Showing posts with label Getting hard cast off. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Getting hard cast off. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 11, 2010




My second Post Op appointment was three days shy of seven weeks from my surgery date. They removed my cast and said I was healing very good. His exact words were "well look at that perfect arch" That thrilled me since I have NEVER had any thing about me be perfect. They left the butterfly tape on my incisions and told me to let it fall off by itself. I told him he didn't have to worry about me pulling anything off. LOL After removing my hard cast they took me to x-ray to make sure my bone is fusing correctly. As you can see in the x-ray photo you can hardly see where he cut my bone and shifted it up. I included a photo of my heel where they put the screw in. I had been having a pain (it felt like I had stepped on a nail) in my heel for a few days. After removing my cast he found that they had accidentally left a stitch in my heel that was pulling and causing it to hurt. I feel better now that he removed that stitch.
Now if I can just get used to not having a hard cast on to protect my foot. They placed me in an air cast for at least the next five weeks and I will start PT next Monday. Not looking forward to that at all since I figure it will be uncomfortable and painful.