A few things I discovered yesterday...

So, after visiting my doctor last week, I came home with crutches and the hip to ankle brace I'll be in for 6 weeks.  They told me not to adjust it and that I will wake up from surgery with it on just as it is right now.  I thoughy, "well, it might be a good idea to try and get used to this bad boy so that it doesn't such NEARLY as bad as when they just slap it on and send me on my way."  I have come to realize over the past week that it really is going to suck no matter how you look at it.  The two major break-throughs of understanding that I discovered yesterday is that 1)there is no way on God's green earth that I'm going to be able to sleep comfortably with the brace locked at 0 degrees and 2)my bathroom is NOT set up to have one's leg straight out in front of you.   When on the toilet, there is a wall approximately a foot MAYBE a foot and a half in front of your bent knees.  Haha...funny joke trying to see me sit on the toilet with the brace on last night.  I tried sitting on it sideways and that was a joke as well. If I stay at home, I have NO IDEA how I'm going to do it.  All that is secondary to the fact that the part of my bathroom where my toilet and shower is really isn't big enough to accomdate the crutches either.  I can see another injury following closely behind this surgery.
My only other option aside from staying home (my mom has volunteered to stay with me for a couple days before I go to the boyfriend's to be waited on hand and foot..note:can't wait for that), is to go back home with my mom.  Her house is much larger and more open than mine is, BUT there are about 5 steps to get inside and then the bedroom where I stay is in the basement so we're talking another flight of stairs to sleep in a nice bed OR sleep on the couch which probably won't work well.  Staying at my Mom's also means having to take my dog with me who is normally an inside dog and at Mom's, he would have to be outside.  I'm honestly trying to do whatever I can to stay at my house, but there are pros and cons to both situations and I'm a TERRIBLE decision maker.