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Z||000002||JayeLynn||06-13-2000||11:52 PM||greyvulf@hotmail.com||born with a 'resistent club foot'. By the time I hit 15, my heel was elevated (ie short achilles) and the bone structure around the ball of my foot got really wide (EE). From the ball to the end of my toes, everything curved inward (ie, medial). Walking was rough. I had one surgery to my knowledge at the age of 5 where I think they may have done some work on the achilles, but I could not explain the other scars on the foot/ankle. When I was born they fitted me in plaster immediately but I don't know if they did anything else. The procedure they did at 16/17 is called a triple arthrodesis which involved fusing three of the joints in the foot. It was traumatic to say the least, and I swore I'd shoot myself before I'd ever let 'em touch it again. ...and I wasn't kidding. I was in a cast for roughly 3 months and gimped for about a year. So,...I've been dealing with increasing pain in the foot/ankle for a couple of years and decided that I was probably due for a checkup after 20 years. In walks this young snot-nosed kid in a lab coat; looks at the x-rays; pokes at my foot....doesn't listen to much of anything I'm saying and then turns around and tells me that he thinks that the fusion from the original surgery never 'took'. (*right* I think it's more like the time I slammed into the wall in a hockey game and wouldn't have it xrayed ...because I'd rather shoot myself blah, blah, blah) He had me go through a ct scan last week and left me v-mail today. He says that the cuboid needs to be refused and that they would want to do a bone graft from my hip. Why fuck with shit that isn't broken is my philosophy, besides, they didn't muck with any of that last time. ...the last thing I need is another ache!||63.225.127.103||reg||
Z||000003||WonderWoman||06-14-2000||02:29 PM||wonderwoman@thewirehouse.com||Sorry for your troubles my sister. I can truly relate to your pain. I'm in week 10 of a broken lower leg. At this point I just want to be able to do something with my lower body other than cycle slowly and stretch. Most of the pain is gone except for some lateral ankle pain, which the doc says is from weeks of inactivity (cast). My bone did not require surgery but they didn't do an mri so hopefully the soft tissue is recovering properly. They say that unless something is detatched (ripprd, torn etc) that the cure for soft tissue is rest and therapy. I'll just be glad when this shit is over. The hardest thing right now is anticipating pain and moving through life with a less than confident stride. That means I have to move much slower than I'm sure any of us are used to. PT says I should be ready to go in about 3-4 weeks. There is light at the end of the tunnel.
Keep the faith and do what they teel you in therapy.
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Z||000004||bsjohnson||06-14-2000||02:37 PM||mikebsj@hotmail.com||I'm usually on the A.S board, but i just had lower back surgery, and they did a bone graph, on both sides of my hip. Its been 3weeks since surgery, and my hips hurt more than my back. I just hope it doesn't stay that way. ||207.225.105.252||reg||
Z||000005||JayeLynn||06-14-2000||03:42 PM||greyvulf@hotmail.com||keep 'em coming folks: I want some stats. So far it's 50/50.
WW - they don't do anything w.r.t. physical therapy on me. Since there is no mobility in the ankle, what's to rehab? I do often lose site of all the folks that have it worse than I do: I don't have MS or Lou Gerrigs disease. Dealing with the day to day limitations is old hat, but when it comes to being dependent on the medical industry, I lose all grace. The level of expertise on this board is far superior to the average md community. In fact, I found this board while researching alternatives to "there's nothing I can do for you" for a friend with a herneated disk in her lower back. They had her on pain meds for over 10 years! After 1 year, I had her back at work.
A club foot won't kill you off like cancer, and they won't amputate. I'm just stuck.
I'm not handling this well.
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Z||000006||MS||06-14-2000||04:14 PM||mad.scientist55@hushmail.com||I guess it's obvious, but I'll say it anyway. Get a second and third assessment!! Completely independent from eachother. If there's a consensus then go with it, if there's more than one way to 'skin a cat' then do more research.
I remember some time ago the doc telling me that if my ankle ever got too arthritic and painful that the standard treatment was fusion. But I don't know why they can't do it with just screws and plates, etc...I agree with bjohnson that the worst part of my graft was my hip where they took the donor bone from. Ouch.
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