Ok...so it has been 4 weeks since the surgery...Everything has been healing nicely. I have not been posting much because it was kind of difficult with holidays...shopping ...which I did with the help of my daughter and some online... I have few friends from my older days when I worked for DME company, and so I was able to get a wheelchair for a week at no charge, and my daughter was able to push me around so I was able to do some shopping without putting too much strain on my feet. I have been pretty much mobile on my own since 4 th day after the surgery. First it was only at home with the help of my furniture...So wobbling around keeping steady by holding on to my furniture. After about 7 days I was able to move on my own, with my post op shoes on, but slowly. Right now I am still a little slow...and still walking in my post op shoes in the house as they feel the most comfortable, but when I go outside, I put on my sons gym shoes. They are a little bit wider than my gym shoes and I was able to use them with superfeet insoles which are somewhat rigid, and give me more of a stability while walking without bending my toes too much. The pictures below are from my first post op check up, 8 days after the surgery. I thought that the doctor will only change my dressing but much to my surprise, he said he will remove my stitches. I was not ready for that. I was really happy how my feet looked after the dressing came off. There was minimal swelling, and stitches, I thought looked pretty nice and clean. There was no blood on my dressing or anywhere around my sutures. I thought that Dr. Loder did excellent job. I kept looking at my feet and couldn't believe that my bunions were not there and my feet looked somewhat normal. As normal as expected with the sutures. My daughter said I had Frankenstain feet. I was looking at my feet while I was waiting for my doctor to come in and inspect them, and I had this weird feeling that they are not mine. That they belong to someone else. I started feeling really dizzy. I started seeing white spots before my eyes. Like I couldn't concentrate and I kept feeling more and more dizzy. My husband told me to cover my mouth with my hands and keep breating like that and tilt my head backwards. Apparently I became really ashy...and lost color in my face. I guess I started hyperventilating...It was really scarry and unpleasant feeling that I have never experienced in my life. So the doctor came in, and just started taking my stitches out. It didn't hurt. I just felt little tugging. Then, when all of the stitches were out, there was minimal bleeding ...just couple of drops in the spots where the stitches didn't want to come out and he had to tug harder. He put few 2 bandaids on my feet and said I was all set and ready to go....I don't even remember him saying anything to me, but my husband told me he was telling me the whole time how to take care of my feet from now on, and told me to come back after 3 weeks to take ex-rays...to see if everything is mending just fine. I have an appointment on Jan. 6 for my second check up. I will put up pics tomorrow of what my feet look like exactly 4 weeks after the surgery as that will be tomorrow. I have been icing it only about once a day now....but for the first 2 weeks I was doing it pretty much all day...every hour or so, for about 20-30 minutes. I never was in a lot of pain nor did I have much swelling. The only time I was in a lot of pain was the first day after the surgery when I had to walk to the bathroom....my hubby had to help me and stepping down put a lot of pressure on my sutures and I was feeling it. The fact that I was taking pain medication every 4 hours like clock work (under watchful eye of my hubby who made sure I did not miss it) was probably very helpful, but again I only took meds for the first 4 days and then I stopped because I didn't need it. So either I have high tolerance to pain, or I was lucky and my surgeon, Dr. Loder did such an excellent job, that I didn't need it meds for too long. So for most part I just sat there, watch TV and read other blogs about bunion surgeries. It helps to compare and it is kind of nice to know, that my experience is not half as bad as some of the ones I have read about. Again...I consider myself lucky. I went to my job after two weeks to bring a dish I promised them for Christmas pot luck and my co-workers were surprised how well I was walking and how fast I was recovering. Tomorrow is my first day back to work....to actually work. I have been lucky enough to be able to take 4 weeks off from work and had my hubby stay with me the whole 4 weeks. And he was there with me every day....all day...with the exception of few days when he went shopping for Christmas, as he has big family and lots and lots of little kids. Other than that...he was here...putting up with me...and I am not the easiest person to be around. I have hard time relaxing and I have tendencies to control everything, and take charge...and have everything done my way. So you can only imagine that I can be a realy bitch sometimes and people around me have to have high tolerance to take minute orders from me....lol So I give my hubby a lot of credit for putting up with my bull....very patiently....and lovingly.... so did my daughter....and my son....(when he was around, because most of the time he was hiding upstairs not to be bother by me and my orders...lol)
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