Getting Ready and Getting Things Done...

I have totally been so bad at keeping this blog up to date!
I've gone on a couple fun trips since I last posted. We went up to Lava Hot Springs for a weekend, and then the next weekend we went to Bear Lake with my family, my aunts, uncles, and cousins--it was a blast!
Today has been a busy day, but very fun and productive!!! We went to Walmart and my wonderful mother bought me a new cabinet/stand for my room to give me some more room to put things in and on, some of those plastic drawers, and then I went home and went through tons of stuff! My drawers have turned out WONDERFUL--I put all my ribbon, buttons, fabric, scrapbook stuff and craft things in them! Talk about organizing and looking so much better!!! The cabinet still needs to be put together, but once that's done, I can finish all my organizing! I'm loving it!
Throughout these last few days, I've been working on bows for my nieces for school (to match their new school clothes), working on the organizing and cleaning stuff, and getting all my school stuff ready and together (the wonderful going to buy all my school books--the books actually aren't that bad, I love them...just not the amount you have to pay for them).
And the final thing and probably one of the biggest going on is...I'm having surgery on Monday the 23rd! The end of July I went into see the hand specialist, because my left thumb has been subluxing and is very unstable (due to my ehlers danlos). Well, the doctor injected the joint with cortisone injection and wanted me to follow up in a couple weeks to see how it was. (He told me the shot should help with the pain, but it won't fix/help the instability.) I went back for my follow-up this past week and I told him that the shot helped take away the pain for about a week, but then it started coming back and is just gradually getting worse. So, the decision...fusing my left thumb at the mp joint (the joint just below the knuckle)!!! I'm kinda nervous, but the doctor is an amazing doctor, I'm ready for my thumb to get better, and I know that things will go well! The doctor said what they'll do, is take a small bone graft from another place (probably my forearm), cut out the cartilage and part of the bone in that thumb joint, put the bone graft between the bones, and then place pins and wire in--to hold it in place! So we'll see how everything goes--I'm sure great though!
I'll try and post again before the surgery (so within the next week), but I don't know how long until I'll be able to post again after--I'll try my best to, it just depends how I'm feeling--but I'll check on here for any comments, I'll be checking my email, and I'll have my phone with me if anyone wants or needs to get ahold of me!
I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the last part of your summer!!! :)