Foot Follow Up

I've already posted this elsewhere, but for the next few weeks it will be the biggest thing happening in my life.  

So, here's the post on how we got here.  And the picture above is what they showed me shortly after I came out of sedation at the Texas Orthopedic Surgery Center.  

This is kind of what happens when you enthusiastically agree with your doctor that the ideal outcome of surgery is that you never, ever want for your foot to break again.  You wake up with a titanium screw put into your foot that will mean your pinky toe shall ne'er bend again.  

In my head, this was going to be an inch-long screw.  For scale, I wear a 14 wide.  Apparently, and in no way does this surprise me, they learned my bones are very dense and so my surgery took longer than expected.

Surgery was Thursday November 6th, and it's now Sunday, November 9th.  

Does it hurt?  Not like you'd think.  If I have it up, there's a low ache between a 2 and 4.  Nothing I can't sleep through, and I can say that here on day four, it hurts less, and I'm only taking a real pain killer before I go to sleep.  Aside from that, I'm sticking to HEB brand acetaminophen.  I find if I take real pain killers I just fall asleep or can't remember proper nouns.  

If I move around or put my foot at an angle where the surgery site has weight on it, yeah, I can feel it, but I'm not weeping.  I've got crutches, so I can sort of lurch around.  I've been upstairs for a shower and will do so again today.  Back to work Monday/ tomorrow

Anyway, they say I should be back to normal (whatever that is) within 6 weeks.  So that literally puts me at the week of Christmas for walking around just fine.  Which would be nice.  But it does mean I am unsure what holiday decorating will look like this year, and shopping is going to be all-Amazon-all-the-time.  No holiday strolls for me.  

Anyway, yeah, it's going to be a nice, long slog to get through the holidays wherein I am sure people will be losing their shit with me for not keeping up.