Surgery a success.
On Friday, Oct. 22, 2010 I had the surgery. I was not nervous considering that this was my first surgery. Just anxious to get it over with and start recovering. Did get a little nervous when I looked at my arm band the friendly nurse put on my wrist to find my name, date and the wrong doctors name. I asked why the doctors name was different then the cute Dr. I had just seen on Monday. I knew that this practice had multiple doctors in it but I didn’t think that they shared patients. The nurses became as concerned as I was when I told them this wasn’t the Dr. that said he would perform my surgery. They quickly resolved the issue and told me I was getting my doctor. Relieved, however, since I had only met my doctor for a few brief minutes on Monday and didn’t really form any kind of bond with him, I believe I would have gone with anyone at that moment to fix my injury. My cute Doctor showed up and told my awaiting, wonderful husband that everything was a success. Left the same day with a partial cast on (hard on bottom) and pain meds. Thank God for pain meds. Needed those for quite some time. Stitches came out two weeks later, and the air cast boot went on. Still in need of pain meds. The following day (Nov. 9th) my pt started . My doctor believes in the aggressive therapy, which at the time I was happy about because I wanted to get back to my workouts asap and he had gone through this same injury five years earlier and was back playing soccer which I was happy to hear but after the pain I was having and reading posts about re-ruptures, I wasn’t so sure anymore. Pt was twice a week, non-weight bearing at first, only weight of leg was allowed and I was to do my rom exercises twice a day at home. Unfortunately, I have had pain and discomfort especially at night and have had to use my pain meds. Mostly pain and numbness on the right side of my foot which the Doctor told me that there is a nerve that runs along that side of your foot and he saw it during surgery and moved it to the side. Thus, aggravating it. Someone responded to my post about this pain and said that his decreased at about 10 weeks. This was at 4 weeks for me and I was please to hear that his went away. Six more to go. Also, around the 4 week mark my pt said that I could increase my weight bearing to 50%. Rom was improving but don’t believe I was hitting 50%. Too, scared I guess.
