Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Warning--Might be gross

This could have been really scary.
Close up shot
My super swollen foot
Pretty colors! Red cast

You may not want to look at all of these pictures, but I think they're kind of cool.   The doc took my club foot splint and dressings off today, which was kind of scary and a little painful, to find a very nice looking incision.  Well, two of them really.  There's one at the ankle and another where they had to remove that bone spur at the base of the 5th metatarsal.  I have been having the most pain and discomfort from the bone issues, rather than the tendon.   I'm now back in a regular hard cast and wanted candy cane stripes but because the cast is short they really couldn't do stripes that would make sense, so I settled for all red.  It's festive :)   I go back in one more week for stitch removal and yet another cast.   If anyone has a color request I'm willing to oblige.  Just let me know.

Gotta pack now.  Cleared to go to MD and as long as the weather cooperates we are leaving on an airplane tomorrow, but spending tonight at the hotel near the airport.  I can't wait to get to warmer weather!

3 comments:

  1. Dang! Where did your ankle go? I am glad you are healing well. Travel safely. Happy Holidays!

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  2. I had this surgery 4 weeks ago and my ancle also looked like that! Good to see that this is normal :-)

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  3. My surgery was 12/7/11 and my foot looks the same. I feel better reading these blogs, knowing the recoveries are all similar. But it still sucks. :-(

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