Not your everyday Achilles Tendon injury…in fact, there was no injury.
Yup, you read that right, there was no injury to my Achilles Tendon, not until my surgeon cut it that is. Let’s go back to the beginning…..
Long ago, in a land far far away…lol just kidding. I have had chronic pack pain and issues for the past 10+ years and over time it’s gradually gotten worse. In August 2012 it got so bad that my Dr. said it was time for me to stop working for a bit and take it easy, while we tried to get my insurance company to approve a special therapy for my back. Somewhere in the middle of January 2013 I got up one morning to go to the bathroom and I noticed that my left foot felt weird. I realized that my heel was no longer touching the floor when I walked. The only way I could walk was on my tiptoes which completely threw off my balance and that caused 1 minor and 1 major fall. After the minor fall I had ordered a cane off of Amazon and I was actually using the cane during the major fall.
The next time I went in for my back injections at the surgery center I showed my pain management Dr what was going on. He tried putting a few injections in my heel and foot to see if that helped. While I was there at the surgery center several of the nurses told me I needed to go have it looked at by this Orthopedic Surgeon that was really good and did surgery’s at that center too. Needless to say the injections didn’t work so, I got the appt. with the surgeon. He said that he was pretty sure that he could fix my foot but, what was happening to it was not something that was very common so, before he would do the surgery he wanted me to get a back surgeons opinion. After several months of waiting to get in with the back doctor he did confirm that the foot issue was not related to my back so, another month of waiting to get back in with the surgeon but, we finally got the surgery scheduled, over a year later from when I woke up and couldn’t put my heel to the ground.