Foot & ankle surgery

3-13-08
I had rt foot & ankle surgery 4 hrs and 7 procedures it's all over but the cryng. Hi ankle scope found 2 torn tendons that fused together with scare tissue, so they were cut apart.The ankle to top foot ligiment on the
outside of my foot was ruptured so they got one out of a cadaver and installed it with 4
plastic screws. Took a wedge cut from my heel
to move it over & put a 2 in. deck screw in it to hold it in place. Broke and realined my big toe. Cut the top and bottom tendons to my toes 2-5 and put temporary pins (8weeks)
Man - thats all i can read for now -
going to take a pain pill & lay down !

Wow. That sounds like some major foot work. What did you do to get to that point? At least the pins are temporary, that way you can "keep it original."

glad to hear you made it thru Wdog, if your mid section starts to grow then you know what type of Cadaver those extra parts came from lol, i bet your glad its over

Thank's
Tull - Thats the thing -I'm to old to give a crap what it looks like. Speaking of the doctor,last summer we talked about getin around to gettin a physical atleast Eric & I.
So I do (in sept) he says I should get a routine colinoscopy,so I do. 5:30 am laying under a sheet w/ nurses and the 25 ish one
notices my odd for NC last name and asks if I know Danny.The nurse the scoped my butt graduated H/S with my son!!! "how's he doing,where's he at,can I get his no.it's been a long time."
I'm glad it's good for ten years.
How about Eric did ya get YOUR physical?
    

Dog and everyone else,

I had the "pleasure" of my first colonoscopy when I was 35. Had another one at 43, after my dad passed away from colo-rectal cancer. I'm a huge advocate of that exam, along with yearly physicals. The PSA test, the reason most guys won't get physicals, can only tell so much. I think the prep for the colo is the tough part. After my last colonoscopy, in the recovery room, the nurse actually asked if I wanted her to pull my finger. She said I couldn't leave till I farted.
Another exam us older, I mean, experienced boaters/skiers should have is a full body dermatology exam. I went in last week, on my birthday, and the doc found a little thing on my lip that he had to remove. It was some precurser to the begining of skin cancer. He said I shouldn't worry, but I should have the exam yearly to keep an eye on things.
Sorry about the speech, but it's pretty important to me.
Like Nike says, Just Do It!

Steve

A guy goes in for his first proctology exam. As he starts to remove his pants, he asks the doctor, who's standing behind him, "where should I put my pants?" The doctor replies, "you can just fold them up and put 'em next to mine."

Steve

NAUTI84 wrote: haven't skated in three weeks. It's still sore and swollen, so I finally broke down and decided to get it checked-out. Got my fingers crossed that it'll get better on it's own!

I waited about 5 weeks before I went in to the doctor with my ankle. He comes in takes a look at it, then the x ray, and asks so you did this a couple days ago? I told him it had been a little over a month, then his eyes got real wide and I hear ... Wow, thats not good. Not too reassuring...

20 years ago I had a stress fracture 2 in above were it was scoped. You could see it very well.Late summer and when I had my physical (in sept)my internist x-rayed my ankle he said I have arthridic changes. He wasn't too conserned. At the ortho doc I got a MRI.Got it shot up with a 2 in needle of lanicane / steroid. It didn't hurt at all, but I thought in was going to come out the other side.The shot really helped a lot!The MRI didn't show everything the surgery was to be 2 1/2 hr it lasted 4 1/2 hr Went in a 12:30 got into recovery @ 7:30 pm.
It was done last thurs. todays wed. and I have VERY little pain. Stoped the oxeyconten and perkiset Mon. @ 6:00 pm I'm not supose to put my foot down for anything for 8 weeks and that's a xxxxx hard thing to do.

Next week if it keeps geting better I'm going to duct tape a garbage big over the cast , crawl in the ski-tique and finnish the glass work on the flour. I sware I am !!

now what happens if you get glass down in that cast?