Yesterday all the stitches were removed - not exactly a painless process - but a real milestone. Now I use band-aids to protect my toes instead of heavy bandages which means i can now wear regular shoes instead of The surgical shoes i've been in for the last couple of weeks. I can also shower now and within a couple of day i'll be able to really get my feet wet - I.E. swimming, surfing, hot tubbing -- many things that I've been prevented from doing for that last couple of years because of the open wounds on my feet.
When I was in the hospital, just after I woke up, I had a number of weird dreams about swimming and river-rafting. Not white-water rafting, just floating down the river. They were so vivid that one of the first times I remember using my iPad (with my badly atrophied fingers) was to try to look up river rafting companies on the American River. I've never understood what was behind those memories and images but they were incredibly powerful and remain so today. Now that I can actually get in the water, I'm pretty excited.
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Woo hooo! Surf's up!
Good for you for the effort on your bike. Your aunt S. had a small cancerous mole removed from the side of her foot and her pain is relentless too, even months after the surgery. Not the nearly the surgical work you've had done. Nonetheless it seems feet don't like to be messed with.
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