Start of Week 7 Update - NWB Haglunds
November 28, 2011 by tinat702
I don’t have very many new updates since my next appointment isn’t until 12/9…but I do have some newer pictures of the recovery. I am so happy most of the scab’s are all gone.
I have started to apply some BIO-oil to help reduce the scaring. No-one has mentioned how much your skins starts to peel from inactivity I’m assuming. The atrophy in my surgery leg is unbelievable. I don’t know if my leg will ever look the same.
I have started having more movement in the tendon - flexing toes up and down and side to side. Feels really good. I can feel the tendon pulling up my calf and there is no pain so I assume that is a good sign.
Happy Healing everyone!
I had a post surgical wound complication that caused me a lot of shedding/peeling. It resolved in about 3 weeks.
About the atrophy, my operated leg is about 35% smaller than my healthy leg. I do not know if the atrophy is permanent. I do know three people with the same injury, all have one leg smaller than the other, five years after surgery.