Here’s what my cast looked like right after it was opened up…
You can see all the absorbent material they stuffed it with (unnecessary in my case), and the slack angle of my foot (it’s still pretty much the same angle as I had while the cast was intact)
Since I’m going to be going through the [...]
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On the weekend, my experience at the boot fitting was still bothering me - it just didn’t seem like everything was right.
I decided to research how much pain people experience when their angle was adjusted, and whether anyone felt any “tearing” sensation.
I did find one reference to adherence of the tendon to the skin via [...]
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13 days after my surgery, I had my first follow-up appointment.
I was ushered into the exam room, where an Orthopedic Technician wheeled in what looked like a large vacuum cleaner with a special saw-blade attachment. This contraption was to be used to remove my cast.
The technician showed that while the saw looked scary, it actually [...]
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I’ll start numbering my posts with the weeks post-surgery.
The next couple of weeks post-surgery I was in a fixed cast, with strict instructions not to touch the cast down under any circumstances - not even to lightly balance myself.
Further instructions were to keep the leg elevated “23 hours a day” for the first 5 days, [...]
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I had a great night’s sleep after the surgery.
The only pain I felt was from the area of the catheter for the nerve block and pump. I still had the pump shut off, since my leg was giving me no pain whatsoever, but the pain from the catheter eventually became so severe that I decided [...]
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I was scheduled to be the second surgery of the day, but my doctor had actually called me the previous evening asking me to show up early.
Normally I was supposed to show up at 8am for a 10am slot, but since her previous surgery was going to be a short one, she asked me to [...]
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Wednesday was my appointment with the doctor I originally wanted to see - a foot and ankle specialist in the Orthopedics department of a local university hospital.
I visited her in their outpatient center, a beautiful building that was once the headquarters of a high-flying dot com company.
This time the diagnosis was quick and definitive. A [...]
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Tuesday morning, I got a call from the Sports-medicine clinic - They could fit me in at 12:30!
Shortly after that, the university hospital called - they had finally scheduled me for an appointment on Wednesday, and had a tentative slot for me on Thursday for surgery (if it turned out to be necessary).
I decided to [...]
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Monday was the day I tried to get my appointment with the foot/ankle specialists.
I called their office the minute they opened (8:30), but was only able to get voicemail. I left all of my pertinent information, hoping for a call back.
As it turned out, by noon, I still hadn’t heard from them, so I started [...]
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Hello World!
This is the first blog I’ve ever attempted, so I hope it will achieve my goal of being both educational and occasionally entertaining.
I actually wasn’t going to start a blog, but my case has turned interesting (a bit of foreshadowing here), so I thought it’d be worthwhile to record things for posterity.
This first post [...]
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