tomgr’s AchillesBlog

I am really hating these crutches around this time of year in the snowy and icy weather. Have already had a few close encounters with some slippery steps and sidewalks. Plus I have to finish my shopping too. Ugh. The crowds and the crutches should make for a fun trip.

I think the one thing that i am most bummed out about is that I have to miss our annual christmas eve hockey game. One of the few things I really look forward to this year. And I am stuck being a spectator. At least I can go and document it, but would rather be playing. Will just have to shoot for next years get together.

I am 2 weeks out of surgery to clean out the infection and tendon suture removal. The wound isn’t healing as fast as the doctors think. So instead of being off the crutches, I am on them until further notice, with the stitches from the most recent surgery still in there till the incision completely heals up. I am back to NWB and the doctor was nice enough to give me his cell number so I can send him a picture of the wound every week so I don’t have miss work to come into the office.

So the holding pattern continues…..

Went to see the Doctor last Thursday for what was to be the last followup from the surgery. The doc looked at the abscess and said "I want to get that opened up, in the OR." Not news I really wanted to hear, but better to be safe than sorry. So Monday, they put me under, and reopened the old incision and abscess. While in there, they looked at the tendon, which has completely healed, and also found what they think might have been causing the infections. They were coming from the inside out. The sutures in the tendon were rubbing against the inside of my heel. So they removed those and stitched me back up. I am back on crutches and no weight bearing for 2 weeks, but hopefully they got everything figured out.