Day 3 Post-Op

Phew! Yesterday was a real test of the foot. As I mentioned, it was my son's 3 year old birthday party yesterday, and while my wife tried to make it as painless on me as possible, there was still a lot of activity going on. I can only watch for so long before I have to jump into the mix. So I spent a good portion of the day on my feet, cooking, socializing, and chasing kids around.

Finally, when everyone left around 8PM or so, I sat down on the couch and realized that my foot had swelled up quite a bit. It didn't really hurt that much, but it was big. So I followed the basic RICE recipe of icing, elevation, and some ibuprofen and called it a night around 10PM.

I've been sleeping with my foot elevated on a couple of pillows all night, and I slept great again last night without any pain until about 5AM, when I woke up to a shooting pain right in the big toe joint. I went down stairs and took some of the prescribed vicoden, which at least helped me sleep until the kids woke up around 6:30.

This morning, most of the swelling from yesterday has gone away and the shooting pain that I had in the toe earlier this morning is only there when my foot is elevated. I think that is a little strange. From what I've read, people usually get relief from the pain by elevating their foot. For me, the pain is at it worst when I elevate the foot. If I'm walking around or even sitting it's much more manageable.

I took today off of work, and tomorrow I'm working from home. I'm still targeting Wednesday as my first day in the office which will be a challenge. I have about a quarter mile walk to the train station from my house, then a 45 minute train ride and then a mile walk from the train station downtown to my office. If I had to do it today, I probably could, so hopefully with two more days of healing it will be even more manageable. If not, I'll have to buck my cheapo ways and pay for a cab for a few days. Ugh. For a cheapskate like me, that's really painful.