Surgery

WARNING THERE IS A PICTURE BELOW OF MY FOOT WITH STITCHES. 


I had my surgery last week on Friday the 17th.  I was scheduled for 10am and so I had to be there by 8am.  Lance and I dropped our kids off at my incredible friend Anne's house for the day and then drove to the hospital.  I was pretty nervous since I have never gone into surgery before. 

Lance dropped me off around 8:15 and then I was taken back to change into the beautiful hospital gown and wait for my turn to go in while sharing the same room with 15 other people waiting to go into surgery.

I waited until 10:15 (while reading the last Eragon book) and was then whisked into anesthesia to get started.  I think I was asked my medical history about 4 different times and got 3 different bracelets saying who I am and what I am allergic to.  They told me that I was a level one in health (which they said that they never get) and was very healthy.  Everyone kept asking if I was an athlete; I couldn't tell if this was because I was so "healthy" or because I was having surgery on my foot at a young age. 

Anywho, my doc then came in and wrote on the foot that he was doing surgery on and the anesthesiologist and his team gave me a "coctail" of drugs to make me woozy.  And oh boy did it.  I instantly started feeling tipsy and by the time I was in the surgical room I was on my way out.

An hour and a half later I woke up in a room with 10 other people waking up from surgery with my foot bandaged and ready to get out of there.  I was told the surgery went great and that I had a followup appointment on Monday.

My appointment Monday went great and I had little to no swelling.  I had my bandages changed and went home. My podiatrist did internal stitches and the purple says "yes" and he colored where he was going to cut.

I have to admit I was really excited to see what my foot looked like.  However when I saw it, it looked so different I almost felt like something was wrong because this was NOT what my foot looked like before.  I mean the bump was gone and my pinky toe was pointing straighter instead of slightly to the right.

I ACTUALLY started getting really sick to my stomach and a little vertigo.  I then broke out into a cold sweat and started having to breathe deeply because I was about to hurl all over my foot and then pass out while he was re-dressing my foot.  Kind of embarrassing but I made it through without throwing up or passing out.  I did have to sit down for a little bit in the waiting room.

My Step Mom has been here since the afternoon of my surgery and had been a huge help.  My house has stayed Extremely clean and my kids are happy!

Busy Day

So my Podiatrist is a rockstar and when I went to my appointment at 8:45 this morning he said that the divet on my foot is a cyst and not Avascular Necrosis. Which is a good thing.  So he had me go and get another X-ray on my left foot to double check if anything has changed since my last one was over a month ago.  He ALSO said that he can squeeze me in on the 17th for my surgery. 

After the appointment I went and had some blood-work done, then a CT of my kidneys and bladder (Which by-the-way when you get a CT with contrast it totally feels like you peed yourself! But I promise I didn't because I checked afterward), and finally another X-ray on my left foot.  I have a per-surgical physical on Monday morning and then a pre-admittanace meeting at the hospital sometime next week.  After that I don't really know. 

The doc did say that he still wants to do surgery on my cyst but it can wait.

Thats all

Peace out

Update

I went to my podiatry appointment yesterday to see if the pain in my right food was bad enough to delay the surgery or if it was just superficial pain and it was going to okay to walk on it for two months while I recover my Taylor's Bunyon surgery on my left foot.

The doctor said that it appears to be avascular nephritis meaning due to lack of blood flow in my right food the end of my 1st metatarsal (big toe joint) is starting to deteriorate and crumble.  He said that this is pretty rare since it usually happens in the ankle and not the foot.  So of course instead of scheduling my surgery he ordered an MRI on my foot plus some blood work to make sure my kidneys and liver and all my other internal organs are working enough to withstand a surgery.

I then told him I was getting a CT on my kidneys on Friday and that worried him a little so he cancelled the MRI with contrast and just ordered a regular MRI. 

Whats in store for me this week is to schedule my MRI before Friday (cross your fingers they have a slot open) then get some blood work for my Urologist, then go to see my Podiatrist Friday morning then off to get my CT Friday afternoon. 

I really hope that this turns out okay and that there is nothing to worry about (at least pertaining to my kidneys) I know that the prognosis for my foot is pretty bad but he said that he will most likely NOT do surgery on my left foot bunion.  But do surgery on my right foot and most likely do a bone graft to fix the missing chunk on the end of my metatarsal. 

This is serisouly crazy! I feel like I am 85!

Urology and Other Interesting Topics

I know not very many people read this blog so I am not too concerned with telling the masses about this.  But I do need to write this down for my own sanity.

If you know me well enough then you know that ever since I have been married I have had a problem with Urinary Tract infections and all that goes with them.

What I mean is the first year I was married, I was peeing blood and then on antibiotics about 8 times.  The second year was not too bad with about 5, the third year was WAY worse with about 13 times, 4th year about 8 times and now this year about every other month.  So if you think about that THAT is A TON of antibiotics.  Then to top it all off I am going to other antibiotics for other issues like BV, Strep Throat, AND C Diff.  The last being cause BY taking so many antibiotics!

So you see why this last time when I went into my doctor, I DID NOT want any antibiotics.  So, they said okay we will refer you a Urologist and give you none.  (THis was the 9th doctor I have seen for this problem and they are the ONLY ones that have referred me to a specialty with what is ACTUALLY wrong with me)

So now I come to the present
The week waiting for my urology appointment, my kidneys started hurting really bad.  I thought it was a kidney stone so I waited for the pain to worsen but it never did.  Then the next day the other one started hurting.  By then it was the weekend and my doctors office was not open.  So I waited the whole weekend.  By Monday both kidneys hurt and my bladder was killing me! I was also experiencing anorexia (which just means loss of apetite), nausea, and bloating... lots and lots of bloating.  So I called my doctor and they said to come in right away so they could give me some antibiotics.  Well guess what happened... Devy got really sick and so I ended up cancelling my appointment to make it to hers.

So I waited the extra day:
I went to my Urology appointment and they took a urine dip and sent it out to two different labs.  They said that it definitely looks like I have an infection but they need to culture it to see what antibiotic will work on it the best.  So that is what that is.  Then they are sending it out for abnormal cell cultures to see if there is any damage to the lining of my bladder from all this inflammation. Also it will be to look for cancerous cells.

After all that the resident that I needed to get a cystoscopy to see inside of my bladder to rule out anything else.  And that was all on Tuesday.  So I made the appointment for Friday and left it at that.

Today I got a call from the resident who said that after the doctor had reviewed my past history she decided to postpone my cystoscopy and she wanted me to get a catscan of my bladder and kidneys and get some blood work done.  So I had to move my cystoscopy to March 9th and I will hopefully get my CT done before my foot surgery on the 17th.  So that is that and yeah...

I am trying to stay calm in this whole process and try to get stuff done around my house.  But it is really hard to when the moment I walk up and down the stairs a few times  my kidneys and bladder start hurting.  I really hope there isn't permanent damage but I guess I cant change anything if there is.  I am trying to keep the over-reaction queen at bay and just focus on keeping my house clean and my kids fed (which I am failing horribly at by-the-way... well the house cleaning... my kids are fed. lol)