2-full Days Post-Op

Did my customary Saturday leg swing today.  After being rested in an upright position for two full days in a row my new surgical sites did not appreciate being lowered to below the knee height.  Blood rushed to my foot causing some considerable, but bearable pain.  Since I was still taking some considerable pain medication I didn't manage to walk anywhere but it's set me up for my next piece of recovery advice.  For this stage post-op I have found it best to lower the affected leg over the side of the bed about once every 20-minutes/half an hour or so and lift and lower it using your thigh muscles.  This lets your thigh get used to the extra weight of the cast and lets your new leg get used to the blood flow.

Pain currently at an all time low, probably around a 3.  Not improved by the current set of nurses who are extremely patronizing and still insist on trying to make me wiggle my toes and, despite my yelps of pain, poking them!  I suspect if I still had the adorable ladies from this morning I'd be on a 1 and be less annoyed!

2-ish Days Post Op

A little toe pain this morning,  Not assisted in any way by the rude and abrupt on call team who dashed in and asked me, in an extremely patronizing manner, to wiggle my toes.  I pointed out that they had pins in and were not really wiggle-able and was then asked, in an even more patronizing manner, 'not even a little bit?'.  I honestly don't know where they get some of these people.  Since I could not produce sufficient wiggle for Dr Rude I was poked quite stiffly on one of my toe knuckles, which have lovely stitches in them and don't appreciate being poked and so this elicited a nice gasp of pain from me.  This obviously wasn't enough for the sadist nurse who was accompanying Dr Rude because she then yanked the dressing down further and poked a different toe producing a yelp loud enough to be heard by the staff nurse who came in after to give me clean sheets and sympathy.  I'm thinking of getting a sign put above my bed saying 'No I can't wiggle my toes' to save me time!

Other than the slight toe pain the nerve block appears to be all gone so I can lift my leg and move it around quite happily now so I'm hoping the physio will be in for a bit of morning practice with some kind of walking aid....not the zimmer frame PLEASE not the zimmer frame...