March 15th 2019

Another two weeks past, filled with wedding planning, meetings and green card application.

This day we finally finished the Green card application and sent it in, so in the evening we decided to celebrate our hard work. We got dressed and ready to go to a bar in Capitol Hill. We took the bus from Redmond to the UW link to Cap Hill. While at the bar we had some drinks and dance, we had a good time! Since we had a long commute we had leave around 11 pm so we would make the last train and bus. But I wanted to dance to one more song and have a bathroom stopp, so we did. When we did leave we were in a hurry, so we decided to take a shortcut through a park with stairs. We started jogging down, Nick ahead of me and that’s when the bad luck struck. While jogging down the stairs I twist my ankel, sits down and start crying in pain. At this moment I thought I just twisted my ankle so I try to move it and get up but it hurt sooo bad. When I realize I can’t stand, and we are now gonna miss the last bus home, Nick decided to call his parents. It’s close to midnight, luckily they were awake and came to pick us up. Nick carried me down the stairs and in the car, I’m just crying of pain. We drove to the emergency room.

At the hospital, I explained what happen. They took off my boot and I could see my swollen and blue foot. They took an x-ray of my ankle and came in and said everything is fine, we said it’s not the ankle that hurts it’s the foot and I showed them. So they had to take another x-ray. While waiting for the results I was just in crazy tears and all I could think of was the wedding that was in a month. When the doctor came in and gave me the news that my foot was broken, my whole world came crashing down and all I could say was “No no no no no” and I blacked out, I don’t remember anything of what the doctor said. I’m just hysterically crying and thinking of the wedding and that this is a nightmare!

We left the hospital early in the morning March 16th, with my foot in splint cast. The pain was so bad and it felt like the splint was on too tight so on Sunday March 17th Nick and I went to the urgent care, they loosened the bandage a little and prescribed me some good painkillers.

On Monday March 18th, four weeks until the wedding, I had my first meeting with my orthopedic surgeon, he undid the splint and looked at my foot, they took x-rays again and explained what kind of fracture it was, a fracture of the fifth metatarsal which he said will take 4-6 weeks to heal. I didn’t needed a cast so he gave me this hard sole shoe, and crutches and not to put weight on my foot. We also ordered a knee scooter, a pink one with a basket!

The weeks following up to the wedding was not as planned or very fun if I’m being honest, I was stuck in bed all day and If I had to move I either had to jump on one leg, use crutches, use my knee scooter and a lot of help. I spent a lot of days and nights crying and wanting to cancel the wedding, but everything was already booked and my family from Sweden already had their tickets. To all of the future brides out there, my advice for your time before the wedding is to stay home and be careful because breaking your foot one month before sucks and it was a nightmare I don’t wish for anyone! I am very grateful for all the wonderful people I had around me that helped in every way they could and supported, encouraged, and told me everything would work out with the wedding, I wouldn’t had made it without them <3