8/21 DAY 2 - Bathing sitting down is GREAT!...said no one ever.

Wed 8/21/13 <<DAY 2>>
Little sleep through the night. Had to pee at 2am & again at 5am. This was no easy task as I not only had to make my way to the bathroom, in pain & half asleep, but my husband had to unhook me from the VascuTherm. Remember, I cannot put any kind of pressure on this foot & it's wrapped & wrapped with gauze & cotton...& heavy. The hardest part was actually the part of  "sitting". At this point I felt a lot of pain on my operated toe. My husband brought in a small square basket to rest my foot on. The "getting up" was not much easier. I knew I'd have to learn how to work around the crutches, the pain & pressure I felt on the foot while not putting any pressure on the foot.
Because I had the Marcaine pumping on my foot & on heavy meds the pain was bearable. Don't get me wrong, I was definitely in pain but it wasn't KILLING me. The operated toe felt like when you stub your toe really hard & how that pain takes a while to subside. My natural instinct was to hold it & rub it but I couldn't even see it wrapped in all this cotton, let alone rub it. 
By 530pm I had dinner, my husband made me :) , & kind of in & out of it all day due to the pain medication.  Through out the day I'd feel, really feel, the toe...the bone, the whole area. I imagined being in the operating room but as a surgical tech assisting not the patient on the table. I'm taking the heavy pain medication every 4 hours along with a green pill which is antibiotic. I decided to use the chair (the one he found for me is from Craigslist, I wasn't going to pay that much for something I'd only use for a few months & then never again) my husband got me & try & take a bath even though I was feeling groggy. With the chair in the tub & my leg resting partly on the edge of the tub (kind of hanging out of the tub) & a wicker bench outside the tub I rested my leg/foot on there & proceeded to bathe. I froze but at least I felt a lot cleaner (doesn't help that I'm OCD) By 835pm I was in bed, meds kicked in but I was excited to go to my first Dr's appointment the next day. He had said this would be the day I could see my foot for the first time :) Yay! Lovey, my little nurse always by my side :)