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86129squids
Posted on Saturday, August 28, 2021 - 10:33 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Hey... I have come to believe I will need surgery to repair my left foot. How to deal with...?

I have been walking with a cane, as of two years ago, but not always. Yeesh. and, ow.
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Chauly
Posted on Saturday, August 28, 2021 - 11:33 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Get recommendations and references before you leap. Foot repairs are delicate and take a long time to fully heal (heel?). My wife has had surgery on both feet, and it is a long row to hoe.
Good Luck, Brad!
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Aesquire
Posted on Saturday, August 28, 2021 - 11:34 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

You want to have a walker handy, and arrange the furniture etc. so you can navigate while impaired by boots/casts. Cooperate and listen to the Physical Therapists. ( I always get the most lovely ladies )

And be careful of the pain meds. It's really easy to get stupid and addicted, and to double dose. I highly recommend having a notepad with the drugs and religiously write down every pill & time. That way, 15 minutes or an hour after you took a pill, when you are still hurting but in the fog forgot you already dosed, you won't just take another and spend the rest of the day sleeping to Youtube videos.

It's a catch 22, you want/need some pain relief so you can move around, and keep up the circulation, and get in the important physical therapy. ( mostly stretching and moving so it all doesn't fuse together into a club, and I mean your legs, & whole body, not just a foot )

Pain inhibits healing. Because you hold yourself stiff.

OTOH, any decent pain killer is a problem, just because taking them stops the pain. Doesn't have to have physical opiate chemical addiction properties. As a friend who's had Chronic pain for decades told me when he discovered ( Redacted Pain Med ) , "It stills the chorus". When you get a certain age, and have cumulative damage, low level pain is a background. It can be life altering to change that.

So balancing pain management and dependency is a highly personal and important thing.

After all the scary Doom stuff, Good luck, and hope you get Hot Therapists. My cyborg knees really helped my knee pain. ( cutting them out helps, funny that ) And the recovery takes some time, and a lot of that is your attitude. And kitten memes. ; )
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86129squids
Posted on Saturday, August 28, 2021 - 09:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Yee... Dang, and thanks.

"Look before you leap, leap before you look back." A life working on my feet, oh well. Desk job, I shall haz. Or something.

I once worked for a skinny restaurant GM, one of my best bosses, and a friend, brother now. He could walk with a cane faster than I could walk. Had a bad knee. He's doing well now.

Gotta geterdunn. This and that.
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86129squids
Posted on Saturday, August 28, 2021 - 09:29 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Patrick, friend, thanks man. If youn's could stand to look at them, I'd send pics of my fugly feet.

Went swimming today, THAT was nice. ; )
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86129squids
Posted on Saturday, August 28, 2021 - 09:39 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

My PCP will be arranging a referral to an orthopedist. Yee, and Ha, whee.

NBD, pain I can deal with.
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