Cast off tomorrow!!

I am THRILLED to say that my stitches come out tomorrow and the red cast comes off. I of course will get another cast but I will be down to 3 weeks!! I am guessing this will be the last cast I will have before the walking boot. We shall see...

Cast TWO

This is my lovely second cast. Not so heavy or awkward or uncomfortable. I have had this for two weeks. I will get it off tomorrow and my stitches will be taken out also.

Cast ONE

So this is the first cast the day after surgery. Very heavy, very uncomfortable, but I only had it on for five days so it didn't turn out to be so bad after all.

More Views

You can see the bone better from the side view, but you can also see in from above. Again this is my left foot, but the right WAS exactly the same...

Pictures...FINALLY

This is my left foot. I forgot to take a picture of my right one before surgery, but you can get the idea from this. I am not sure if you can actually see the "extra bone" but you should be able to tell in the next two.

2 Down 4 To Go

So i have been a little busy with going back to work and recovering from work when i get home in the evenings. things have been going pretty good. my shoulders have been bothering me from the crutches, but somehow i seem to be getting used to it. today and yesterday in the later part of the afternoon my foot has really been bothering me at work. maybe it is too much moving around. it has been in a throbbing mode lately and shooting little pains. i was sort of expecting it because naturally i was warned about the pain.
...just waiting for my next Dr visit. it turns out it may be a little earlier than i thought. i was coming out of the bathroom earlier and the next thing i knew i was on the floor. i landed with all of my weight on my toes and i ended up on the floor face down. i am not really sure what happened. i guess i lost my balance. i am really concerned that i may have done something to hurt my foot, but it is not hurting any more than it has been in the last few days so i guess we'll wait till morning to see. Candace told me i should call my doctor in the morning and let him know what happened. she's worked with him and knows how particular he is so she said i'd probably be best giving him a call. i am trying not to worry about it after all they do put a cast on for protection so hopefully it did its job. i know my foot did not move i am just concerned about the weight i may have put on it. i just don't want this fall to prolong my recovery. i am in a serious countdown to getting rid of these crutches so i don't want anything to happen that will possibly make me have to be on them longer.

TGIF

This week turned out to be pretty rough. it took a lot more out of me going back to work then i thought it would. i could hardly stay awake today. this morning i tripped and put a little weight on my foot which hurt quite a bit for quite a while. i ended up leaving work early. but i think everything is ok. it feels like it has been feeling so i don't think i hurt anything. brandon has been so great. he has been doing absolutely everything. i am so thankful that i have him to take care of me!



i now have four weeks and four days left on crutches and one week and two days left with my red cast and my stitches. my doctor also told me when i was there last that we were going to work on moving my foot the next time i go and i am a little nervous about that. i am going to try to remember to bring my camera when i go to get my stitches taken out for documentation...
it actually seems to be going by a lot quicker than i though it would. i believe once i get into my walking boot it will be smooth sailing. although i am sure there will be some pain involved with physical therapy but i am sure i can get through it.

i am a little worried about how i am going to maneuver at orientation on the 10th. hopefully there won't be too much walking around and i'll manage.

that's all for now

Back to Work Yesterday

and it was a rough one. whew! getting around on crutches is a lot harder than i ever thought. it takes so much strength. i am definitely going to build some upper body strength! can't say that bothers me. i came home got in bed and crashed for about two hours. i am in the count down though. only four weeks and five days left on crutches! yea! small victories...
second day was not so bad, i have to say that i learned from the first one not to try to do so much. i moved rolled around today instead of walking around. at least tomorrow is friday and they two days of just rest!!

Early Doctor Visit

I woke up EXTREMELY frustrated with the stupid cast on my foot and the fact that my toes were still turing purple so I called my doctor and he said to come see him. So he took the funky cast off and i got to see the cut. It was pretty grody looking. I've got eleven stiches and will have them for two more weeks. I now have a nice little red cast on my leg that is about 40 pounds lighter than the last! I also got to see the pictures of my foot during surgery. It was really disgusting but pretty interesting. He had the big hunk of bone he removed in tweezers in picture. ick! oh well, i am on the road to getting better and so far today the foot feels good.

Backwards Father's Day

today has been ok. my dad came to visit me for father's day. i know that's backwards...

i attempted the stairs today. it turns out it is A LOT of work. i think i will do better once i get more practice. i have discovered something in or a part of the cast is really bugging me. it maybe because i have began spacing out my pain medicine more and i can actually feel my foot bugging me. i don't know. this thing is just SO awkward. my toes still turn really dark when i stand up and that really concerns me. i am thinking i am not going to wait until the 25th to go to the doctor. i may move it up to friday because he said i could come as soon as ten days after the surgery. i guess we will just see how the week unfolds.

The Day Started Well...

I got up this morning and took a shower like a normal person... with a bag taped to my leg and half of my body hanging out of the shower! but still it felt wonderful. i moved around a little more today but the toes are still turning purple when i am up for too long. it makes me wonder how long they are going to do that. i have yet to attempt the stairs again and i am really not sure when i am going to try. i am sort of scared of hurting myself. the foot is not feeling too hot at the moment. i am sitting in the bed with it propped up and iced down and if feels like i have a 45 pound weight sitting on it! i am not doing well with not being able to do things for myself. i guess it is part of my control freak"ness" taking over. brandon is doing very well. he is doing EVERYTHING i ask him to do and i am very bitchy at times. i have tried not to be today with it being his b-day. 11 days till i get this heavy ass thing off my leg and a new one put on...

Purple Toes...Not Good

i get up this morning and sat in my chair to brush my teeth and wash my face. by the time i finished my toes were purple. i sort of panicked! i rushed back to bed and pretty much stayed the whole day with my foot in the air. mom and les spent most of the day with me because brandon had to go back to work today. this whole thing is much more frustrating than i thought it would be. i am getting very itchy in there and again it is heavier today. good thing is i only have only have twelve more days in this cast. i will get a new one when i visit him on the 25th and hopefully the stitches out too. tomorrow is brandon's birthday and i am really bummed about not being able to do anything! i did get him a good prize though so hopefully that will make up for it.

Bring On The Drugs!!!

Wednesday didn't end too badly...especially with 2 Lortab every four hours. i think i may have moved around too much because the pain got to me at one point. Sleeping was a little difficult with my leg on a styrofoam wedge but overall the day wasn't too bad.
Thursday was a little more difficult. more pain and the cast seems to get heavier by the minute...

Crutches SUCK!

The PT at the hospital decided i needed to practice on the crutches while under the influence of all sorts of drugs... it did not turn out well. I ended up getting really pissed off and really nauseated from all of the moving around so soon after doses of morphine. UGH! I finally got home about noon. after being under general anesthetic and getting a couple shots of morphine i had to climb the stairs on my butt! brandon and his dad had to pick me up once i got to the top so i could stand on my one foot and hobble on stupid crutches to my bed! i took two lortab and keflex immediately as instructed by my doctor and was in and out of sleep for the rest of the afternoon. oh and i forgot to mention how sore my throat is from the tube during the surgery AND the bruise i have on my thigh from a tourniquet cutting off blood circulation to my leg!! like i need more things to bug me!

This Gets Pretty Icky

The surgery was at 7:30 yesterday morning. It took about two hours! My doctor's plan was to go in and scrape the tendon away from the accessory bone and shave a little off of the end of the navicular bone (the one that's supposed to be there) because the tendon has to reattach to bleeding bone then drill a hole through the bone, pull the tendon through and suture it back on itself. It is all called a Kidner Procedure... WELL, of course, the tendon was not long enough for that. he told my mom and brandon that he tugged and tugged on it (ICK) but had to anchor it with a suture and a titanium screw. he said that he could hang with all of his weight on the suture he put in and it would not break so i am guessing that is a good thing. the screw does make me a little nervous though! i am interested to see what my foot looks like!

The Big Surgery

i don't know if any of my friends ever noticed that my feet don't look like everyone else's does. they are pretty funky looking. where everyone else generally has an arch i have an extra bone. it is technically called an accessory navicular bone even though it is not really accessory. i know it is confusing. at some point in your life the bones in your feet grow and separate, well mine didn't... go figure. i tend to be the girl of extra bones... extra rib (other than the one women have anyway) and an extra vertebrate because my tailbone is not fully fused together, yea i know pretty weird. ANYWAY! i had to wear wooden arch supports in my shoes when i was little and i never wore them cause they hurt like hell. when i was about fifteen an orthopaedic surgeon scared the crap out of me telling me what kind of surgery i'd have to have to correct it so i tried to forget about it. little did i know my pain would only get worse. it progressively got worse eventually got to the point where if i stood for more than thirty minutes at a time i would be in pain for the next day or so. i finally decided to go to go see the surgeon that operated on my mom's knee last year because i began having shooting pains up the side of my right leg. so come to find out it is this jacked up bone i have in my foot causing me this pain. he told me of a procedure that could be done to remove the bone and relieve the pain... i was a little apprehensive until i saw his wonderful colleague and he convinced me the surgery would be the best thing for me.
so i am starting a day late on this because i just got the idea after reading my friend leslie's blog. i had the surgery yesterday on my right foot! i don't have before pictures but i will have several after pictures and my left foot looks exactly the same as my right, so i will be able to compare pictures to that one.
i figure this might entertain me while i am laying in bed with my foot propped up and it might also help me keep my mind off of the pain!