Bit of an update

Well there isn't much to update about. But I felt like writing up a post. We just got back from PT. The way PT goes is this:we get there and then my physical therapist comes to the waiting room and gets us. Her name is Mandi. She's very sweet.  So we go back to a room and I take my boot off and then I bend my ankle up and down and sideways. And I wiggle my toes and then she wiggles my toes and moves my ankle up and down and sideways.  I can move my ankle by myself up about floor even. I take my boots off while it's up on pillows so gravity kinda makes it go down anyways. It. Will. Not. Go. Down. Like. At. All. Seriously. No joke it will not move down. My big toe will also not. At. All. Bend down. I don't know what's up with that though. :-(  I can move it sideways in pretty good and sideways out pretty good by myself. I can sorta do a super duper completely pathetic little circle. So then I do a resistance band sometimes which I'm kinda good at. Then I put my boot back on and we go out to this big room that has a bunch of equipment in it and she has me try to take steps inbetween to parallel bars. Then she puts a scale under my foot and I have to lock my knee and put as much weight as I can on it. The first time I tried I only did like 15lbs and then the second time I got up to 20-25lbs but today I put 40 lbs on it. And I have to say...I was kinda proud about that. I didn't say so out loud though...until now. ;-D So I can put about half my weight on it. When I weighed myself at Easter I was finally up to 80lbs. I weighed myself at PT and I was down to 75lbs with my boot and the boot I was wearing. So I lost quite a bit of weight. So anyways...off track whoops! So half of my weight...ok then I walk a circle around the room putting weight on my foot.  At home I don't put that much weight on my foot. So today she tried to get me to take a step with a cane...which meant only having support on one hand. It kinda freaked me out and I couldn't do it. Like at all. So then she had me go inbetween the parallel bars and only hold onto one bar so the one on the other side would be there in case I needed it. I really couldn't do it. I tried but I put like no weight on my left leg. Yes, I cried because it freaked me out. I felt bad but I just really could not make myself do it. :-( So then she lowered my crutches so I put more weight on my foot and into my hands instead of my armpits. Because I won't put as much weight on my foot as I'm suppose to unless I take each step really slow and tell myself to put weight on it. So I'm sloooooow. After PT we went to Target where I sat in the car while Mama took the boys in and got them slurries and a pretzel for everyone to share. Then she got me and her a coffee to share. And why is it when we get an iced one it's gone waaaay faster then a hot one? So then we went down some random roads because today? It. Is. Gorgeous. Actually kinda beyond gorgeous. Bright blue skies. Barely a cloud in the sky. Sunny!! Kinda chilly. But...gorgeous. One thing that's really depressing though? The mountains are getting more snow!!! WAAHHH!!!  :'-( I don't want winter I want summer. Because I only got half a summer this year. So this year I get a full Alaskan winter and a half Alaskan summer. And you know how very short the summer is and how very long the winter is....so yeah. I'm dreading the snow. So now...pictures!

Guys,guess what? I finally got a picture of my foot that is true to looks. Yay! Yep I know, stupid. But I want you to know what it actually looks like. :-D

The white parts are the parts where I rubbed off the dead skin. The dark parts? Dirty dead skin. Yep, yuck! Don't even ask about my big toe...fungus. :-( my foot is still super puffy. You can barely see my ankle bones but on my other foot my ankle bones totally jut out.  Yeah, I'm pretty happy about finally getting a good picture. Stupid stupid. I'm gonna take another bath tomorrow so hopefully I'll get more dead skin off. Yay. Oh well...continuing!

Finally wearing jeans makes for a happy me. :-)

My new favorite to way to wear my hair. And Piersen says I look like a nerd with Daddy's glasses on. But a cute nerd. Thanks, Bub. I figured being a cute nerd was good right? 

And that's all!! Love you, guys!!

Picture post.

Yes, this post is mostly going to be pictures. There isn't much to update about. My leg is doing good. It's very helpful to be able to weight bear although I don't really like walking. But I'm gonna have to get use to it. My ankle is moving more. I'm getting better at bending it definitely better than the first time I tried to bend it. Weird but...have you ever looked at an iPad or iPod screen with your parents glasses on? It's kinda awesome. :-)  I totally feel like I was gonna say something else...I have no clue. Anyways! Lots and lots of pictures. 

I love this photo editor thing on my iPod. I have so much fun with it. You can make your pictures look cool and you can make collages. :-)

Me!

Me again. My hand looks weird. I don't know why I'm putting it up there. My lips are so red because I put mamas lipstick on. :-)

You can barely see the mountains but I like the way the editing turned out.

The editing on this photo makes it even better then the original. I took this on the train.

Right now this is my lock screen. I love it.  

Me and my puppy. She's smiling.  

This is my favorite picture of me that I have taken in months. 

This is the original.  I'm not trying to be vain but the pictures of me are usually horrible and this on I actually look cute. 

Pictures on the train. I was very happy when I realized editing these pictures made the grass and waters and rocks distinguishable.  

Me...again. 

You can't tell in this picture but I call her my Gandalf dog sometimes. In the book Gandalfs eyebrows are suppose to stick out beyond his hat brim. She needs a haircut super super bad so she has her that falls over her eyes and we wonder how she can even see and then under her head her hair is really long so it kinda looks like she has a beard. So she's kinda like Gandalf. Anyhoo. 

She fell asleep with her head resting on my leg. It was sweet.  

Now...foot pictures.

My foot is swollen here and my skin is really dry.  We've been putting lotion on so it looks tons better. The bumps are from certain places on the boot that make little marks on me when I swell.  

My scab is getting smaller!!! :-D

Right above my break.  Well that is where my break is. 

My lowest incision.  My foot is still swollen enough that you can just see my ankle bone. And my ankle bones jut out a lot. But depending on how long I leave my foot down or put it up the swelling changes.  

He was being indiana jones. Piersen had an indiana jones whip but it got left outside so he had to blowdry the battery compartment because it was a little wet. He's the cutest kid alive

It feels awesome to wear boots!!!

And just in case you were wondering how I do this...because I totally would.  Call me weird for doing this but like I said if I hadn't been the one who broke my leg and someone else had I would totally want to know...because I'm super nosy. :-D

Mama went to Anchorage with some friends yesterday so Daddy took us to Hatchers Pass. I of course had to sit in the car.  With the dog. That barks.  A lot. And I wouldn't have minded sitting in the car if it hadn't been for my really annoying dog. Anyways it was a beyond gorgeous day. I tried to get some pictures out of the car window.

The sky was bright blue and the colors were all green and orange and red and yellow. You can't tell in these pictures because of my iPod...but it  is very very pretty. 

And this is me...sitting in my chair backwards because daddy to tod me to raise my leg. :-D

Well well well now that I've shown you tons of pictures that aren't even very pretty I suppose I shall leave.  I love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!   <3. <3. 

Doctors and.....

We just got home from the doctors. He took my boot off and had me bend everything and then he helped me bend it. He said it was looking good. The nerves on my toes are better but the bottom of my foot is still funny. He said it was just nerve injury. And then...he told me he wants me to weight bear. Scary...awesome but scary. So mama told him he has to tell me al the details and what to do otherwise I won't know what to do. He told me to just walk on it as much as possible and as much as I can tolerate. So then I asked him " how much weight can I put on it?" his answer? "Up to 120 pounds." I started laughing and told him I don't even weigh that much. It was pretty funny. He said I don't want to twist it so I'll have to take wide turns. I'm still on crutches but we go back in four weeks and he said by then I might be no crutches. Just still boot. So....yep!!! I'm excited but kinda worried. I mean not really worried but just not use to walking on it so......it does kinda worry me. But the doctor knows what he's talking about. But that's all for now. Maybe a few pictures....

This is the new thing after dinner now. :-D

I got this app that I can make photos look cool and make collages and stuff. I love it! But texting won't work right now so I can't text them to the iPad to put on here. Maybe later.

Love you!!!! 

~Kaylee 

Bath

As I had mentioned before my boot makes it possible for me to take a bath with my leg in the water. So Saturday night that's what I did. Yes, it did feel pretty good to wash it. But I was afraid. And she wants me to take another pne in a few days. :-(So I got in the bath with my boot still on. Then I took my boot and sock off and propped my leg up on a bunch of towels then Mama turned the water on. Yes, I wanted to get in before there was any water. I know I'm weird. So then I gently wiped my dead skin off. And let me just say, BLEGH! The water got disgusting. It was too gross to wash my hair. The skin that came off the bottom of my foot was the worse. I'll be nice and not go into detail. ;-)  So then Mama had to get inbetween my toes. And then she rubbed the bottom of my foot...and I cried. The bottom of my foot feels SO weird. It's like when you touch it super bad pins and needles mixed with tingles and it's just...horrible. So then she lathered up her hands with lavender soap and gently rubbed my leg with that and put it on the bottom of my foot and inbetween my toes (sort of) and then just splashed water on it. So now it is a bit cleaner. When I took my boot of yesterday she did say the bottom of my foot looks much better. So that's good. My scab is still there and right around my ankle and the break it's still really sore (the skin). Mama said she think the blue cast was too tight around there. I think so too. It got kinda purple around there and it still has some marks where the cast was. My leg is still purple and bruised and like I mentioned the scab from the pressure blister is still there. Mama took the little steri-strips of my incisions. I had three incisions and the top two had about 4-5 stitches each I think. The bottome incision had I think about 7 stitches...yeah that sounds about right. Anyways my stitches already got taken out but the she put the little strips over the spots where the stitches were. So mama took those off. She and daddy said my incisions look very good.  So then I got out and dried off and put oils on my foot and made sure it was dry and then put my sock on. Ad then halfway through putting my boot on...the power went out. But we got my boot on thanks to my iPod and got to stay up a little later than usual. So yeah...that's how I washed my leg. Tomorrow I go to the doctors. I might be able to do some slight weight bearing if he think my leg looks good.  No x-rays. Hopefully no tears...  I was doing pretty good on bending my ankle but it seems to have stiffened up...hopefully what I can do the doctor thinks it's still good. Please pray. For good news from the doctor and maybe even weightbearing. So anyways...pictures!

My incisions. The longest one is the one closest to my ankle. Where the shadow is is right around my break. I don't know if you can tell in the picture but my leg has a dent right there. We can't figure out if I got dented during the accident or if it's just the metal plate pushing my skin making it look flat. But you can see the dots and a couple bruises so that's where my break is. I don't even know what the incisions should look like but I think they look very good. Anyways...

Now, the bad lighting in the other pictures made it look too red and purple but my foot is still bruised up. You can't really tell in this pic.but you can see the insicions and the little dots from where he marked me for surgery and the big scab. This pic actually makes it look less bad. My foot is more purple then that.

This one is a little more true to life looking. :-) And Nathan, I can totally understand if it looks like I grew in this picture. ;-) When I saw the pic I even went "Is my leg that skinny? I look anorexic!" Yes, I asked Mama that. It jus looks really skinny in this pic. :-/ anyways...

I won't show you the picture of the bottom of my foot...it's embarrassing...unless you want to see. 

My dog is very weird. 

But she's so small compared to Libby. Ha!

Hunting

Daddy and our upstairs neighbors Dad and his wife's Dad went hunting this weekend. They didn't get anything. But I do have a few pictures of Daddy posing. 

Daddy set up the tent in the bedroom because the boys wanted to sleep in it. Yes, we have a giant tent.

I'm doing OK. I went to another PT (physical therapy) appointment yesterday. I have to say, it wasn't that bad at all. My ankle decided to behave and not hurt. Yay! On my own I can move my ankle:a teeny tiny bit down, up sorta far...it, like, jerks up but I can hold up for a little while.  (The thing is when I take my boot off I prop my foot up on a couple pillows and gravity makes my ankle go down a little by itself so I can move it up to about regular position on my own.) and I can also make it go sideways (in not out). I'm still swollen...pictures coming for that. :-(    My pressure blister has scabbed over and it hurts sometimes. The PT lady says it would be easier to move my ankle if it wasn't still swollen. And to get it unswollen...more propping up on pillows, I'm suppose to like massage my foot or something to make the fluid go away. The feeling is mostly back to my toes...they still feel a little funny. The bottom of my foot though...ugh. I hate it when Mama touches it. It feels so weird. The PT lady said to do a different surface thingy where I take different things (you can start with soft stuff like cotton balls) but use different textures and gently rub them on the bottom of my foot. She said it helps with helping your brain register what your foot is feeling. Something about nerves. And I have to take a bath or shower. With my leg uncovered. Which means I have to get over the side if the tub without anything on my leg. I'm not looking forward to that to say the least. But, Mama insists upon my wishing my leg...it's starting to stink. Waaah...I don't want to. So look forward to a post about that sometime soon. 

This is just one incision. I have no clue why my skin looks so weird. I have like two more. The last one is right down by my ankle.  

OK OK. 1. My foot is shiny because there was coconut oil on it and the light was reflecting off it.  2. The lighting is bad because it was late at night and we had to have the light on.  3.It was taken on my iPod. So my foot doesn't look quite like that. But hopefully you can get the general idea. :-D    4. Yes, it is super swollen.  

Piersen wanted me to tell you that he's writing a comic that he wants to publish. He also wanted me to take a picture. ;-)

He's not finished yet. He said you can read it if you want.