Surgery

About 3 months ago my ankle that I broke 2 years ago started to hurt more. After being on my feet all day at work it was swollen and my big toe was numb sometimes. I chalked it up to not wearing good enough shoes for awhile but finally decided I should get it checked out. When I went in they took an x-ray and one of the bigger pins that criss- crossed the joint had broken in half. I guess that happens?? It seems like I should have realized when that happened but I can't think of a time when I would have done that. After looking at the x-ray the Dr. thought it would probably best if I had those 2 pins out and some of the other hardware as well. I knew that I should just get it done yet this year since we had paid our out of pocket and deductible with Emerson's birth, week long hospital stay, tubes and surgery. Wow! That little girl was expensive this year! I had made an appointment for Dec 30 to get it done but I was kind of hoping to just cancel it and forget about getting this done. The first time around was SO painful that I have been dreading this.

After talking it over with Robb, we decided that it would be silly to have to pay for it next year when it would be pretty inexpensive this year. I went in on Dec 30 at 1:00 and they prepped me. I went into surgery at the Lincoln Orthopedic Center at 3:00. By 3:30 I was done. They had first thought that they would just do an ankle block instead of general anesthesia but the anesthesiologist said he would prefer to do general so I was sleepier afterward than I thought but it went okay. They had trouble getting some of the screws out and actually broke another one while taking it out. I did get to keep the screws that they took out. The boys thought that was pretty cool! When I woke up from surgery my ankle hurt some but nothing like last time. By 6:00 I was ready to head home. I was pretty sore for the next 4 days but after that I could walk around with the walking boot and could drive.  It was a bummer starting my year out like this but I guess it's done which is good.