Recovery Week 5-6 and The Dream

Sorry I've been slacking. I haven't had much to say so instead of just talking your ear off about nothing, I just haven't been writing like at all. But these weeks were pretty uneventful, except for my awful dream!

Awful Dream
So my dream started out with me waking up and getting in the shower. I accidentally got my bandage wet and it disintegrated. So I got scared and went to the doctor so he could check it out. When he looked at my foot it was completely healed except for one little spot. So he stuck a bandaid on it and told me that I could start walking, but to take it easy. So I left so excited to be walking again!

Raw Chicken Foot!!!! 

Somehow I all of a sudden was home with my family in Colorado and my dad asked me to go help my mom (since she is in a wheelchair), So I went and helped my mom inside up the three steps we have from the driveway to inside the house. I looked down cause my foot was sore and I looked at it and it had split from one end to the other. However, it wasn't bloody. It looked like raw chicken. I was scared and went right back to the doctor's office. He walked in looked at it and said, "I don't know why this isn't healing, but you're going to have to get used to it cause that is what your foot is going to look like forever." Then I woke up.

OLD LADY FOOT!!!!

I was so out of sorts and just worried. It was so bad! I was so nervous. I know that's silly but it was just so crazy and bleh... I don't want a raw chicken foot!

My next appointment with the doctor was the next day and when they took the wrapping off my foot looked so gross! Its all dry-skin covered. GROSS! I was complaining about having an old lady foot before I told him about the dream. He laughed and told me that he will do his best to not let me get a raw chicken foot. He also checked my incision area and scraped some dead skin that had formed a callus off and told me that he was going to wait a week to take the stitches out just in case. He asked about my diet and I told him that I had been eating a lot of cereal because its easy and I don't like cooking on one leg. Its tiring. He told me to eat more protein, so goodbye cereal dinners. Then he wrapped it again and I asked about the post-op shoe he had mentioned during my previous appointment. We talked about it and I decided I wanted to get it. I really really really dislike my boot that I got after the surgery. I actually blame it for putting pressure on my incision area and causing the incision to open up again. Silly I know but that's the only possibility I can come up with. It also is super uncomfortable. The only upside is, it keeps my foot left warm.

Look how gross all the dead skin is! I want to scrub it off!

So I got the shoe and I have been using it for the last couple days. Its not super comfortable either but it is SOOOOOO much better than the boot cause it doesn't put pressure on my cut.

On Saturday night, my roommate came home and told me she had always wanted to buy a pedicure set thing with the dead skin scraper thing (not sure what they are called). So she did cause she had heard me talking about how gross my foot is. She asked if she could use it to scrape the dead skin off my heal, since that is the only part of my foot that is visible. I told her... YES PLEASE!!! She then scraped all the dead skin off my heal. It was gross. Pretty sure there was pretty close to 1/8 cup of dead skin in that thing! I have the best roommate to offering and then scraping dead skin off my foot. She made my day and not I'm not as embarrassed by my heel. It feels so nice to have at least my heel back to normal-ish-ness. Now if only everything would return to normal?

Well hopefully the next post will be about me getting my stitches out, and keeping them out. I think I am just a slow healer, or maybe the cereal diet has slowed my healing. Who knows.... I am going to eat protein like there is no tomorrow so I can heal this thing so I can start walking again, someday... My calves are different sizes so I may start walking in circles if that day ever comes....

Until next time! :)