Surgery #3

.....I am having an ankle fusion!

After meeting with Dr Senall, I not only decided on an ankle fusion, but I also decided to continue my care with him. I think Dr. Arndt is a great guy, but when I had two other doctors tell me I have too many risk factors that would cause an ankle replacement to fail, I need to go with who makes me informed. Dr. Senall was very straightforward with me. Like my second opinion, he said that my tibia would not hold the replacement hardware.  The turn around time of this is pretty quick. I am having this done on the 19th of September. Just over a week away. I'm pretty lucky actually. The hospital is making special arrangements to let Dr. S operate on a day he normally doesn't. If this wasn't possible, I would have to wait until October 8th.

Aaron turned me into a Packers supporter

In the next week, I need to do some major grocery shopping, tons of laundry, clean the apartment, see my friends, go on a shopping trip to look for bridesmaid dresses with my sister, and of course have a date night with Aaron. We try to go out once a week, whether it's going out to eat or ordering a pizza and relaxing at home. What ever it is, it has to involve neither of us cooking. It also always includes fro-yo.

Outside of my foot issues, the last few weeks have been pretty good. Aaron and I had a very busy weekend! We celebrated our first anniversary (clearly what a crazy year it has been!), Aaron ran the Chicago half-marathon, football started (not that I really care), his friend Connie was in town from NYC, and I went to a taping of Windy City Live (a Chicago talk show) and Giada De Laurentiis was on!

Had a casual dinner at Maggianos, and was presented with this cheesecake

He's been training all summer for this. I'm very proud!!!

Yes, I geeked out the whole time.