Five days until my surgery

I only have five days until my surgery and this will be the last weekend I'll have to get my house in order before I won't be able to do anything for a few weeks so I'm trying to do a major spring cleaning....good thing today is the first day of SPRING!!!! LOL I've found that over the past few weeks I can only stand on my left foot (the one I'm having fixed next week) for short amounts of time before I have to sit down because of the pain. One thing my doctor pointed out to me on my first appointment with him was the very painful knot I have on the inside of my ankle (well right behind my ankle). He asked me if I had ever wondered what the knot was, and I told him yes I had because it is always hurting. He told me that it was my tendon laying in my ankle. It gets bigger and hard when I'm on my foot for a while or if I sit for a while without elevating it. I haven't been able to wear tennis shoes for a few weeks now because they hit me right on my tendon that is now laying in my ankle. Considering the fact that I can't go barefoot either I have found that the best shoes I can wear right now are the crocks with the fur stuff in them. I know they don't have the best arch support, but it's the only thing I can get on my foot at the time that doesn't touch that knot.

I have also had a lot of pain down the back of my calf. My doctor asked me last week if it was like a very bad charlie horse in my calf and I told him he was exactly right. He said that pain is my Achilles tendon (well now I know exactly where that tendon lays) LOL. He explained that since my foot is turned in so bad it is causing problems in my Achilles tendon. One of the things he will do during my surgery is lengthen and straighten my Achilles. He told me that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line and since my foot is turned in so badly there is not straight line between my Achilles and where it should be hooked to. Not a very easy way to explain that one, but maybe that makes since. : )

I went grocery shopping last night in hopes to get things my husband and 14 year old daughter can cook for the next few weeks. I sure hate depending on them to do my cooking since I am trying to loose weight. I took her with me so she could help me pick out things that would be easy. I'm very lucky that she enjoys cooking. One thing they told me when I had my pre op at the hospital is that I need to wash in anti bacterial soap the day of my surgery. Well let me tell you, that was not easy to find unless you are looking for hand soap. I did finally find safeguard anti bacterial bath soap so that is what I got. I'm not sure if that's what I was supposed to get or not, but it did say antibacterial and it is bath soap so I got it. I did stock up on lots of saltine crackers and ginger ale since I've been told that the pain medicine (Oxycodone) they gave me can cause nausea. I'm hoping for the best (which is NOT getting sick) but preparing for the worst just in case. Thank goodness they also gave me phenergan to take too. I know that works for nausea because I already take that for my migraines.

Well, I'm not getting much work done in the house since I'm taking a much longer break than I thought so I better get back to work.