2 Week, Post-Op, Check-Up (Warning, gross photos!)

This afternoon I had my two week, post-op, check-up! It was fairly simple and straight foward - remove the cast, take out the stitches and recast.

I have always found cast removal to be quite interesting. It's a scary looking saw that really just tickles. Once the cast was removed, here is what my foot looked like!



I was pleasantly surprised that it was not as swollen and black and blue as I had expected. Still though, it's not very pleasant.

I cannot believe how much my leg muscle has shrunk already! It's about half the size of my right side!

After they removed the stitches (ouch), they put on steri strips.



From here, the PA put on a new cast. It was a bit rough, and I'm quite sore. The original cast had my foot at a weird angle (I'm assuming on purpose) and so now he wanted it to be more flat. He kept pushing my foot to try to get it to flex. My best analogy of this is when we used to have to do over-splits in gymnastics and the coaches would push you down. There comes to a point where it HURTS so bad, yet your body is just NOT moving. That's what my foot felt like.

Here is what my new cast looks like!

My next appointment is in exactly 4 weeks. At that time they will remove this cast and I'll go in a CAM Walker boot. Until I have the boot, I am still non-weight bearing (ugh)...

I'm really hoping that the Buffalo weather holds off and we do not get anything too wet until after December 18th. Snow + cast = really bad situation.