Gram's Place

Day 9 I am still in pain, but I’m at least not taking oxycodone any longer.  At least not most days.  Most days I stay on a routine of Tylenol every 4 hours, along with gabapentin and cyclobenzapene 3 times a day. This morning I made a mistake.  I was hopping down the stairs on one foot and I lost my balance and landed full on my surgery foot.  It zinged and shot pain up my leg.   I really hope I didn’t do any damage.  I’ve read that the people who do best on this surgery are the ones who truly do stay off their foot for the first two weeks.  I’ve done so well until now and I’m hoping this one incident doesn’t hurt my progress. I’m going to be real.   Bunion surgery HURTS.  I mean HURTS.  There is no question about that.  I do feel this is the longest lasting pain I’ve ever experienced. I’ve taken all the pain meds this morning that I can, and I still have a nagging pain in my big toe and my ankle.  If I wiggle my toes, the toe pain worsens and feels like my toe is swollen and double i

4 days ago I had bunion surgery. I have known I needed this surgery for years.  But I put it off because I knew it would hurt and quite frankly, it wasn’t worth the pain. However, 10 weeks ago I was walking and overflexed my foot.  I stretched a ligament in the metatarsal area and it wouldn’t stop hurting. A quick visit to an orthopedic surgeon revealed that my foot would likely not get better and surgery was necessary to provide more structure to my foot. The surgery was for four things: 1. Fusion of foot bones 2. correction of hallux valgus 3. removal of bone for graft 4. revision of calf tendon Apparently all of this is necessary because of the severity of my deformed foot. A bunion (hallux valgus) is apparently measured in degrees of deformity.  45 to 50 degrees is considered serious.  My right foot measured in at 50 degrees before surgery. The fusion of the bones allows the bone to heal together, the bone graft apparently enhances bone healing in severe cases like mine, and the ca