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Moving on day 12 after operation

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susan13617
susan13617

I am going to quit obsessing about my left foot and whether my big toe is straight enough because: the swelling has not gone down on the left side to show me what it is truly going to look like, I am training the big toe  to go over to the right with a brace, and I'm going to quit comparing my foot pictures to others, because each of our feet and issues are different.  Moving on, I'm going to be in this huge healed high top cam walker (worse than one pictured - closed toe - looks like a huge robot shoe - for the other foot I am thinking of this leveler for my other shoe on my good foot.  And to purchase - the rollaround walker...Also, today I am borrowing a wheelchair from my church to get out this weekend (Mother's Day is for me, like many, I suppose, a hard day) to go to the lake, and enjoy the blooming fruit trees, etc.  I hope everyone is doing better and I can see how I can learn from this trying at times experience AND I'm lucky - no pain in my foot and no pain meds...YAY

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  • barbara00055
    barbara00055 susan13617

    Posted

    Wow love that leveller, wished I'd seen that foe sale when I was in the wedge shoe.   Good idea about your own experience, everyone is different, with different surgeons and procedures.  Hope you enjoy your trip out, it'll do you the world of good.
    • susan13617
      susan13617 barbara00055

      Posted

      thank you, Barbara - and supportive friends on this forum on FB have been giving me support, photo flowers, words of wisdom, and sharing their own personal battles which is helping me turnaround what could have made me depressed if I had not quit obsessing...I for some reason have an irrational fear that : "oh, no, I got the incompetent surgeon who did a botch job and I'll need a replay surgery"...WELL, I do not have real info to support that, so I want to take the positive route...
    • barbara00055
      barbara00055 susan13617

      Posted

      Best idea, positive thinking will help us to recover.  Keep your splint on all the time for next few weeks and I'm sure youll benefit from this.  There are so many different stories and experiences with this bunion op, I am keeping positive but when I read that people are still having swelling and pain 3-6 months it is so surprising to me, because I didn't really know it would take that long to recover.  I think best thing is to do little activity and more rest with foot raised for as long as it take.  So pleased I haven't got to go back to work, my time is my own.
    • susan13617
      susan13617 barbara00055

      Posted

      thanks, Barbara - the positive way is always the best way - still being empathetic to others, but keeping a "higher" state of mind...I lost a good friend yesterday and that always adds up to a sadder state of mind, compounded by grief, which is normal, but I am celebrating his life and spreading good words around him on the net and plugging for his music scholarship...again trying to celebrate the good, not the bad.
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