Our Roadtrip!

So Ben and I just recently got back from our roadtrip to South Carolina. My brother was getting married and so we made the 2 day drive out there and back. It was lots of fun (probably less for Ben since he ended up doing allllll the driving b/c I was drugged up for my sciatic pain) and we got to enjoy the family, as well as visit some historical sites! There are so many pictures I want to share but I think instead of putting them all in one post I'll do one or two a day until I've got them all in.

So, first up we have:

Ben and Alex at the wedding! It was on Hilton Head Island, at a beach resort. This is the deck where the ceremony was held. It was rather funny, how lots of people on the beach noticed there was a wedding and all came up to watch... in their bathing suits!

And here we are dancing the night away! Ben was humoring me b/c he hates dancing... not sure why, he's really quite splendid!

OOTP Trailer

Boo on Mondays...

After a terrible weekend resulting from a particularly torturous PT appointment, its is now Monday and I'm still in pain and not a bit closer to being ready for our trip than I was 3 days ago. Oh and did I mention that we have a busted sink in the kitchen that caused us to shut our water off for a while? Yeah... so hopefully today those plumbers will come and fix that so we can once again use our water and get everything ready and packed for our trip! How I wish I had a house elf...
Oh, by the way... everyone see the newly updated and revamped countdown ticker? :)

Steroids?!?!

So I went to the doctor today about my leg and turns out I'm having sciatic pain, hooray. It is most probably all muscle related and so off I go to do 4 weeks of physical therapy. In the meanwhile, and since I have to be much better by next Wednesday (we're driving out to South Carolina for my brother's wedding) I have been given some meds to take the edge off... a muscle relaxant and steroids. Yup, thats right... steroids! Apparently they are for the inflamation... get rid of the inflamation and voila, no more pinched nerve! That sounds nice... hopefully I won't end up with a man-voice and a beard! ;) Oh and... the torture, oh excuse me, I mean PT- begins tomorrow, bright and early...yay?

Gimping it again!

Not sure what it is about the right side of my body, but it sure does like being mean to me! Currently it has decided to go on strike (my right leg/hip, that is) and refuses to bear up my weight and do its fair share of work hauling me around! Well, scratch that... it will do it still, but not without protesting heavily and sending sharp shooting pains down to the tippy top of my toes. I'm not entirely sure what I could have done to upset my leg/hip/back so much, but it seems to be quite angry with me since yesterday. So once again, I'm gimping around, and taking lots of pills to keep myself semi-comfortable. Pethaps this has something to do with an old injury I sustained back in 2001 when I broke my hip... it really never has been the same since, but who knows. For now I suppose I'll just have to wait until Monday when I can go get it checked out. Odds are physical therapists will once more be making lots of $$$ off of me and my retarded right side... yippy.