I have to get another set of X-rays done to guide the surgeon, but I am looking at surgery with regional anesthetic or twilight sedation in the coming weeks and I could not be more excited that I will regain the ability to walk normally! I’ve continued to have the broken foot examined by various members of my care team leading up to the appointment I had to wait for and can’t complain about how well the pain it’s caused has been managed, but I look forward to not having any broken bones when they put a screw into that bone. If I can handle giving birth to two children I think I can handle laying on the operating table while they do this, though additional precautions will be taken due to the fact I have epilepsy. These are the same precautions taken whenever I have surgery on the back of my neck for the migraines that the same individual also caused, so I think I’ll be fine. I’ve sent a few questions to my doctor’s office about anesthesia decisions as they relate to my epilepsy diagnosis, and I hope to hear back from them within the next week.
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I still don’t have a cast on my foot.
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.
This is what it’s like to have a broken foot.

I am still nowhere near getting answers, aside from the fracture boot that was upgraded so as to come up to my knee instead of my ankle. I’ve been referred to a podiatrist at the hospital twenty minutes from my house with the end goal of getting surgery on this foot if it is at all possible. So, at the worst I have to wait until September to be seen for an injury that happened this May. I’ll have been walking three months on a broken foot. We have also confirmed that, in spite of me wearing this boot every day, the break hasn’t healed a bit.
Another backdated post, another day in here.
On this day I was finally able to get in to see my new primary care physician since my old one retired.
She prescribed me enough pain medication to get me over the hump of a consult with the orthopedic surgeon, and either that individual or my pain management clinic (who normally see me for migraine-related pain, though they treat other kinds of pain too) will continue to prescribe me medications as needed. Between codeine and the occasional hydrocodone, I’m able to maneuver around the house in my new boot.