Sunday, January 7, 2018

2017 Foot Surgery Update

You guys, I can bend my Franken-toe. I haven't been able to do that in YEARS!

It looks like this surgery went really well and despite having some adverse reactions to the anesthesia and pain meds (vom city), things have gone a lot better than in the past.

I'm 10 weeks out and still working on re-building strength, but the pain is mostly gone. The bone is healing slower than they thought, but it's still on track, regardless. I'll start PT soon and plan to be ready to hike by the end of February when the Mrs. and I head to the PacNW redwoods.

As always, get in touch for photos of the really yucky stuff, but here are some progress pics.




A few weeks post-op
About a month post-op

  
My growing collection of hardware
My wife matched my toes to my bruises and
theywere perfectly timed for Halloween!



My RN mom taking out my stitches

About 2 months post-op







The top of my foot continues to swell
You can see all the entry points including
the dot up top and the series of dots down
below, where they pulled my ligaments
and the big holes in the middle where
they  secured everything together. 






Not bad, eh?