My Daughter Hates My Face

No, really, she does. 

Any facial injury I have suffered in the last 5 years is due to my daughter. Right before my first half marathon, my wonderful Jillian head butted me in the nose and completely popped my septum out of place. The ENT described it as knocking the base off the pyramid. One septoplasty later, that was fixed. 

Last night Jillian head butted me again and busted my lip. There was definitely blood and now it's nice and puffy.

I have no idea what her fascination is with my face and injuring it, but anytime it would like to end, that would be fantastic.

Please tell me I am not the only one that this happens to. 

Thanksgiving Thursday

For those of you that don't know what Thanksgiving Thursday is, it is the one time during the week where you stop and basically count your blessings. Even if you've had one of those weeks, I promise you can find at least one thing to be thankful for, no matter how big or small.

This week I am thankful for:

• Scott who truly does so much for all of us. I don't know what I'd do without him.

• Aaron who is seriously hilarious. The kid cracks me up all day every day and I love it!

• The look on Jill's face when we went to see Winnie the Pooh on Monday. It is so hard for me to write my review because 90% of it is going to be Jill's reaction.
  

• An amazing family near and far.

• What I'm hoping will be another great opportunity.

• The awesome opportunity that Scott received, which is something I wish I could publicly post, but sadly, I can't.

• Getting the all clear from my doctor. He also suggested Jill never comes in contact with my nose for the rest of my life. I didn't mention she has already dinged me in the nose twice this week.
  

What are you thankful for this week?

A week later...

So it's been over a week since my septoplasty and I had my splints taken out on Wednesday morning. When I got there the nurse saw me and said "Oh my gosh, this is the most painful part." All I could think was I should have brought my leftover Tylenol 3 with me and popped one while I was waiting for the doctor. Naturally, he says this to me before I sit in the room for 25 minutes staring at the instruments that are about to go up my nose. Good thing he took my blood pressure right away before I had time to process anything....

Oh and before I forget to mention this gem, he asked if my nose was that big before the surgery. I think he was trying to ask if it was still swollen, but as a person with a shall we say, strong Polish nose, I wanted to hit him. I told him no it was still slightly swollen and then he remembered uh duh the splints are still in, which add to the size, or apparently girth.

So finally the doctor comes in, and I love this guy, he's truly the best. I also love that he wasted no time and got right down to business, he also realized I didn't want to talk about it, I just wanted him to do it. Telling me that the splint is the entire length of my nose does not change the fact that it needs to come out. After it was removed he asked if I was ok, if I was lightheaded or anything and all I could respond with was, "I had twins, this was nothing" and it was so true.

I don't know about you other MoM's, but my pain scale has changed since having the kids. Now when I'm asked to rate my pain from 1-10, 10 being the worst pain ever (um hi contractions), I tend to low ball things. I could probably cut off my finger and be like "Yeah, that's a 6, 7 tops".

Since the splints have been removed I'm finally getting back to normal. I still have to be careful not to hit my nose, obviously, and still cannot blow my nose like a normal person. I also cannot let the destruction team (Aaron and Jill) redo what they did per doctor's orders. Yes, my doctor calls them the destruction team and I think that's fabulous. Here's a photo of me and Jill from tonight, I don't think I look any different, obviously since it was all internal:

I'm sure if I put up a before photo that would help, but that would also require me finding a photo of me in the same pose. So not happening tonight.

I hope you all have a fabulous and safe weekend! Don't forget what this weekend is really about!

Thanksgiving Thursday

For those of you that don't know what Thanksgiving Thursday is, it is the one time during the week where you stop and basically count your blessings. Even if you've had one of those weeks, I promise you can find at least one thing to be thankful for, no matter how big or small.

This week I am thankful for:

• Scott stepping up a ton this week and picking up the slack I left behind. I'm a pretty lucky gal to have a husband like him!

• Aaron understanding I couldn't pick him up and being pretty ok with it.

• Jill not re-smashing my nose during the recovery phase (my doctor has asked that she and Aaron not come anywhere near it ever again)

• My MOM being in town and helping me as I recovered, even if she did make me laugh so hard it hurt.

• My doctor who did an AMAZING job on my septoplasty. No bruising, minimal swelling and a perfectly straight septum/nose.
  

• The surgery center sending a speedy recovery card. Who does that? Clearly an amazing surgery center!

• All of the kind words during this time.

What are you thankful for?

Thanksgiving Thursday

For those of you that don't know what Thanksgiving Thursday is, it is the one time during the week where you stop and basically count your blessings. Even if you've had one of those weeks, I promise you can find at least one thing to be thankful for, no matter how big or small.

This week I am thankful for:

• Scott being the best nurse a girl could ask for. He's pretty awesome at changing the bandages.

• Jill telling everyone that Mama is sick in her nose, love that girl.

• Aaron wanting to just hold my hand, I love that kid.

• My MOM being her to help with the kids, I don't know what I'd do without her.

• Not getting sick after surgery, it's the little things in life people.

• No bruising around my eyes and very minimal swelling.
  

• Tylenol 3 with Codeine, no explanation needed.

• All of the well wishes, especially the one from my sister that said "to nose you is to love you"

• This video:

What are you thankful for this week?

A Splashing Good Time

This weekend literally flew by. We went to a first birthday party on Saturday and the kids had a blast! It was at one of our favorite parks and as an added bonus the kids got to go into the splash park. It's at that point in the summer that it's just too hot to do anything else.


All four of us were pretty pooped after the party and just hung out the rest of the day.

Like I mentioned before it's at the point in the summer that it's too hot to do anything, and we are so getting cabin fever. I'm on a mission this week to find fun inside stuff for us to do, especially when my MOM is here. I'm finally having my septoplasty and am not looking forward to it by any stretch of the imagination. I'm pretty lucky that my MOM is coming to help out with the kids so I can recover. The most random part of my recovery is that I cannot wear my glasses, only my contacts, because I cannot have the frames sitting on the cast. This shall prove to be interesting....

Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend!

Way back When-esday

Dateline: January 2010
Age: 8 months

This is one of my favorite photos of the kiddos (do I say that every week?). We took this at Animal Kingdom and it wasn't even posed. The kiddos both just sat down on the bench. I really want to try and recapture this shot again to see the differences.

Play along with Cheryl at Twinfatuation!

In other news, I went to the ENT today about my nose and he said it was not broken, but she did a real number on it. The way he described it is the bone part of your nose is like a pyramid and my daughter basically hit the bottom of the pyramid and it's shifted. The one part is pushing on the septum and that's why I can barely breathe out of my left nostril. He also said she really knocked my septum out of place too. So the options are to 1) do nothing (not gonna happen) 2) he could numb the outside and inside of the nose and use some tools to try and put it back into place. That works 75% of the time, but if it doesn't it may look worse and then I would need a septoplasty or 3) Wait until the swelling is down and have a septoplasty to fix everything. He also said since he would have to break my nose anyway if there was anything else I wanted done he could do that as well. Insurance will pre-approve the septoplasty but will not guarantee full payment until after they read the post-op notes from the surgeon. They will cover the anesthesia and operating room costs, but there's no guarantee on anything else. I'm opting for #3 and hoping for the best. We'll see what happens.