Why I'm starting this blog

I am starting this blog in hopes that my experience will help other people with what I am going through. I have done a lot of research on the internet on PTT transfer, but one thing I have found is that it is good to actually read what people who have been through this surgery are going through so if I can just help one person with my experience I would feel blessed.

After several years of constant pain from my hip to my toes and three knee doctors telling me I needed to go on anti depressants because my pain was due to depression I FINALLY found a knee doctor that actually knew what he was doing. One look at my foot and he told me "why it's not your knee causing your pain...it's your foot...you have torn your posterior tibial tendon and you need to see a foot doctor immediately"!!! Well hello....why could the other doctors not look at how bad my foot is and realize that was my problem?!?!?! He thought that it was bad enough that he got me in with the foot surgeon in his group two days later.

My first appointment:
They did several x-rays of my foot. The doctor came in to the room and told me he didn't even have to look at my foot to tell me how bad it was. He said my x-rays showed that I had definatly torn my PTT and surgery would be the only way to fix it. I was so relieved to finally have an answer to my pain that surgery did not even register in my mind...only the words WE CAN FIX IT and not with anti depressants. He told me that NO amount of anti depressants would fix my foot because it is a very real problem that can only be fixed with surgery. He proceeded to tell me that it is a very invasive and painful surgery and it would not be a walk in the park.....literally I won't be able to walk for several weeks. HAHA He was so kind to sit with me and let me ask all the questions I needed to ask. This was so different from the previous knee doctors that would just tell me there was nothing they could do and push me out of the room in order to move on to their next patient. I explained to him that I was a pre school teacher and I wanted to try to wait until school was out in June to have my surgery. Concidering my first appointment with him was in December he told me he thought that was an awful long time to wait as bad as my foot was. I scheduled my surgery for June 1st. He told me he would be very surprised if I could hold off until June and he would concider me a wonder woman. : ) I've never been concidered a wonder woman so that made me like him even more. LOL

In mid January I started having pain in my good foot. I made another appointment with my doctor to look at that one. After several x-rays he came in to the room again and asked me if I wanted a matching pair. LOL I told him NO!!! He told me I had not torn my other PTT YET, but by the looks of the x-rays on that foot it was indeed stretched and had tears in it. He put me in a air cast and told me to stay off of it as much as possible to rest it. He also told me he didn't want to get my hopes up because in many cases if you have had one tear you will eventually have the other tear also. I haven't mentioned this yet but I do have the extra navicular bone. The one in my left foot (that's the ptt that has been torn) was taken out about 20 years ago. I still have the extra bone in my right foot so that is not helping my ptt since it is hooked to the extra bone instead of the bone it should be hooked to. I went back to him on March 8th and he told me the air cast didn't work and the only thing that would fix my right foot is the tendon transfer surgery. UGH!!! Well with this in mind I decided that there would be no way I could wait until June for my first surgery. Besides the fact that I am in excruciating pain now I have two surgeries to look forward to. I rescheduled my surgery for March 25th which is only six days from now.

I'm getting really nervous about my surgery but I am trying to take my mind off of it by making sure I have everything I need before hand. I already have a wheel chair and crutches. I have already gotten all my prescriptions filled and my pain meds are sitting on my night stand by my bed...want to make sure I can get to them fast. LOL