hey thanks for the email!!!  i was starting to think you forgot about me lol...yeah today is whitneys birthday but i told her i would throw her a mini party when i got back!!!  i am totally out of it today i dunno why i just don't feel very good but i got a ton of picutres we are taking one everyday so we can see how i progress so i will email them to you!!!  i am sorry that you got the flu that really stinks...my family is supposed to come today you know blake and travis and all of them so yeah i hope i am feeling better bye the time they get here...i ate some chicken soup yesterday even though i wasn't supposed to but it tasted really good and i got some cheese cake today my high pain tolerance is really paying off i am aloud to eat anything as long as i don' chew so basically i am shoving stuff in and mashing it with my tounge to avoid the nasty instant breakfast stuff my mom keeps trying to feed me...its skys birthday today to if you want to wish him a happy birthday...okay so i will tell you all about the hospital...i got up at 4 on monday and went straight to the hospital where i had to put on this nasty hospital robe and weird tights a booty things (you will see in the pictures) and then i got my iv in and went into surgery at 7:30 (i fell asleep even before they gave me the anethesia!!!)  and then i kinda woke up in the recovery room but i was still really out of it i kinda remember people looking at me and taking my blood pressure but not really...and then they pushed me down this long hall to an elevator and i heard my mom say "hey i think my daughter went by just now" and then i went up the elevator into the pediatric childrens ward where i got my own room with really fun balloon wall paper but i was still really out of it but it was good cuase the nurses asked me if i could move over to the other bed and i did it by myself so that was good...and then my parents came in and my dad took a ton of pictures (this was like 4 in the afternoon) and then i couldn't open my mouth so my dad went at bought me a note pad and i would write down what i needed OH YEAH most important part my doctors hott son came over the night before the surgery and we played bb and then he actually came to the hospital and watched the surgery and stopped by to say hi after i woke up!!!  any way sorry to confuse you back to the story...so then my dad bought me my cow and then he went home and my mom stayed the night with me and i had to pee like every hour so she kinda got a little frustrated cuase she would have to get up and unplugg all my monitor things and drag my iv thing into the bathroom with me and then i would go to get back in bed and i couldn't breath so i would sit there and try to cough all the junk in my throat out for like twenty min. and then the nurses would come in every two hours and do there check up stuff like temp and blood pressure and give me oxygen cuase i sounded like i couldn't breathe cuase of all the junk in my throat and then mr hunt (doctor who did my surgery) came into check on me at 6:30 and cut off the big bandage around my head and said i could go home after he took some xrays but i still had to wear this little cuff thing on my chin...anyway my dad came at like noon and we took the xrays and went home and i slept like a long time cuase i was still drugged up and then yesterday i went out to lunch with the family to the pool room and ate chicken soup and then my mom started freaking out cuase she thought i was gonna mess up my mouth or something and then it is today and that is like all i have done...sorry to bore you with that but if anyone wants to know what happened to me i am telling them to ask you cause i am not typing that all over again!!!  but mom says i need to take a nap (stupid head) so "i need to turn off the computer and rest for a while...i dont' wanna wear myself out right before the family gets here"  but pleas write back and i will send you pictures!!!

 

love always,

 allyson

 

P.S.- i am so swollen but just on the bottom half of my face so i look kinda like buzz lightyear from toy story lol you will see in the pictures!!! those are all i could fit one of me before surgery one the that same day after!!!  i will send more (one of me yesterday and one of me today) later!!!  miss ya tons