NOVEMBER 24

To the doctor. Will he remove the wires? The wires keep me from being in shoes. I think. It may be he also wants me to refrain from walking on the toes just yet. You can tell from this and above that the wires are important ‘markers’ to my healing progress.

A GREAT DAY! The doc removed both wires. They are longer than I would have thought, even though he had told me how long they were. They just kept coming and coming. WOW! This is so good because now I can begin again to walk in shoes. Doc said it’ll hurt at first, and I expected that, but I am much closer to BACK TO NORMAL. I won’t be tap-dancing right away, and can expect some pain and fatigue as I begin to reuse muscles I have had immobilized for the past 8 weeks!

And as we were leaving, he acknowledged that this one was pretty much a miracle.


(This from my usual blog www.woodsgoods.blogspot.com) WIRELESS TOES!
You bet! No bluetooth here. Yesterday the doc removed the wires from my toes. The wires were longer in real life than in my imagination. Removal did not hurt - I don't know if the nerves nearby were lost in the accident or what, but I can write I am really happy they are GONE!!! Why? So I can begin the process of reverting to shoes.

Doc said I can expect some pain, and indeed I do. I can tell from the little pulses of discomfort which periodically have visited, that putting weight - after 8 weeks - on it and the surrounding tissue, blown out and healing bones, will hurt.

On the other hand, he pulled off the toenail and I didn't feel it. So clearly some nerves are there, some not. I was told 2 of 4 were left. I was also told this was one of the 'miracle' saves the doc has performed this year. I don't think he was bragging.

So literally, it's now the next step

I did it. Not easy, but not as painful as I half-expected. The hard part was getting the foot with sock into any shoe. Analogy: like steering a blimp into a tight-fit hanger. That foot is swollen! Finally found an old sneaker which would widen nicely when the lace was taken out. (I look like a hip-hop guy except the sneaker isn’t blindingly white – it has miles on it.) I started with the walker then without and made several circuits around the house halls. Enough for now. As a precaution I took my very last Oxycontin which I had been saving for Lindsey or whichever Hollywood star it would attract. One small step for man...