Post surgical foot & random cellphone picture

Here is a picture of the "after" shot of my foot. Not much to see because it's all wrapped up, but boy, I sure feel that something was done to it.

To be perfectly honest though, it doesn't hurt that bad. Yes, it feels like I have a broken foot, but the meds are keeping the pain under control. My followup appointment is on thursday, so I'll find out the rest of the plan then. My post-op nurse told me they usually remove the pins in this kind of procedure, which would mean yet another surgery. I sure hope not! I really don't want to have ANOTHER surgery. This is it for me. I'll agree to the minor procedure of an ER, but other than that, I'm done.

All in all, everything went well except I had a really bad experience with the anesthesiologist. He had come in pre-op to talk to me, as all anesthesiologists do, to talk to me about the plan and to ask questions. When he came in, my nurse was right in the midst of putting in my IV. As I had mentioned before, I'm a bad stick. 99% of all IVs and blood draws are taken from my hands. The other 1% was from the iv that was stuck into my foot. When anyone starts looking for a vein, I explain how their best bet is in my hand and I specifically ask them to ~not~ go into the arm (inner elbow area). Inadvertantly, I'll get the random nurse who will think she's an awesome stick and will still want to try. Although I protest, a few will insist they have found a good vein and will go for it, only to fail. Literally, I haven't had an arm vein stuck for over a decade.

Anywho, the nurse failed at the right hand and then failed again when she flipped over my hand and tried in my wrist. At this time she said she was just going to leave it up to the "expert", the anesthesiologist, to try again. A little side note - I think the nurses are actually the experts in this area. It's what they do all day, everyday. The doctor grabs a blood pressure cuff and starts explaining that it will pump up my veins for him to get. Yeah, I've been through it, believe me. He starts to look for an inner arm vein and I start to protest again. He says "no, no, no - you have a great vein right here". I continue to say how veins are ~always~ found there, but for whatever reason, they don't end up working. I don't know if they collapse or roll or whatever, but they do not work. But Dr Know It All didn't listen. Soon we was digging around and I started to panic a bit. Sweat started dripping and the nurse gave me oxygen. The digging continued. My arm was tingling and purple from lack of blood from the blood pressure cuff and my eyes were welling with tears, some even making their way out down my cheeks. Another nurse and my surgeon walked in at this time and must've just thought I was a big IV baby, but I was angry and upset. Dr Know It All said something like "I can feel it, but it just won't go it" and I turned to him and said angrily, "Imagine that". He kept digging for what it seemed like eternity until he finally said "It looks like you were right" and he removed it. Asshole. I asked him to just put one in my hand and 8 seconds later, it was in. How much more of an "I told you so" was that?


This is a completely random picture that was in my phone when I went to upload the foot picture. This guy was DRIVING at the time! Seriously. Look at the little patch of window he was using as his windshield. It was barely one swipe of the wiper! And if it couldn't be any worse, the wiper has only cleaned off a stripe from the passenger side to the middle of the driver's side. The snow was piled up on his side.

It scares me that these are the types of people who are out there on the road. He wasn't even making an attempt to clean it off. In fact, we were just at a stop light and he simply sat there. This picture was taken once the light turned green and he had started on his way again. Ack.