After: Redux

It annoyed me that the before pictures were at least two years old. And it annoyed me that I exported them into a gif instead of a jpg, so they were all blurry.

So here's a new picture from earlier this year, followed by the after picture from last week. I've also added labels for your convenience. Enjoy.



And now I'm off to do some therapy. And by "therapy," I mean "drink some wine."

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Wednesday, July 23, 2008 link | talk


After

I didn't bother to take any before pictures. That was stupid. What good is all the HGTV I watch, if I can't properly document a makeover?

In looking through all of my old photos, I find that I'm usually tilted to the side to compensate for the unevenness. (Is that even a word?) But I found a few ok shots. I think I might have a really good one at work, but I won't be back there for another week and a half, so you'll just have to be patient.

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Thursday, July 17, 2008 link | talk


AM

It's 2:00 am. I'm definitely tired. But I can't sleep. At all.

I actually went to bed ages ago, but after staring at the ceiling for a while and wishing I could get comfortable, I got up again and watched Design Star and the Next Food Network Star. Usually I can count on myself to fall asleep on the couch in front of the TV.

Apparently not today. At least my shows were good.

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Monday, July 14, 2008 link | talk


Boo.

I miss the days of morphine every 10 minutes and no lifting at all. Physical therapy is not fun - and ibuprofen just doesn't have the same magic.

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Thursday, July 10, 2008 link | talk


Home!

And we're finally back home. I feel like I've run some sort of race, but the only prize was getting up the stairs to sit on my couch. Shouldn't there be a medal or neoprene sheet or something?

I'll be typing with my left hand for a while (which means a lot of deleting) but I'm here. I looked in the mirror for the first time today, and it's amazing to see my shoulders at the same height for the first time since I can remember. That means no more chiropractors following me around pushing it down, got it?

Sadly, the morphine is gone too. But I'm on some nice hydrocodone. Yum.

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Friday, June 27, 2008 link | talk


Left...

handed typing is not easy. One more night in the hospital. Thanks for all the good thoughts!

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Thursday, June 26, 2008 link | talk


Morphine...

is awesome. But it's still not enough to make that screaming judge on So You Think You Can Dance tolerable. My head hurts.

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 link | talk


Surgery Update

Finally - it's been a very long day. Mick's surgery went very well - the doc removed a tumor the size of a softball! He'll hopefully be feeling much better tomorrow.

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 link | talk


The Knife

For those of you not around all the time, I'm having some extra bone removed from my scapula on Wednesday.

Nothing to worry about. It just makes sense to have one place that everyone can go to get updates. Updates most likely posted by my mom. You know, instead of calling my cell phone while I'm in the hospital, trying to see what sorts of things I'll say on the morphine.

So look for a new post Wednesday evening-ish.

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Monday, June 23, 2008 link | talk