I got my stitches out yesterday. I was so very nervous about a lot of things. I was unsure how it would feel to finally have my foot unwrapped after it has been stable for almost three weeks. It did feel VERY WEIRD to have it free from all the gauze and bandages that had been there since surgery. It wasn't as painful as it was uncomfortable. It felt very strange for them to be moving my foot around after it had not moved for so long.
I sat up and watched while she cut the gauze but when she started to take everything off I had to lay down. I'm the type person that doesn't mind needles (They're not my favorite things but I don't freak out if I have to have one) but I DON'T want to see them or watch them being put in to me. I just didn't think I could look at all the stitches in my foot. Better yet I didn't think i could watch her take them out. The best way I knew how to avoid looking was to lay down so I couldn't see. Michael took pictures of the whole thing so I did get the courage to look at the pictures after we left the doctors office.
It did sting a little on some of the stitches she took out. Not all of them, but some of them. For some reason it was mostly the ones on the outside of my foot. After she took out my stitches (I only had 10...wow I thought I would have had more) she rubbed medicine on my incisions to make sure they didn't get infected. I have NEVER been ticklish on my feet and I told Kris (my doctors assistant) that I never had that problem. As she was rubbing the medicine in to my incisions I was wiggling around and laughing. It really tickled. I had her laughing too. When she finished rubbing it on it hit me....oh man that stings!!! LOL She told me that it was probably stinging where the medicine was going down in to the holes where she had removed the stitches. That only lasted I'm sure for a few seconds, but it was like putting alcohol on a cut so I'm sure more aggravating than anything.
After she finished cleaning my incisions she placed butterfly tape on them. She said that was extra security. As she was doing that she asked me to choose what color cast I wanted. I asked her it she do a tie die cast. LOL She said unfortunately she couldn't. OH WELL...that's ok because my favorite color is purple so that is what I picked.
My doctor came in and looked at my foot and told me it's looking very good and healing up nicely. YAY...that's good news for me because usually if something can go wrong it does so with me. I was very glad to hear that I was on track in my healing process. He had me put my foot on a metal support to make sure that as the cast was curing it would keep my arch (which by the way is a very nice arch which I have NOT had in quite some time). That was not the most comfortable thing to do since nothing but gauze has touched my foot for some time.
This cast is quite different from my other one I had after surgery. My toes were exposed in the splint cast, but they are covered with this one. Since I hate shoes because of that fact this one is very uncomfortable for me. I told myself I could handle it for the next four weeks and I thought I may be able to. The problem is that I broke the outside bone on my foot several years ago and my small toe does not sit right. My doctor told me when he saw my x-ray he took on my first appointment that he could see where I broke it. I told him I had always had problems with it and he said it healed short (whatever that means) My small toe has always poked up for some reason and I have a HARD time finding shoes that don't aggravate me. Well now that I have this cast pressing on that toe it is VERY UNCOMFORTABLE. I kept trying to move my toes last night to get it comfortable, but nothing was working. The way the cast is sitting I can't move my toes freely at all. I have to actually move my last few toes with my hands. If I could have cut this thing off of me I would have. I begged Michael to just cut my toes out so they could be exposed but he wouldn't LOL I have left a message with Kris this morning in hopes they may be able to get me in and fix this. Yay....just got a call back and I have to bear with it until tomorrow morning but at least they could get me in to change it. My appointment is at 8:30. Lord help me make it until tomorrow morning without cutting this thing off of me. : )
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I wasn't thrilled with my hard cast either, the only difference was my first wrapped splint/cast covered my toes completely while my cast stopped short of the toes. I remember when my husband wheeled me out of the doctors I could feel the breeze on my toes and it was soooo cool lol Hope they can fix your cast, but they may have to take it off and put another one on.
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