Foot Surgery

What was supposed to be an hour and a half surgery took three hours. I was only supposed to be asleep, not under. Well, everything started out just fine. I went to sleep just fine, but then apparantly I started moving around too much, so they put me completely under. To make it all worse, Dr. Jolley found a lot wrong with my foot. There was a bunch of arthritic spurs in my foot, there was a freshly broken bone that he removed, and basically my foot was completely trashed. No wonder it hurt so badly to walk on it. Here is a picture of my xray. It shows that there were two plates put in, instead of the one he was planning on. He said that the rep who brought in the plates took some pictures and if they turned out good, he is going to get me a copy of them.



Here is a pic of the foot after it had been cleaned. There is still some saline solution on it.



Here are a couple pics from before it was cleaned. Pretty nasty!



As anyone who knows me can imagine, I had a hard time looking at my foot. The nurse said I got really green when I was looking at it. Thank goodness she was cleaning it and not me. Also, you can thank mom for the pictures, because I never would have been able to look at my foot long enough to take the picture, lol.

Dr. Jolley said that he remembered that I love shoes and I love my feet looking good in shoes/sandals, so he was mindful of that when he was cutting into my foot. He said that you will barely be able to see the scars and my foot will still look good in sandals. Thank goodness for that! He also said that every time he saw my polished toes, he remembered that I want my feet to look good. I thought that was funny, lol.

I am very thankful that my surgery is over. How I was walking before, I have no clue. At least it is getting better now!