Questions for Callaway

['andersom']

Good luck Callaway,

Hope it will all go according to plan or better.

[Al Swearegen]

 

[odeon]

Surgery?

Yes, it's scheduled for this Friday and I will probably be lying around with my foot propped up on pillows for a few weeks.  I hope I can return to work when my daughter's school starts back in early January.

Tomorrow?  Yikes!  Good luck, take care, and when you're feeling up to it, let us know how you're doing post-op! 

Thanks.

 

OMG, didn't realise it was imminent. Good luck and all the best. I'll be thinking about you... about NOW.

[Leto729]

I hope all goes well for You Callaway.

[SleepyDragon]

One of the annoying things that happens post-op with this kind of surgery is losing, within a day or two, all the lovely muscle tone you've painstakingly built up during the weeks and months before. Once everything starts knitting back together, though, I imagine you'll get physio, and exercises to do on your own? Looking forward to hearing how that goes. Meanwhile, a laptop and a fast connection are a huge help in overcoming the frustration of immobility. 

[El]

How is your recovery going, Callaway?

[Callaway]

One of the annoying things that happens post-op with this kind of surgery is losing, within a day or two, all the lovely muscle tone you've painstakingly built up during the weeks and months before. Once everything starts knitting back together, though, I imagine you'll get physio, and exercises to do on your own? Looking forward to hearing how that goes. Meanwhile, a laptop and a fast connection are a huge help in overcoming the frustration of immobility. 

I know I will lose most of the muscle tone in the six weeks it's immobilized, but I will have physical therapy and I'll work to get it back again.  It will probably take eight months for it to get back to normal, however.

Thanks for the good wishes, everyone.

I'm using the ice machine and taking the pain medicine pretty regularly, so the pain so far has not been as bad as I feared it would be.

I got Ancef in my IV and I haven't had a fever so I think it's not getting infected

If I sit at my computer desk for very long at all, my ankle starts to swell and hurt even though I elevate it parallel to the floor on my knee walker.

I'm using a huge bean bag to elevate my foot above my head on the couch where I have been sleeping since the surgery.  My husband is driving our daughter to school this week, then she will have Christmas vacation for two weeks.  A special education teacher rode with her to school on Friday so my husband could stay with me for the surgery.  This teacher had foot surgery before and she was non-weight bearing for eighteen months, so she brought me her ice machine and her knee walker so I would have back ups on different floors of my house.  It was a really good thing she did because the ice machine I got from the surgery center quit working Saturday after less than 24 hours.  If I couldn't have used hers, it would have been difficult to use enough ice to feel the cold through all these thick bandages.

[Al Swearegen]

Hang in there Callaway

[El]

Glad to hear you're safe and sound and your pain is being managed, Callaway.  I hope your recovery continues well. 

[RageBeoulve]

Wow shes going through this crap too? Damn callaway. We could be cripple twins. 

[Callaway]

Wow shes going through this crap too? Damn callaway. We could be cripple twins. 

We will be cripple twins.

 

[The Member Formerly Known As Sophist]

How's it all going, Callaway?

[Callaway]

How's it all going, Callaway?

I'm still a cripple for the next few weeks.  I am currently lying on the sofa in my pajamas with my right leg encased in my lovely black cast boot and propped up on a huge beanbag pillow with my pink laptop propped on my left leg.

I'm still taking Percocet for the pain and using an ice machine which periodically circulates cold water through a cooling pad on my right ankle.  I have a very nice knee walker that I have been using to get around on, which is much more convenient to use than crutches everywhere except on the stairs.

I know that I needed the surgery for my ankle to get better in the long run and that knowledge helps me deal with the pain as a temporary necessity, but even so, it's still difficult for me to be in constant pain.

Right now, there's over a foot of snow on the ground, which makes it too difficult for me to get around.  So my husband has gone out alone to do our last minute Christmas shopping for our daughter.  We already bought her a new bunk bed for Christmas with a dresser and desk under it, so he's looking for a new office chair with wheels for her to use with her new desk.  Also, she asked for new underwear for Christmas, so I asked him to buy her some new bras and panties and gave him the correct sizes. It makes me chuckle to think of him looking around in that part of the store by himself searching for these.

 

[earthboundmisfit]

Do you have to use the high altitude directions when you bake or cook something?

[Callaway]

Do you have to use the high altitude directions when you bake or cook something?

If I'm baking, then things turn out a little better if I use the high altitude directions, but it usually doesn't make that much of a difference for other things.