Last follow-up appointment

[cjsmith]

Last follow-up this morning. I expect in another couple of months I'll make an appointment to deal with the pain *not* fixed by surgery. Until all the phantom sensations fade a bit it'll be awfully hard to figure anything out.

Yes, she had a tourniquet around each ankle during surgery. (That explains a lot.)

My feet will be permanently wider than before. However, right now they're probably even bigger than their final size.

I have cards for two pedorthists, who can at least tell me what shoes (not?) to buy. My doctor also recommends New Balance. She thinks I can get mass-produced shoes.

My right foot, more full of weird sensations, also has more scar tissue. I should massage that.

I did have stitches, dissolvable ones. There's no sign of them now.

We pulled off the surgical strips. Pic later.

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[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

My doctor also recommends New Balance.

Can I pick 'em, or can I pick 'em? ;-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

You can pick 'em! :-)

I was a little surprised, since my current NBs are pretty wide and I can't even get my foot inside them. But hey, if it'll work, great. I'll drop by the NB store again in a month or two, when I hope to be down to my new size.

[platypus]

Everyone says New Balance. Since I can't get New Balance shoes that are wide enough, I guess I just have to cut my little toe off. It's vestigial anyway!

oops, trying again with brackets corrected

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I haven't yet succeeded in getting New Balance shoes that are wide enough, either. But two people now have said I should be able to (indyansel is a EEEE width in NB, and my doc saw my feet and said I probably don't need to go custom quite yet). So I'll give 'em another try.

When I was a little girl I wanted to find a doctor who would be willing to cut off my little toe, and take away the metatarsal and shave down the cuboid, so that I could fit into shoes. Little did I know how right I was that that's how bad my feet really were.

[ckd]

I love New Balance. It doesn't hurt that I can ride a bus to their Brighton outlet store....

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Amen. We've got one nearby here, too.

[rampling.livejournal.com]

"Pedorthists" -- who knew?!

I hope the remaining pain goes away soon for you. *hugs*

Yay on getting all the stuff off your feet! I look forward to the pic.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I saw a pedorthist a while back. He's the one who hissed and made the sign of the cross when I mentioned bicycles. (Okay, he wasn't quite that weird about it. But he sure didn't want me on a bike. I was amused when he said, after discussing why a bicycle would be so bad for someone with ball-of-foot pain, "Have you tried running?")

[rampling.livejournal.com]

Drat -- can't believe I missed the mention of a "pedorthist" the first time around. I was slipping!

Ohhhhh, the "have you tried running?" comment! OW!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It was buried in the middle of a paragraph. :-)

And yeah! That comment told me just how bad bicycling would be ... that or the pedorthist had no @#$!ing clue what my actual foot problem was. Maybe both.

[sukicat.livejournal.com]

I hope that your feet start feeling a lot better soon! Good luck in finding some nice comfy shoes, too. ♥ HUGS ♥

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks, sukicat! Good to see you back on LJ again!

[sukicat.livejournal.com]

I am glad to be back! ♥