These X-rays will be used to guide the people who will be doing the surgery.

I want to get this done and out of the way, and at the same time I quite literally never want to do it, but… that’s life. In the interim I’m getting as much done as I can get done so that I can just heal after the surgery.

In a few weeks I’ll have another X-ray done on my foot to guide the surgeon.

After that point, I’ll have a few pre-operative consults (one with the surgeon at the facility, the other with the doctor who is personally responsible for the care of my foot… if it sounds anything as confusing as it was when it was first explained to me, our understanding of it at least at the time is similar). Then I’ll have my foot operated on. I’ll have three more consults after that point to monitor healing, but it’s nowhere near as extensive as this post may make it sound, the actual operation… and that’s when I focus on healing to restore the ability to walk normally. The only thing that surprises me about all of this will be the fact that it will have taken just under six months for me to get in with a podiatrist to have a clearly foot operated on.

I have been referred to surgery, which I’m waiting to hear about in September.

My foot will have been broken for months by that point and all I have to show for it is a fracture boot that hasn’t even helped it heal. I’ve also been told that this kind of break tends to heal spectacularly poorly…

Why in the world a cast wasn’t put on it within days continues to be beyond me, folks. It really is.