Life

Yesterday was the youth group Christmas party (and if it was anyone reading this that put a bottle of soap in a bag as their white elephant gift the Lord will get u back because as He says "vengenance is mine")! It was awsome full of apples to apples, bingo, ping pong, fusball, ps3 playing, dominoes, food, pop, door prizes.... etc. O yeah I also won something in bingo!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was really excited cause that's never happened before but yeah anyways. I think it's really funny that over about 3/4 of the youth group is full of cousins and people the cousins drag along for the ride :) The countdown for Christmas break was started a long time ago but here's the official countdown as of today: 5 1/2 school days!!!!!! Aren't all the parents excited!?! it is FREEZING outside! my hands completely dried out today from just going from the school door to the car after school but it was sooooooooo exciting to watch all the little snowflakes( and more importantly:) and the HUGE snowflakes storming down from the sky during science class! The snow somehow happened to mysteriously disappear before school got out who woulda guessed though! Anyone ever heard the song where it goes "I am free to run (I am free to run) I am free to dance (I am free to dance) I am free to live for You (I am free to live for you) I am free (I am free) Yes I am free!!!" That's exactly how I feel right now cause I'm allowed to run and dance and I'm always supposed to live my life for God. Even when I mess up I can keep going on and doing my best in all aspects of that song!

BRACE!

Ok I'm really excited now cause I'm free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today Mike finally let me have my freedom and i don't have to wear my brace anymore!!!!! sure my leg isn't were it's supposed to be w/ some things but w/ almost everything else it's all good! my leg bends to were normal people bend it(apperently my legs are really flexible and go farther) but it doesn't go completely straight so please yell at me if u see me walking toe to heel instead of heel to toe k? i only have like 2 more visits so hopefully it hurrys up some but yeah. ttyl!
Katy

brace ;'(

i'm still stuck in my brace although i was supposed to get out of it 2-3 weeks ago so i'm not very happy but someday. the lock in was awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry this one's really tiny but it's time for me to do my history project so ttyl!
Katy

brace, doctor, LOCK-IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok i was supposed to be able to take my brace off according to the official paper thingy for my type of surgery LAST wednesday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i still need to be able to get my leg a little straighter cause when i'm sitting down i should be able to lift my leg up like it is one thing but when i do it i lift my upper leg up my knee bends slighly and then my lower leg comes up! it really stinks and mike is really confused so he made a couple of my exercises that focus on that part harder so i can finally get out of this brace. hopefully i'll be out by thursday(from the doctor) or friday if my leg works right :/. i get to leave health class early tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or in other words i'm visiting the doctor again :( i like the first wording better cause it sounds like more fun but yeah sometimes not everything is fun. o just a ps anyone that goes to lca on friday is a jeans day where u pay $1 to wear jeans(either pants or skirt but skirt only for girls :) and $2 to wear jeans and a Christian t-shirt/sweatshirt/long sleeve shirt. anyways on friday i get to go to my first lock-in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it's at ally's church and it sounds like it'll be a blast but if she doesn't start staying out of trouble the rest of this week i won't be able to go so everyone please pray for a certain ally payne that goes to lca to stay out of trouble at least the rest of this week! thanks! yeah so catch ya later!
Katy

youth group's fall thingy

Queen Cleopatra looking very strange Queen Cleopatra

pt, grandma, and school

Well, by Friday i'm hopefully going to be aloud to go w/o my brace(that excites me a lot!). I can now bend my leg to 110 degrees by myself and Mike can bend it 130 for me :( i would love to say that it doesn't hurt as much as at the beginning but that would be lying cause it bent really easy to 90 degrees when i first started. i think everyone knows that grandma had a minor stroke on monday, but she got out of the hospital yesterday and should hopefully be moving around by tomorrow at the earliest. At school this past week and the week before there has been a petition going around the jr high and high school side saying that the school should either turn up the heat or let us wear blankets or coats or something! i think everybody signed and i just heard mrs mackelrath(i'm not sure how to spell that) laughed when she read it and she hadn't realized the school was cold( mrs dempsey had actually brought a thermometer to school and it said it was 60 degrees in the 1st grade room), but they're working on making the heat go up and it's now to 68 and that's where it's probably going to stay so we're a little warmer.
catch u all up later and hopefully not as long as it took for me to right this one!
Katy

doctor, pt, maroon v.s. gold, last game

went to the doctor friday and he said i was doing really good. my cuts look a lot smaller than i thought they would so i'm not very happy about that cause now i won't have very big scars. went to pt about an hour and a half later and even though it was only the second day of the second week i've already met most( if not all) of my end of second week goals- Mike wasn't very happy about that again cause that meant he couldn't stretch my leg very much THANK THE LORD!! the maroon v.s. gold game was hilarious! we all got mixed up on different teams- i mean main campus and east- and let's just say east was looking really good and main has some really funny players. by the end of the game the coaches were playing also even though mrs dempsey didn't have her cleats :). everyone got a free either gold or maroon jersey depending on wat team they played on. i got gold even though they didn't call my name cause there were some left for those of us that didn't show up or couldn't play. the last game we played really awsome but the other team ended up winning if our season had been a couple games longer we would've ended up winning games near the end but unfortunately it wasn't. i yelled a lot during the game but no one but the other people warming the bench could really hear me cause idk why but yeah. all i have to say about the other team is that they need to learn how to leave the goalie alone or else cause both matts wanted to teach them by the end cause they hadn't learned to leave matt alone (if u haven't watched one of our games that sentence probably will seem confusing) talk to ya later
Katy

first PT

today I went to PT. it wasn't that bad cept for the weird shocking machine Mike hooked up to my leg. I can already bend my knee to 90 degrees and can straighten it the whole way out :) was there for a while and yeah that's pretty much it for everything exciting about today's PT. Already trying to beg mom into letting me go back to school so I don't go insane in this house but other than being able to go the SOCCER!!!!!!!! game friday(and hopefully saturday) and the rally on thursday(which is in school but only for an hour and then i have to go home:( that's all i get to do :( BOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :...( (that was supposed to be me crying:) talk to ya later!
Katy

pneumonia, exercises, Sweetie and grandma, and Matt

found out today my mom has pneumonia and it looks like she's having a LOT of fun w/ that! i actually did a whole entire exercise thingy today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm so proud of myself and i didn't even mess up and make my knee do something it isn't supposed to do for a couple of months like i did yesterday! i'm really very proud of myself. Sweetie got a really good workout today cause grandma and grandpa Goswick came over while mom and dad where at the ER and Sweetie kept jumping on the bed( which i didn't completely mind but it was driving grandma insane :) so Sweetie kept being put on the floor and she would go back and on the floor again and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth!!! it made my morning very interesting :) o yeah the exercises took me about 2 hours to finish and i have to do the same thing 2 more times today(course i should've done them the same amount of time and times ever since the day after surgery but yeah please don't tell the dr. davison or mike about it!). Matt was really nice and bought a bunch of donuts ok let me ask u! usually if something is on top of a donut or cupcake isn't it usually a sugar label thing??????????????? Well the one i ate wasn't but it still tasted pretty good ;) anyways we had a lot of fun laughing at THAT!
Katy

exercise time!

Yesterday started doing exercises and boy was THAT fun! it took me like 20 mins. to wake up my quads or something because they sure weren't moving! all of a sudden though they kinda woke up and I was able to start doing the stuff. i have to do 3 sets of 10 of everything 3 x's a day so this is going to be really tiring cause it took me forever to do just 1 set of an exercise. and THANK GOD FOR THAT WONDERFUL ICE MACHINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know how I would've survived the pain by now if all I'd had was some frozen corn to ice my leg! I had fun putting my leg back in the brace it had been in for a couple of weeks cause one of the incisions was right where a painfully hard plastic section is so I ended up getting my mom to ace the area up and am ignoring it right now since the plastic isn't touching it. I guess I better stop procrastinating my exercises and go do them so I'll write later!
Katy

Doc and Fruit

Went to the doctor this morning and here is a picture of my knee. Tried to take a nap afterwards and that didn't happen. Got a sweet fruit arrangement delivered today from G &G Merringer. Tastes real good.

Doctor Tomorrow

Woolies came over and dropped off some pretty cool stuff. Leg still hurts really bad when I move it. Going to the doctor tomorrow and he's gonna be messin with it. FUN FUN FUN!

Good night

KT

Katy is here

I was bored so I told my mom to write this. I am bored and hot and tired but I don't want to sleep. My foot can't breathe.

Katy

Drugs are Great!

Katy's pre-op picture. She didn't care about anything after receiving the gift of anesthesia.

Ice machine

This is on constanly for the first three days. It hurt horribly getting it on.

This hurts more than I thought it would

OUCH!

Katy is in much pain. She came out of surgery wanting to puke! We brought home an electrical funky ice machine that is attached to her leg. Bandage is from her foot to her hip. Doctor said that all went well. Katy said that she didn't think that it would hurt this bad. She was planning on going up to her room. There is no way that she can get upstairs. She will blog when she is feeling better. Thanks for all the prayers!

Sandi

surgery postponed

surgery's now at 2:30 instead of one.

my leg in a brace before(i never realized the brace was that big!)

surgery tomorrow

well I thought I'd try this out since I think it's really cool and Brett went to all the trouble of making it for me :). tomorrow's surgery and I'm pretty nervous, but I know God's in control and a lot of people are praying for me so here goes nothing!