It's been an eventful week for us! So I thought I'd better blog about it before I forget all about it because of how busy I'm about to be!
My birthday was last Tuesday. The older I get, the more I really dislike birthdays. I miss the days when birthdays meant lots of surprises and cake and ice cream! I still remember when I was a kid, birthdays were so much fun because all the cousins would come over to celebrate! Since Josh and I have been together, we try to do something extra fun around our birthdays. Our birthdays are only two days apart, for those of you who don't know. We usually go on vacation or something fun like that! This year we couldn't really do anything because of moving and Josh's new job. So instead of doing something super fun for my birthday, I decided to have an MRI!
Since about August, I've had a lot of pain in both hips. The most painful time is every night when I'm trying to sleep. No matter how I try to sleep, I can't because my hips hurt so bad. I've been wanting to see a doctor about it for a long time, but with living in Roosevelt, that made it extra difficult. There's no Sports Medicine doctors in Roosevelt. I had been to a really good doctor in West Jordan, before we moved. She helped me so much when I had a knee surgery, and when I had a tear in my achilles. So I knew I definitely wanted to go to her. Part of the issue with being so far away when we were living in Roosevelt, is that any doctors appointment in Salt Lake, meant taking a whole day off of work. It was a 5 hour round trip drive, plus the time spent at the doctors office. I knew that in order to get anything figured out with my hips, I'd have to have an initial doctors appointment and probably have X-Rays done. I felt like my hip issues were pretty serious, so after that I'd probably have to have an MRI scheduled, and then of course a follow up doctors appointment. That's three days off work and the probably still wouldn't be fixed. So when Josh and I decided to move back to Salt Lake, I called and made an appointment with the Sports Medicine doctor.
Everything went just like I thought it would. I met with the doctor and told her all about my pain. I explained to her that no amount of ibuprofen or laying off on the running, seemed to help with the pain I was in all day every day. So then next came X-Rays. From the X-Rays should could see that my right hip did have some type of trauma to it. So then of course the next step was an MRI. This was scheduled for my birthday. I wasn't going to complain because I knew that it needed to be done.
I've had an MRI done one time before on my knee, but this MRI was something completely different. Because of what the doctor thought was wrong with my hips, I had to have dye injected down into the joint of both sides of my hips. Holy moly! They did numb it before they did the injection, but it was still pretty painful. Then after that I was stuck in the MRI machine for atleast an hour. They had to get images of both hips which seemed to take forever! I had the MRI follow up with the doctor the next day. The doctor explained to be that I had a labral tear in both hips. Not exactly what I wanted to hear, but atleast I finally had an answer!! My doctor explained to me that the best way to "fix" this, was to have surgery to reattach the tear that is causing me the pain. She said that I can also try cortisone shots, but they aren't a long term fix, and if they aren't injected right into the joint where the injury is, they can be ineffective. So looks like another surgery is somewhere in the future, but not anytime soon. The doctor said that I can keep running, but she would suggest that I don't do any activity like yoga that puts more pressure on the joints. So I'll just keep running, and not being able to sleep at night!
Josh's birthday was last Thursday. Josh absolutely loves his birthday! I'm not exactly sure why, because I'm not that great magnificent wife that is creative and goes crazy on his birthday. He was pretty bummed that we weren't able to go on a trip this year. Luckily Josh has some really great co-works that surprised him at work! That night we went to Josh's parents for dinner. His parents always spoil us with their yummy cooking!
To top off the last week, I was offered a job at Overstock.com!! I am an Executive Assistant to one of the Senior Vice Presidents. I am super excited about this job! My first day is tomorrow. I'm not too good with being the new person, but I'm hoping I pick up on things pretty quickly. I've heard nothing but good things about this company and how well they treat their employees. Today a pretty awesome gift basket was delivered to my house with a nice note welcoming me to the company.
I didn't know this until I did some research on the company, but Overstock.com is based right here in Salt Lake. I'm excited to be working for this company for hopefully a very long time!
Over the last 5 1/2 years that Josh and I have been together, we have never had the same work schedule. We are used to hardly ever seeing each other, and very rarely having days off together. This will be a whole new experience for us! We will get to enjoy weekends and holidays together. I'm so thankful that this has finally happened for us!
