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Continuing to see the doctor for my foot…

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.

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.

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