What Fun

For a time now Dan has been having trouble with a bunion on his left foot. Two years ago he had a small surgery that was suppose to help it but it did not really do the job and it had gotten pretty bad again. A bigger repair was done a week ago and we are hoping that it will be much better after it heals.

Before the surgery you can see where the baby toe is sticking out on the side.He emerged from surgery with a great big bandage on his foot. The surgeon straightened out the toe and placed 2 little screws in the bone to hold it in place until it healed. There was also another little bone spur on the top of his foot that was removed.

Three days later we went back in to have it casted. After the bandage came off you can see what repair was made. The toe is much straighter now.

Also notice the rash on his leg. That should have given us a clue that his leg was not happy all bandaged up. We weren't listening though.

They fixed him up with a pretty orange cast. It was on his leg for less than 24 hours.

In the evening of that day he broke out in hives, especially in places that were closed in and a little warm - not fun. A big problem though was that where we could see underneath his cast it was all broke out. It was driving him CRAZY. In being married to Dan for 34 years I have never seen him be so bothered by anything. We went to the ER and waited and waited and waited and eventually they gave him Benadryl - whoppee, and then they did split open his cast. The resident that was seeing him was a little hesitant to just take it off and by this time the Benadryl had worked some so it was a little better. To make a long story short he should have just taken the thing off. We got home about 2:00 AM and were able to sleep. In the morning it was bad again so off to the clinic this time. They finished the job that had been started in the ER the night before and this is what his leg looked like

His surgeon saw him and was dumbfounded as to what was going on. He was put into a boot instead of a cast and it appears that he will just stay in it. His doctor's comment was "you are just a very complex person".

Stay tuned for the ongoing adventures of Dan's bunion - or non bunion at this point.