1.5 Months After Surgery

The picture on the left is my foot in the air & the picture on the right is my foot on the floor. I wanted to show the true placement of my toes. I'm so happy my doctor was right & they have relaxed! This is only 1.5 months after surgery, so my scars are very noticable. I keep putting cocoa butter (vitamin E) on them twice a day, & the scars have and will continue to fade.

The 2nd Pin Comes Out

At my 3 week check-up, my 3rd pin was removed. My toes still look very weird at this point. My doctor kept reassuring me that my toes will relax, because he saw the worry on my face!!

One Pin Comes Out

As I stated in my last post, my doctor wanted to stretch my toes. After looking at the placement of my 3rd toe at our 2 week check-up, he decided to remove that pin. *Pins aren't supposed to be removed until the 3rd week* Of course before I went through with my surgery, I did research on it. I saw reports of people having "floppy" toes after their pins were removed, so I was affraid that would happen to me. My doctor said "it SHOULDN'T be floppy.." (which didn't make me feel confident!)... but I went through with it anyways. When he removed it, my toe cracked a little bit, which was a good sign meaning that the bone was developed.

Now... THE LEFT FOOT!!!

This 1 week after surgery (the 1st time I saw my foot since the surgery). Needless to say, I was HORRIFIED when I saw my foot! I had my right foot done a year before, & I was expecting my foot to look like that. If you look at the pictures of my right foot, you can clearly see that it looks totally different! My doctor told me that he wanted to stretch my toes, so that's why they look like that.

I was curious as to why the recovery of my left foot was MUCH worse than the one of my right. I had a dream recovery of my right foot, but I had constant throbbing pains in my left toes.. which is because of the stretching.