Last weekend, after managing fairly well for 3 weeks without the boot & using my crutches less & less I had planned a sailing reunion with my crew down in Southampton. Unfortunately I hurt my foot! I stepped up with my good foot, wobbled backwards & lost balance with my entire weight dropping back onto the ball & toes of my injured foot. The pain was immediate & severe. I felt a horrible crunching in the base of my toes, followed by a searing pain through the bottom arch.
It swelled pretty much straight away, a band of swelling all the way across the bottom of my forefoot & base of my toes. The pain was scarily similar in sensations to the pain I'd experienced following my 1st surgery. I took a hefty dose of ibuprofen & hoped that it would settle down & that perhaps I'd just jarred the joints & ligaments or something. The fear, just kept rising up inside though, managing that whilst being with my sailing crew was difficult. A couple of times the fear & panic overwhelmed me to the point that I shed a few tears. Sure I felt run down due to the pain, but the panic & fear overtook.
48 Hrs later I gave in, walking was incredibly difficult, the ball of my foot & underneath the forefoot felt horribly tender, my 2nd & 3rd toes were pretty swollen too with some bluish bruising starting to materialise. So on Sunday evening I found myself in the A & E department of a nearby hospital. After waiting for a couple of hours I was seen & lateral & AP Xrays were taken. To my immense relief no significant fractures were evident on either Xray !
But the consultant was concerned enough about my inability to weight bear & the swelling to give me another pair of crutches (my 3rd !) & prescribe very strong pain killers before discharging me with strict instructions not to weight bear until I had visited my own consultant.
So I saw my own consultant last night & after reviewing the Xrays again he agreed there are no significant fractures evident & my midfoot reconstruction still looked intact which was great news. He was slightly concerned over the swelling & tenderness in my forefoot & toes, with my planned holiday to the US due to happen in a week he has requested a CT scan before confirming that I'm OK to travel.
So it's been a pretty eventful few days, & here I am waiting to go back to hospital this afternoon for the CT. I feel so relieved I can't tell you, the thoughts of having to go back into surgery or back into cast were enough to make my stomach lurch & my heart sink. So I'm keeping everything crossed & thinking positive thoughts that the scan results are good, I'll get them during my follow up with Mr Ritchie on Saturday. In the meantime resting the foot & only partial weight bearing with crutches allowed.
It swelled pretty much straight away, a band of swelling all the way across the bottom of my forefoot & base of my toes. The pain was scarily similar in sensations to the pain I'd experienced following my 1st surgery. I took a hefty dose of ibuprofen & hoped that it would settle down & that perhaps I'd just jarred the joints & ligaments or something. The fear, just kept rising up inside though, managing that whilst being with my sailing crew was difficult. A couple of times the fear & panic overwhelmed me to the point that I shed a few tears. Sure I felt run down due to the pain, but the panic & fear overtook.
48 Hrs later I gave in, walking was incredibly difficult, the ball of my foot & underneath the forefoot felt horribly tender, my 2nd & 3rd toes were pretty swollen too with some bluish bruising starting to materialise. So on Sunday evening I found myself in the A & E department of a nearby hospital. After waiting for a couple of hours I was seen & lateral & AP Xrays were taken. To my immense relief no significant fractures were evident on either Xray !
But the consultant was concerned enough about my inability to weight bear & the swelling to give me another pair of crutches (my 3rd !) & prescribe very strong pain killers before discharging me with strict instructions not to weight bear until I had visited my own consultant.
So I saw my own consultant last night & after reviewing the Xrays again he agreed there are no significant fractures evident & my midfoot reconstruction still looked intact which was great news. He was slightly concerned over the swelling & tenderness in my forefoot & toes, with my planned holiday to the US due to happen in a week he has requested a CT scan before confirming that I'm OK to travel.
So it's been a pretty eventful few days, & here I am waiting to go back to hospital this afternoon for the CT. I feel so relieved I can't tell you, the thoughts of having to go back into surgery or back into cast were enough to make my stomach lurch & my heart sink. So I'm keeping everything crossed & thinking positive thoughts that the scan results are good, I'll get them during my follow up with Mr Ritchie on Saturday. In the meantime resting the foot & only partial weight bearing with crutches allowed.
Emma - Yea! I am glad you are back. I was actually worried - I knew things were not good for you. Glad to hear you are continuing to progress. Also glad you got back out on the water - albeit not the best of days! You are a tough person and will get through this. PS - having walking adventures of my own these days. Kind regards, Glenn
ReplyDeleteHi Glenn, thanks for your comments...... needless to say with my unlucky streak at the moment, I won't bother buying any lottery tickets for a while.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to catch up with your blog & see what you've been up to :)