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[cjsmith]

indyansel, I don't believe this! They're awesome! They arrived in styrofoam with an ice pack. And you knew I liked dark! How'd you know/remember that??

apparentparadox, that pillow thing is a GODSEND. I used it all day yesterday and I'm using it now.

The long-acting local is definitely all gone now. It's interesting learning how to get around without letting either forefoot touch ANYTHING. I am realizing how much easier things would be with one good leg, particularly in the bathroom. But I'm still glad I don't have to go through surgery twice!

I suspect, as ouchy as this is, that I have it easy in the post-surgical pain department. After all, at the bottom of the incision just coincidentally happens to be a spot where I don't have a nerve any more.

Since the local's worn off I can feel my toes... most of them. On each foot there is a spot I will never feel again, and let me just say right now that is the weirdest sensation I have experienced in thirty-seven years on this earth. It's not half so freaky when I know it's an anaesthetic. This is ME; this is how my body is, forever. A local is also, somehow, not quite as complete a loss of sensation. I touch these toes with my fingers and it's like they're not there at all. Someone substituted plastic toes. Except that the other side of each toe is there. At that point my brain segfaults. It simply cannot make sense of the input it is getting.

For some reason I am still thinking of all this as a grand adventure.

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Wow, several people have numb things! I never realized that it could occur in such a variety of ways. Super sensitive spots too, huh? As long as it's not "super painful" when your skin gets pulled wrong or something!

And yeah, Go Numbness. Even if most of my foot pain turns out to have been from the damage to ligaments and tendons, instead of these nerve problems we just addressed surgically, the surgery will STILL have some positive effect 'cause there are areas I can't feel. Heh heh heh. :-)

[hnybny.livejournal.com]

I feel it most when shaving. I have to be verrrrry careful. Either I can't feel the razor or I feel it too much and it's almost "buzzy."

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh yeow, that could be a little dangerous.