Foot Update

 

As some folks already know, I woke up Sunday morning around six in a lot of pain with the outside of my left foot swollen and bruised looking. I had no memory of doing anything to my foot. By that afternoon, I was in such pain that I very seriously considered going to ER. I have very limited feeling in my feet so I knew something bad was wrong to be hurting like I was. I also did not want to go and already had what was supposed to be a routine office visit with the podiatrist scheduled for today.

 

By yesterday, the pain level was lower, as was the swelling, and I felt a little better about not trying to go to the ER.

 

Well, the news sucks.  X-Rays were done and the foot got manipulated a bit and that hurt like holy heck. Diagnosis-- Some tendon that runs from the back of the leg and under the ankle and then along the side of the foot is massively inflamed and on the edge of rupture. I may also have small stress fractures. If I do, they will not show up on x-rays too well, and there is so much fluid and inflammation there is not much point in trying an MRI right now. The assumption is that I have them too.

 

I am now booted for when I am up and walking around. The frigging boot is huge and very heavy and makes walking with my cane way harder. Thankfully, I don’t have to sleep with it.

 

I have to go back in two weeks.

 

Assuming the boot works and I don’t rupture the thing in the meantime, which apparently could easily happen, I am going to have to do multiple weeks of physical therapy. How long? Don’t know yet. Depends on how I heal, time, and all that.

 

Been a brutally expensive couple of months just in medical bills and I am sick of being in medical places and being a complex patient.