The Triple Arthrodesis is unlike any pain I could have imagined….updated in first paragrap

EDIT——-The pain only lasted one night. Doubled up on meds and by next day it was gone.

Down to a 1/10 on pain scale. Only incision sites have an occasional “knitting back together” signal that everyone has when they have surgery.
——-anyone reading this that has had a lot or no surgeries, know that I am out of the tunnel.

Youll feel like you’ll never recover, then bang, one day, usually about a week or two post op, the small light at end of tunnel comes at you fast and you’re okay.






Eta. I totally forgot, the reason I wanted to post this is because I’m still able to walk in the future. That’s a huge plus. Large amounts of respect for you people that have been in a wheelchair etc. I want to make sure I respect what you’ve all gone though. No one can feel your pain.


CSB
This was 37 years in the making after being born w two club feet.

In Houston Texas, I had the double club foot surgery@ 6 mos old.

What is amazing is that the doctor even said after 35 to 40 years this child would come in to an orthopedist and complain of foot pain.

He was right. However, I only had 1 foot done as he corrected the right foot while I was 6 mos old.

Since then
I’ve had 13 hip/knee/ foot surgeries from club feet and football injuries in middle school. Feet and knees never made it to HS football. TORE PCL in right, and dislocated patella in left on same play.

This surgery made ACL/PCL surgery like a walk in the park once the nerve block work off, it was a ride that I will never forget. It might happen tonight too. But damn.
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Last night, it was like an episode of Coyote Peterson being stung by the warrior wasp (not the executioner wasp). He felt pain radiating up and up. This was that pain.
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It was like the screws were still being turned.

I can certainly feel the heel screws but also he took a tibial wedge out to increase mobility. But the worst pain is the calcanial/cuboid screw. Now I cannot see the screw. But that has to be where the pain is coming from. The whole foot hurts, but that is the worst pain.

Still hopped up on anesthesia too. Thought the surgery was yesterday but it was really three days ago.

But again, each person has different experiences with pain, but I would rather have bilateral knee replacements than this surgery ever again.

I wanted to hold off seeing this video until after because I am not sure I would have been so willing if I saw it before surgery.

Loopy as hell, but still cannot get the radiating pain out of my head from last night. Never rocked back and forth like that, ever.