I need and to not lose my voice! Sometimes in our lives we lose ourselves and it’s not always a good thing when it happens.

I recently had some medical issues and while I do have insurance that’s normally good, the care this round hasn’t been. I’ve had to fight just to get test results and then fight to get more tests because the results didn’t tell what’s wrong. Then to make matters worse I had a new completely unrelated incident where the same treatment started. This time being worse because I might have broken a bone or torn the tendons and I still can’t get the clinic to do anything. I had to fight to get an appointment just for them to agree I needed more testing to determine damage. This all after I’d spent hours in ER and was told by them it was possibly fractured and got put in temporary splint and a referral to ortho, but they kicked back the referral without an MRI. They then said they couldn’t request it since I wasn’t a patient yet and ER said they couldn’t because I was already released. And I couldn’t get an appointment til 3 days later and the MRI wasn’t scheduled for another week later. I’m hoping the results come quick once test is done but I won’t hold my breath. I’ll just call and email until someone tells me something.

I’ve said all this to show what I’ve fought against just in last two weeks, the trouble before that’s worse. I’ve had to fight for answers and you should fight too! If you know something is wrong do what you have to in order to get an answer. I had to crutch myself down to the clinic with my 3 girls in tow to get my answers. It wasn’t easy but when they wouldn’t respond to the messages I’d left I had no choice. They talk about trying to stay with your primary care doc and keep continuity of care, but when they don’t follow up with patients it’s not possible. So I’m fighting! I saw the patient advocate at the hospital who had me write a formal complaint too. I doubt it’ll fix the problems, but they wanted a formal complaint to be on file that things aren’t right.

So now I sit back and wait to find out what’s going on with both my problems. When the next tests are done though I will continue my fight to find out the answers so I can move forward! This is just one of the fights I’m currently battling, but currently the most important as I need to know what’s wrong to move forward with treatment. This girl can’t be chasing her kids with a possible break for long 😉