5 days post surgery, and I’m alive. My brain finally feels like it’s working enough to do things other than play candy crush on my phone and watch netflix.
Background: last Wednesday, I had bunionette surgery to correct my left foot. This is the first of two surgeries.
1. Surgery Recovery is WEIRD – and what I mean by this is that the first day I felt awesome, and the second day was miserable. I felt so great on the first day that I was taken away by the state of complete exhaustion and pain of day 2 & 3.
2. Waking up from Surgery is STRANGE – honestly, it was a little traumatic to lay down in this big white sterile room with lights (I couldn’t see anything but blurs because no glasses) and then wake up in another room with a cast on your foot. It was reassuring to see the face of a local mom as the nurse when I woke up, but otherwise it was super jarring to know you didn’t remember anything of the past hour and I didn’t really know where I was…
3. I don’t feel like eating – and I love to eat, so not even finishing half a bagel in the morning is a little bizarre.
4. The cast is annoying – I only have a partial plaster cast wrapped in a tensor bandages and it’s annoying. I find my foot swelling and painful, I find my ankle feeling unsupported, my leg feeling itchy, and the tips of my toes are always cold from the breeze in my room. Nobody talks about how much the cast will make you go batty before the pain even drifts into the picture.
5. Crutches take so much core work! I don’t really get around the house for a variety of reasons (I’m tired, I’m a klutz and keep tripping, having my foot below my heart hurts too much, children’s toys everywhere), but the act of going to the bathroom three-four times a day is enough to realize my core is incredibly weak. I’m currently staying in bed because my abs hurt and the idea of hobbling out to the deck seems impossible.
Hi
I am in my third week of this surgery. All bandages have been removed and stitches too. I had two removed, on baby toe and on big toe. I was doing pretty good til now. I used a chair on wheels to get around in the house. Doesn’t work too well on carpet tho but I have tile. Could really get up speed in it. A surgical shoe helped to walk. Bathing was an issue. Can’t get area wet. After 2nd wk and stitches removed I am allowed too. And encouraged to put on a shoe. That when the pain came back. The baby toe is very painful. None of my shoes would work. I finally found a pair of slippers with very stretchy material with reduced pain but can’t wear these outside. Doctor says it could take 2-3 mos to feel normal! I am a prisoner in my own home and things are piling up. Oh I do have a husband helping but patience is wearing thin on both sides. Hope it will get better.
I only have small boniette, below punky toe, what a hard recovery… plz update how you are,doing now?
If you check my home page, you’ll find my one year recovery post. I had a very small bunionette and it was not an easy recovery. https://www.simplymombailey.com/one-year-post-bunion-surgery/