Big Big Thank Yous to Everyone

I want to say THANK YOU to everyone who has helped me and prayed for me during this dog bite incident. I want to say Thank You to first of all to Penny and Rana for coming to the emergency room with me and staying while I got sewn up and put back together, and Penny for taking me to my rehab hospital "Che' Hughes" in Providence. To Andrea, Jonathan and Luke for opening their home and Andrea(my BFF) for being my 24 hour nurse/personal assistant for the first week. I truly believe I would not have healed like I have so far without your help, in fact I am not sure what I would have done. I know that God provides but I sure am glad He provided you! To Poochie Mama, Cindie for taking care of my babies... To the Ladies at the best salon in the world, All About You.. Rana, Bonnie, Linda, Trang and everyone for your kindness and for taking care of my clients, you guys are the best and I can't wait to come back!! To Ericka for bringing me food, entertainment ,the doggies food and bandages and your sweetness, I am glad that you are my friend. Kristen for taking care of the Animal shelter stuff and organizing so much of the stuff that I needed...To Brandi for being my personal driver. To Phillip for getting dog food...To all of the people who raised and gave much needed funds... To Misti, Heather, Julie, Jennifer and Suzanne you girls really helped me out so much...you really stepped up and I am so thankful for all of the treats and meals you brought to my home. My doggies really liked the treats too Suzanne, thanks for thinking of them. To The Village Church and the staff there, yall are amazing and I appreciate everything! You have truly blessed me! For the sweet cards Rebecca and TVC staff. To all of the phone calls and sincere concern. To Penny, the best Mom I never had! You are so great to check on me everyday to make sure I am getting along ok. You are great. Thank you so much to Amy and Dr. Patel you have no idea how your generosity has not only helped me but touched my heart...If I forgot anyone please know that it was not intentional and I am pretty high on pain meds even as I type now, just know that I thank God for each and everyone of you, that you are amazing and I love you. I hope the circumstances never require me to do the same for you, but if it does, I hope I can ride in and save the day for you sometime. Thank you, so much...love Lisa Allen p.s.as I read this over it feels like and Oscar acceptance speech, in this case I think we could just drop the O and call it "scar acceptance".heehee I don't know...what?? I am high and going to bed....love yall

Update, more pictures, skin is dying!

Hey everyone, this is Ericka blogging for Lisa... just took a few pictures of her progress. Looks pretty gross but I hear it's supposed to look like this?? I know her doctors look at the blog, so hopefully they'll let us know if we need to come in. Lisa is doing well, just swollen and sore. Please keep her healing in your prayers!

Update

I went to see the best Dr. in the world...Dr. Patel and his amazing nurse Amy. He took out all but three of the external stitches. He was very gentle but it still hurt some . He said I had a lot of fluid building up in the ankle, foot, toes areas so he gave me a prescription for a water pill to help get rid of it. He also said that I have an area of necrotic tissue that will eventually just fall off but we have to wait and see how deep that will be...I am still in a lot of pain and I have to keep it elevated all the time. Brandi Howard took me to the Doctor and drove me around to get medication and medical supplies this afternoon, she also took update pictures but we will have to add those later. Just know that I am healing well but this is a long road kind of a deal. Thank you Dr. Patel you are amazing....Amy you are a blessing! I love yall.

The process of healing...

WARNING TO THE SQUEAMISH....graphic pictures below.

Doing much better.... went to the doctor yesterday, everything looks good so far. Despite the pictures below (warning), no infection. As you can see, Nurse Andrea has become my primary caregiver, and she's doing a great job!

Thank you all for your continued prayers!

Blessings...

Wow I can not begin to express my gratitude for all of the blessings that have come my way through this ordeal. I am so thankful for The Body coming together and providing so much of the things that I needed. It completely took the stress of being unable to work off my mind so that I can consentrate on healing. I needed that, desperately. This is the first time I have ever been laid up for an extended period of time. I have never really been injured, Praise God. I have to say I really prefer being on the giving side of things, but like I said I am so thankful to everyone for stepping up. Especially for Andrea, who handled everything for me, as even now I am quite high on pain meds. Speaking of ...these things rock! They are like UH MAZE ING. Anyway I will update with more pics later so we can gage my progress. Love yall....L.

BOO BOO

I have a boo boo. See pictures below. See Andrea's blog for the major details.

click on her blog: www.andjonbabyluke.blogspot.com

Please blog family,....say a prayer for quick healing.

Lisa

White hot molten cake and ....

I will just let you know upfront that the end of this post may be a little gross for some people so just be warned...So I went to dinner with my sweet friend Brandi last night. We went to Chilis and sat down in a booth at the end of the isle. We chatted for a few minutes and eventually pulled out the menus and right off, as if guided by laser beams my eyes spotted this "NEW MENU" item that was accompanied by a glamor shot of the featured treat. It was this white hot molten chocolate cake dessert thingy. Basically it was warm white cake with warm white chocolate sauce and a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream topped with more white chocolate sauce and drizzled with a tiny bit of tangy raspberry sauce and more white chocolate shavings on the tippy top. Probably not on the "guiltless" menu but I quickly scanned the page for those words, I held out hope but it was in vain. It literally took 2.5 seconds for my eyebrows to go all the way up to my hairline and my finger to affix to that glossy picture of goo and to look at my server and say "I will have that". I wiggled in my seat with sweet anticipation for it to get there. I think Brandi was still sitting there. I think she was saying stuff to me, I can remember seeing her mouth moving...so I am sure she was communicating something....but my attention was seriously on each tray that came out of the kitchen area and me willing my cake to come out to me. It was like I was getting something I had always wanted, but I just had to wait one more minute.... and the waiting was killing me!!!! Then...there she was, my amazing server, my new friend, she set the tray down and there it was...even better than I remembered. She reached in front of me to set the plate down and the smell from the plate was this warm sweetness that seemed so familiar yet so foreign. I have been dieting for what seemed like forever. Mamas home. Come to me. Oh, the cake was warm and chocolate was warm and sweet. I had some kind of fish thingy dinner too ...back to the cake. Oh it was amazing. I was so happy. All of a sudden I heard something that sounded like someone pouring soup on a slab of concrete and my attention is momentarily diverted from my bliss. I look down the isle to see a little boy about 8 or 9 years old and he is standing behind this puddle and he has his hand over his mouth and his head held out away from his body. His eyes were as big as saucers and they were darting back and forth. It does not take very long and before people are backing out of his way and grabbing their jackets and purses in disgust. Then he projectile vomits again. This time people just leave the restaurant in a huff. I, on the other hand say, "aw thats a shame" and immediately go back to my heavenly concoction. MMM warm chocolate. I mean I am sure he had parents somewhere...right? I was not going to let a little vomit get in between me and my cake. They could have called for an all out evacuation of the joint and I would have died there with my warm white chocolate cake. My love for a moment. Then here comes my other friend GUILT....but I will save that for another day. Pray for my weakness, my friends, as it seems all it takes to sway me from my current path of health, is a glossy picture of whipped sugar and lard. Sigh....L.

I was like Holy crap!

So I go in today for my weekly weigh-in at Weight Watchers, as most of you know I do the Core Plan with WW. I love it because I am not restricted as to the amount that I can have...ie 3 grapes is like 4 points...I just can't live that way. So I do the core and just try to eat non processed food, no bread, cupcakes are out too. Basically eating natural meats and vegatables,fruits ect...anyway so I go in today for my second weigh-in after being away since the end of October, since my Asia trip, and I was excited to see how I did for my first week...I lost 10.6 lbs...I about fell out. Seriously I am super pumped! Now I am realistic and I understand that this won't happen every week :( but I am happy with this start! Anyway I will keep yall posted on the progress! Thanks for all the prayers and support!!!! Love L.

Not much going on...

Not much going on lately. I have decided to remove myself from the internet dating pool. I am enjoying not having to get all gussied up to go meet someone who in my opinion wasn't worth the first coat of mascara. I am however excited about A Walk-a-Thon for baby Luke coming up CLICK HERE TO MAKE A DONATION!
http://www.andjonbabyluke.blogspot.com/
I will not be able to be there as I have a spiritual retreat that same weekend...I am super bummed out. But go there to check it out if you want to help them find a cure for neuromuscular diseases. I will be supporting her in prayer for sure...More later, Love yall L.

Game ON!!

Ok people I am back on the weight loss track...no sugar, no crap. Period. Brett Stalcup said one time "if it is crap, and we all know what that is, don't eat it!" So I am not. We (about 7 of us)have started a weight loss pot. Each person who wants in, gives a hundred dollars to the pot and whoever loses the most weight by percentage on June 2nd gets the pot! If you have done the math, that is a pretty good chunk of change. I am gonna win it! Since Asia I have put back on 13 lbs! That is more than a sack of potatoes! I am so disgusted but I was eating everything I could get my hands on. I am not kidding like I went to 3 drive thrus in less than 3 hours. It is a sickness I know. But I just had to have some of those cheesecake chimichangas from Taco Bueno before I signed my life back over to carrot sticks and celery stalks. I love yall and I need prayer again! Prayer for strength, will power, discipline. Oh and thank you for the comments on the man in my pics...that is beautiful Dustin, he is the sound and video guy at The Village. He is pretty huh? I have more pics coming I just have to be able to get them off this crazy disk. Love Lisa....

Asia pics cont...

Belated Asia Pictures