Bunionectomy really not worth it!

Hi I had a bunionectomy done on December 19th 2016. I was sent home with Percocet. Told to take it every 4 hours. The prescription said to take every 6 hours. As you I can imagine I ran out  before the prescription was due. Told my doctor and he said there was nothing he could do for me. He said that I was complaining to much that none of his other patients had as 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 me in a walking boot. I was in that walking boot until March 9th.   He took me out of the walking boot and put me in my regular shoes. I went back to work on March 13th full duty.  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 to my car at end of day.  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 wore 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 has been like at least the fourth vacation since my surgery on December 19th. I  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 in it. I went in to see her and she proceeded to tell me that she didn't believe it was an infection.  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. That  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 period  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. He told them there was nothing he could do for me.  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 taken on March 9th.  The whole team of Podiatrist and foot surgeons looked at my x-rays. 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 now from  December 19th.  I went back to work on March 13th for a total of 9 days. 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 Loss of position. This is my story. I live with constant pain every single day.  I wish I  never had a bunionectomy done. I could care less about wearing high heeled shoes,  flip-flops. I have an enormous scar on my foot. Numbness in my big and second toe. IT WAS NOT WORTH IT AT ALL!!! 

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