Thread:Alicia84/@comment-29989042-20170513173314/@comment-29989042-20170515025908

Happy Mother's Day to you, dear Alicia! 🌸🌿💐🌿💖🌿💐🌿🌸

My surgery won't be too major, unlike the last time...surgery will be on my left foot. I was born without arches in both feet, so my entire life, I've had painful foot problems. About 3 years ago, my left foot started having tendon problems too. We thought we caught the problem in time to correct it with a walking boot, but after 9 months of wearing the boot, it was obvious the tendon was dysfunctional and I needed a transfer. To ensure the new tendon would work, I had to also have my foot reconstructed...the doc basically built an arch in my foot. It required breaking bones, wedging in donor bone, cutting off my heel bone and moving it over before screwing it back on, and putting in other hardware. He built it kind of like a tripod. Recovery took a year, and I had to learn how to walk again. Surgery was a success...the "new" foot works so much better and wears shoes better too, but I have always had a bit of pain around a plate that's on the outside of that foot, near my ankle. Recent X-rays showed that 2 of the 4 screws holding the plate in place are broken. Since the plate covers bone there that was broken during surgery, I then had a CT scan so the doc could be sure that bone healed. Come to find out, the bone never healed because my body didn't take to the donor bone wedged in the gap there. Now I have to have surgery to have the broken hardware and donor bone removed. Then the doc will take some of my own bone from below my knee and put that in the gap, put in new hardware, and then 2 weeks after surgery, I'll start using a bone stimulating machine for up to the next year to encourage that bone to grow back together. Recovery is going to be long (again!)...no weight-bearing for 6 weeks, with an additional 4 weeks of learning to walk and bear full weight again. I wasn't planning to spend my summer that way, but I'm so ready to have a foot that doesn't hurt anymore! 😋 Then I can get the other foot reconstructed eventually. I had this info posted on my wall awhile back, so I don't mind sharing. 😊

I'm so sorry you're dealing with drained energy and a possible flare up. Praying the flare up is short-lived! The pain in my foot has made a mess out of my narcolepsy, so I've had horrible energy levels too. You're sweet and positive attitude always encourages and inspires me! 💖