Bunionectomy gone wrong

Hi I had a bunionectomy done on December 19th 2017. The doctor that did mine said that I was complaining so much that none of his other patients had much pain as I did. I was in three different cast and he took me out of my last cast on February 7th and put in a walking boot. I was in that walking boot until March 9th period he took me out of the walking boot and put me in my regular shoes. I will back to work on March 13th as you know in retail there is quite a bit of walking I am on my feet for seven and a half hours in my 9 hour work day. I complained of pain and barely being able to walk I asked him if I should go back into my boot he proceeded to tell me and my husband that would be going backwards to go back into my boot I then asked him about the surgical shoe he said if you think it would help yes come in and get one. I wear the surgical shoe Friday Saturday Sunday and Monday and it did not help. I emailed him and of course he was out of the office on vacation once again this is been like at least the fourth vacation since my surgery on December 19th. I think got a hold of one of his colleagues she told me I need to come in and see her that my joint was swollen and I may have an infection then it. I went in to see her and she proceeded to tell me that she didn't believe it was an infection but that yes I did need to be off my foot for a while so she took me off of work for the remainder of the week was just Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday I was off Saturday and had to go back to work on Sunday. I was still not able to walk on my foot or stand for a long. Of time by Saturday night. So I called the advice nurse and ask them what to do they put in a phone call to the on-call podiatrist and he told me there was nothing he could do for me and that he could not give me any time off work. I then proceeded to call again and get another doctor's opinion so the doctor finally called me at about 9:30 that night mind you I had to be to work at 6:30 the next morning. That doctor told me to stay off of my foot call on Monday morning to get in to see the podiatrist. So I was able to finally get an appointment to go see the podiatrist again now after looking at my final x-rays on March 9th they the whole team of Podiatry and foot surgeons looked at my x-rays and came to the conclusion that where they had cut my bone it was not completely healed. I am now in a cast once again no weight bearing I have a port in the cast in order to use a bone stimulator to help heal the bone since I have been off work since December 19th and I went back to work on March 13th for a total of 9 days period And I am off work again for another three months now I have lost my position at work and I'm going to lose money in the end because of the Lost of positions. This is my story I live with constant pain every single day and wish I never had a bunionectomy done. I could care less about wearing high heeled shoes flip-flops anything I have an enormous car on my foot numbness in my big big and second toe it was not worth it at all!

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