Awhile

Kay, I know its been awhile since last I posted, in fact I do believe its been 2 months.

TWO MONTHS?  WHAT?!!

Unbelievable really.  I know my blogs are far from stellar and cutting edge, but I shall try harder for this.

Let me get you up to speed.

My foot, its till sore.  Turns out I did some soft tissue damage and so now that just needs to heal.  The hemotoma is almost gone, as well as the sensitivity in the area..yay.  Now, I just have to deal with swelling and muscle cramps in my arch...boo.  It will come I know it will.  Any time though.  Seriously.  Any. Time.

Secondly, its been a month now that I went to two out of town, out of province weddings.  I was the main photographer for both.  The first wedding was very casual and the bride and groom just told me to 'take pictures', and they, in turn grabbed me when they wanted some pictures of themselves and Aunt Maude or Grandpa Billy etc.  So click click click I went.  Took about 500 from that wedding. 

A week later, a more formal wedding.  This one, the bride and groom had ideas on what they wanted done and where.  They also had a formal wedding, in a church, with a big bridal party and lots of friends and family.  I still have about 800 photos to shuffle through, and went through about 2000 already.  This wedding I took photos for 12 hours and in turn probably already spent over 12 hours at the computer going through the photos.  Sure, there are repeats of photos..like 5 of Uncle Sam, and 3 of the bride and groom's kiss at the reception....hence why it takes time.  Alot don't need any "tweeking"...thankfully.  Not like I do alot of that anyhow..maybe crop, sharpen, and convert from colour to BW..oh and of course convert from RAW to jpeg format.  So it takes time.  One can only do that for so long then they are done..for awhile.

After I got home form my 10 days of working holiday, my mind got all messed up.  During those 10 days of being away...I was in 2 different provinces, 2 different time zones, 5 different beds, 3 different cities/towns, 2 different weddings, 2 different hotels.  Oh and mainly two different modes of transportation..flying and driving.  It was CRAZY..but fun...but quite the mind mess up!!

So, by day 3 at home, in my own bed, after being asleep for awhile, I'd waken in a panic.  Wondering where I was, where my cameras were and how the heck I checked in to `this`hotel.  Sigh.  So I needed to take a few days away from all the photos and get my mind back!!

Here is one photo I took from our second hotel.  We were 32 floors up, facing south west so we got some decent sunset lighting.  Can you recognize this city???

Still

Ok folks, from my last and I was awaiting the results of the Xray, and seems the STILL there is no breaks in said foot.  Doc did say there is soft tissue damage and a hemotoma in my arch.  So, I guess I all the swelling and discolouration is due to the hemotoma.  I don't care..just heal GDI!!  In three weeks I have not one, but two weddings to go and photograph.  I can't do that while on crutches!!  Oh yes, I did get some crutches.

Sigh.  There has been some improvement on my foot.  I apply Voltaren on it 3-4x's a day, wrap the sucker and stay off of it as much as I can, with wiggling the toes and ankle around intermittently through the day.  It still freakin hurts though, and swells like a SOB...Sigh.  It MUST be better soon.  MUST.  Today I soaked it in a warm bath of epsom salts, and eucalyptus, menthol, rosemary oil, and wiggled it around and flexed the toes etc.  Then, I applied some eucaplytus oil on the toe and massaged gently, applied Voltaren on the arch area and top of foot, wrapped it, and then called it a day.  Even my dog looks at my crutches knowing that I need them when I get up and move...crazy.

Ah well, one day I shall no longer write about my foot.  Its gotta be boring by now!!

Tired.

Ok, its been 3 weeks post foot meeting Rock, and Rock winning.

I went back to my doc today, he ordered another x ray, focusing on the 1st metatarsal.  He also told me to stay off said foot as much as possible, yet, he DID NOT give me anything to make such a feat possible.  Did he think I am able to sprout wings and fly around for the next X weeks? So tomorrow..errrr..later today....I will be contacting the local medical loan place, and aquire me some crutches.  Good thing I am smarter than your average boot!!

Needless to say I am tired.  Tired of having a sore foot, tired of not sleeping right due to said sore foot, tired of hobbling around, and putting my back out of whack and most of all tired of out thinking the "professionals".  Good grief.  Now, let's see what xray 2 has to say for itself.

Either A) a break better show so I can get proper treatment and therefore get on with my life, or B) nothing show (which will be the more likely) and my foot heal..like NOW...so I can get on with my life.  Either way works for me..just let's make it concrete, and not so wishy washy.

Healing?

Ok, so its been about 2 weeks now since I chatted about my foot injury.  Nope apparently its not broken, but badly bruised, yay, but also a boo!  Not like I really WANT it to be broke, but from experience, a clean break heals faster, and hurts less than a bruise or in some cases cracks, or bad sprains/strains.  That is what I want..a fast heal time and less pain.

It is still swollen and sore, and very bruised looking.  When I went to the docs, he did NOT tell me to wrap it in a tensor, nor did he advice me to keep off it (and give me crutches), nor, really did he say I need to do anything special.  WTF?  Did he NOT see me NOT have shoes on?  Did he NOT see the freakin huge lump and purple bruising on my foot..right where a shoe would sit?  I mean LIKE REALLY?!  So, its a dam good thing I do have half a brain in my head, and I wrap the sucker.  Mind you, if I'm on my foot for any length of time it swells like a balloon, and my toes become rather sausage like.  I try and wriggle my toes around and flex my foot, and I notice tons of tingling and numbing in my middle toes, and it really hurts to flex my big toe as it pulls and stretches the plantar tendon..which is the bruised object in question.  Le sigh.

At present I am kinda able to put an old shoe on said foot.  It needs to be wrapped though, and I put some desensitizing stuff on the bruise and lump prior to wrapping so it wouldn't hurt AS MUCH!  But BLECH.  Its just gross.  All this for a mere bruise?  Hmmmmmm.  Me thinks round 2 at the doc office might be in order soon.  I'll give it to week 3 and see what improvements or not I have to report.

OUCH

Alright, so the issue of the lack of contact with the man has been resolved and its stupid really.  Admittedly I over reacted, so all is good with our world once again.

Now the new issue at hand is my R foot.  Two days ago I was walking along a river bed, where, of course has rocks.  Well, one step my foot stepped on a rock, and was squished between two bigger rocks.  The ankle twisted inward and therefore the rock UNDER my foot, turned and its sharp point was then driven into my arch.  Colourful metaphors then proceeded!

It was swollen and uber sore and sensative at first, now its just swollen and sore.  I can't fit the foot in any shoe and Dawg forbid said shoe has an arch support to it!!  ICKY and PUKEY.

Not sure if I broke anything, I'm giving it another day.  Regardless, its not like I can drive my butt to the docs as that's my gas pedal foot!!  Its real fun walking to dog right now!  No really.  I'm just glad its nice out and shoes aren't really needed to walk in the yard!!

Sigh

Sorry guys, but this a rant against the male species.  Don't get me wrong, I like men, and I am just generalizing, know FULL well, that there is always an exception to every rule, so please don't get too upset!!

Why is that when a man says he's going to communicate..he doesn't.  Why?  I know sometimes life can get in the way and I shouldn't be 'sitting by the phone waiting', and normally, you're right...I wouldn't be.  But the thing is..I KNOW he should contact me, in fact he SAID as much about a week ago that he would now(ish).  Well, its now(ish) O clock.  In fact, its past the perspective timing, by almost two days.  I have sent to emails to say...HEY..'sup....but I have YET to get a response back.  I hate to sound needy, but this is my husband we are talking about.  He's out doing his job.  I also get that too.  But its not job time now or even at the timing.  So WHERE Da F is he?  I mean, I 'm not looking for a long sappy love you miss you type of email, just something, even if it said, Hey, we're in, but I'm busy will contact you soon"  will suffice rather nicely.

Its hard not to have the mind wander in places one doesn't want to go.  There has never been any reason why the mind would go there,but it is right now.  Things have seemed to be aloof right now, so I dunno wtf is going on or what's in his head.  I could be DEAD wrong, and going on pure speculation, but man he knows how my mind works and is working at the moment..wouldn't one think one would try and quell that thought?  Seems kinda common sense to me.  But guys sometimes don't think logical..or so its seems from a woman's POV.  Yet, the guy is going..SHEESH give him a break!!  He's probably just out with the boys.  Stop being so dam needy.

Fine, go out and play..but I'm just saying he should of contacted me BEFORE he went out as now(ish) O clock has came and went and he had AMPLE time to say HI.  That is all.  All I want is HI and miss you.  Is that so hard??

CRAZY!!

It took me too long to get in.  Too many passwords to know, too many emails to know and then I was sidetracked to G+, OOPS!!

Many tabs later oh HOW TO, Finally I am here.

I may not write often and sometimes my writings will seem more like a rant than anything.  Sometimes my writings may just BE..you know.  Sometimes I stuff going on, and other times..not so much.  I shall try and keep things at the very least, entertaining!!  Even the term BLAH...is just that.  BLAH.