One week later

Things continue to move in the right direction. Wednesday was my first day back in office, and I was a bit nervous about the long walk from the train to my building. It took a long time, (25 minute walk instead of the usual 15 minutes), but I made it. My foot was sore when I finally got into the office, but it wasn't so much from the surgery but more from the overcompensation. My ankle and knee actually hurt worse than the toe. The walk back to the train was a bit of a pain as well, but I made it.

Thursday was more of the same, but the walk was much better and if I didn't have a gigantic boot on my foot, you probably wouldn't even know that I had surgery 6 days ago. The limp was almost completely gone and other some occasional shoots of pain, things felt good.

I then had a check-up around noon to get the dressing changed and I had my first look at the scar on my foot. It wasn't pretty. It's about 3 inches long and all discolored and scary looking. I should have brought a camera to take a picture of it. A medical student was the first one to look at it and he said it looks healed and I think we'll take the stitches out today. Now if this thing was healed, I hate to see what it looks like when it's not healed. Luckily the doctor could come in before he could get his scissors out and put a stop to this crazy talk. The stitches will come out in one more week.

They took xrays and compared them to last time and things look good. It's a little weird seeing a staple in the middle of my toe, but it's small and hopefully I'll never know it's there. They rewrapped everything and sent me on my way, and for some reason, my foot hurt like crazy the rest of the day. Maybe it was just the exposure to air or something.

Today things continue to improve and when I realized I was late for the train this moring, I actually ran, with my boot on and all) the half mile to the train. The people on the street probably thought I was a bit nuts, but it didn't really hurt. Then at lunch, I hit the gym for a 30 minute ride on the stationary bike. It was the first physical activity I've done since the surgery and it felt great to finally sweat. Again the foot held up fine. I'm hopeful that in one more week, once the stitches come out, I'll be ready to do some easy running on this thing. So far, things are going great.