May 20, 2024 THE HOPEFULLY NOT SO BORING ADVENTURES OF ELDER WILLIAMSON CHAPTER LXXXIII

aaaaahhhhhhwwwooooch.. why?.. so i was definitely joking about the whole having to use a phone flashlight to do surgery because the power was out.. surely they have some generator or are gonna have some other way to do it.. nope.. this doctor lady legit just had her assistant guy hold up his phone with the flashlight on it.. and then just dove in and did a lot of cutting and so forth.. and there was a lottt of blood.. the numbing stuff hurt a tOn too cuz it's just some random needle they stick in your toe.. so it took probably like 45 min or less.. and i ended up with bandages around my two big toes, and an alarming amount of blood soaking thru.. sooo i wasn't sure how badly she had done it.. until the next day when i was supposed to take the bandages off.. annnd i discovered that i literally look like frankenstiens monster on my toes.. i'll include pics down below cuz ik you don't believe me.. but i legit feel like i was a victim in a saw movie.. and i lost.. idk where this lady got her degrees from, but i think they need to be revoked.. i think it's definitely safe to say i won't be doing much walking for the next week or so.. right now it's wednesday, tomorrow is supposed to be zone conference (i don't think i'm going to thAt).. and i am not supposed to get the stitches out until next wednesday sooo i have 7 days from now.. and i have no idea what to do with that time.. and it was prettty painful for the first 2 days.. i mostly just slept, read a little bit of scriptures, and texted some yellow dots.. pretttty boring.. some more days have passed.. still nothing is going on.. soooooooo boring.. and the recovery is so slow.. ik the doctor said it was going to take a week of not walking.. but i definitely didn't believe that.. not being able to walk as a missionary (at least here) kinda eliminates 97% of all things we even dO.. sooo my life is on pause for now.. and the only things i have to pass the time are sleeping, reading the book of mormon, a guitar... and that's pretty much it.. but i'm realizing now that i have a couple other things on the gospel library i could be using.. my main problem is just that the internet is slower than a mac n cheesecake, and so is my recovery.. especially since now one of the thingies is infected.. a classic.. i saw that one coming.. cuz why wouldn't it? i would've been a lot more surprised if there weren't any infections involved in a dominican surgery.. and it was pretty bad on sunday.. we went to church, and i walked there, but it was a littttle painful.. and then the entire time i was just kinda dying.. and i could feel my foot swelling up, and the unfortunate liquids oozing out.. and then once we got home i started having blurry vision, and a headache forming.. and for a little there i thought i was about to just die.. mostly cuz the last like 4 times i've called my mom, she's told me that infections are dangerous, and that there was some missionary that died from an infection.. sooo i was like ahhhh great this would be such a stupid way to die.. sooo i lied down, but thought maybe i shouldn't let myself fall asleep.. just in case i don't wake up.. yk, like the don't go into the white light kinda thing.. buttt then i was like.. maybe i'm just low on salt.. so i ate some salt, drank some water.. annnd that helped a little.. and then i remembered that i'm for some reason prone to migraines, so i took a migraine pill, and then i was chillin.. but i texted the doctor to see what i should do about my infected toe, and she said to stick it in salty water for 20 min, and see what happens.. so i'm gonna do that once my headache is a little less strong.. that actually worked! i have no idea how, but it like sucked out all the pus and stuff.. sooo ig the doctor knows what she's talking about.. anyways, that's pretty much it for this week.. have a great week, love you guys!