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Appointment with foot doctor this morning. Key points:
1) Anti-inflammatory injection is hopefully a cure. Therefore, I am told to run a short distance two days in a row, and report results. If this does not work, this injection was not a cure.
I suspect it's not. I still have twinges and tingles, and I haven't gone running yet.
2) If this doesn't work I have two remaining options for treatment.
Surgery: Remove affected nerves. Weight bearing OK right away, recovery four to six weeks, elevate the foot (feet) a lot, special shoe(s) for that whole time, NO DRIVING A CAR. Most patients are fine after this, but some develop "stump neuromas" and require the alcohol injections to kill those.
Alcohol Injections: Kill affected nerves. Takes fourteen weeks just to deliver all the injections, but I can commute to work and to any OTHER doctor appointments without help. Most patients are fine after this, but some have nerves that just won't die and require the surgery to remove them.
(About that commute. Anyone who says "public transportation" gets to hear me laugh at you. I'll figure out a font that's big enough to be audible, and I'll type HA HA in it.)
1) Anti-inflammatory injection is hopefully a cure. Therefore, I am told to run a short distance two days in a row, and report results. If this does not work, this injection was not a cure.
I suspect it's not. I still have twinges and tingles, and I haven't gone running yet.
2) If this doesn't work I have two remaining options for treatment.
Surgery: Remove affected nerves. Weight bearing OK right away, recovery four to six weeks, elevate the foot (feet) a lot, special shoe(s) for that whole time, NO DRIVING A CAR. Most patients are fine after this, but some develop "stump neuromas" and require the alcohol injections to kill those.
Alcohol Injections: Kill affected nerves. Takes fourteen weeks just to deliver all the injections, but I can commute to work and to any OTHER doctor appointments without help. Most patients are fine after this, but some have nerves that just won't die and require the surgery to remove them.
(About that commute. Anyone who says "public transportation" gets to hear me laugh at you. I'll figure out a font that's big enough to be audible, and I'll type HA HA in it.)
I gotta see this...
Won't public transportation work for you?
</troublemaker>
;-)
Re: I gotta see this...
Still, now the gauntlet's been thrown and I am on the prowl for a very, very large font.
Re: I gotta see this...
:-D
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If you needed surgery, could you either carpool, work at home, or take a medical leave (look into FMLA)? I had to take medical leave for the time off for my RAI treatment, because my company is so anti-work from home. I theoretically could work from home fine next week :)
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Bummer that you had to take medical leave! I'm surprised you can't work at home more often.
It took me way too long to figure out what RAI stood for, even though I know what the treatment is. D'oh. :-) Gee, they don't want you in next week?
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Actually radiation scares people - so I took the time off - my MIL is very nervous about this with Alan, even more so than my diagnosis or surgery.
Hopefully this will be the ONLY one I ever have. (Sloan Kettering is not a fun place to visit.)
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Yeah, *nod* I'm not too surprised. I'm glad you could get the time off without hassle, and I hope everything goes as well as can be expected for you.
Hopefully this will be the ONLY one I ever have. (Sloan Kettering is not a fun place to visit.)
You haven't whined much about it, but I can't imagine it's cheery and friendly and welcoming. :-(
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