My foot continues not to hurt as badly as I had anticipated it would, but since it does continue to hurt I continue to take prescribed pain medication for it to reduce the amount of pain that I am in at any one time and to allow me to be more mobile. So far it seems to be working extraordinarily well, so I’m considering that a win. In about a week I may be able to have the stitches put into my wound (as in, the one they made to do surgery on my foot putting a rod into it) removed, so I’ve been crossing my fingers that I can have those removed soon since that will mean that I will finally be able to resume baths without having to go to all the time and trouble of not getting my foot wet. That has probably been the most annoying part of this journey.
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So I’m a week out from having foot surgery.
Surprisingly, the pain from this is being managed extremely well by hydrocodone transferring to codeine.
I haven’t seen the suture site yet and I have no idea where it is.
For having a rod jammed into bone in my foot… I am coping surprisingly well.
I did not expect this, but I did not do much planning for after the surgery. I intended on playing it by ear.
That’s all you get for now as I continue to rest and heal from, well, surgery.
I’ll write a lot more about this later on!

I can definitely feel the rod that was placed on my foot an am trying hard to stay off of it like… entirely.
I’ve gotten the recent X-rays needed for surgery!
I continue not to know what tags to use on these posts, so… here’s hoping I’ve gotten it right.
As of today, I’ve gotten the X-rays that my podiatrist and the surgeon need to do surgery. They know exactly where the breaks are in my bone (breaks, as in plural tense… not having a cast put on it after this happened caused all of this, though I’m not in the mood to attempt to litigate against anyone I’ve seen for my care about this because it’s not worth my time), which will allow the surgeon to go in and put a screw into the bone that continues not to heal. Now I need to see the anesthesiologist as well as my podiatrist and I’m set!
Soon I’ll be having surgery on my broken foot!
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.