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Many of you may be reading this to see how I am doing on my upcoming surgery, or you have done a lot of research on sesamoidectomies and want to follow my story. I decided to keep a blog about this process because I could not find a lot of information on this surgery in people my age and I also wanted to keep everyone posted on my recovery. I am seventeen and about two and a half years ago I started having foot pain in my right foot. It started as just being a little pain that I could handle, but after a few months I had to go to the doctor. My dad and I went to our local orthopedist and got some x-rays taken. As we suspected, I had broken one of the two sesamoid bones in my foot. The shocking part was that it had actually broken all the way through. The doctor put me in a walking boot for a few weeks and had me come back for another visit. After the few weeks were up, we took some more x-rays and the bone made no process healing. The doctor kept me in the boot and told me there was nothing else he could do. My family and I were not pleased with this so we went to get a second opinion from Dr. Myerson at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Myerson is one of the world's foremost experts on foot and ankle reconstruction and injury. The day of our appointment, we went in and there were three other doctors with him. They were from Australia, China, and South Africa. They took x-rays again to take a look at my foot. When they came out, he gave me three options. They were to put a screw in the bone, take the bone out, or a new noninvasive surgery. The new surgery was very unique and interesting. While under general anesthesia the doctors hook your foot up to a machine and send 2,000 shock waves through your foot to stimulate the blood flow back into your bone which will help it fuse back together. After careful consideration, we decided to go through with the new surgery. The surgery worked for a little while but after about a year and a half I started getting foot pain again and had to go back. We found out that my bone was broken in half again and I was given other options. My family and I decided that the best choice was to take the bone out, called a sesamoidectomy. The recovery will take ten weeks and my surgery is on January 2nd. I am really looking forward to the surgery because it has come to the point where it just hurts when I am sitting down doing nothing. I'll keep you posted as the process continues!
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Three Days Until Surgery 12/30/2012
Many of you may be reading this to see how I am doing on my upcoming surgery, or you have done a lot of research on sesamoidectomies and want to follow my story. I decided to keep a blog about this process because I could not find a lot of information on this surgery in people my age and I also wanted to keep everyone posted on my recovery. I am seventeen and about two and a half years ago I started having foot pain in my right foot. It started as just being a little pain that I could handle, but after a few months I had to go to the doctor. My dad and I went to our local orthopedist and got some x-rays taken. As we suspected, I had broken one of the two sesamoid bones in my foot. The shocking part was that it had actually broken all the way through. The doctor put me in a walking boot for a few weeks and had me come back for another visit. After the few weeks were up, we took some more x-rays and the bone made no process healing. The doctor kept me in the boot and told me there was nothing else he could do. My family and I were not pleased with this so we went to get a second opinion from Dr. Myerson at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Myerson is one of the world's foremost experts on foot and ankle reconstruction and injury. The day of our appointment, we went in and there were three other doctors with him. They were from Australia, China, and South Africa. They took x-rays again to take a look at my foot. When they came out, he gave me three options. They were to put a screw in the bone, take the bone out, or a new noninvasive surgery. The new surgery was very unique and interesting. While under general anesthesia the doctors hook your foot up to a machine and send 2,000 shock waves through your foot to stimulate the blood flow back into your bone which will help it fuse back together. After careful consideration, we decided to go through with the new surgery. The surgery worked for a little while but after about a year and a half I started getting foot pain again and had to go back. We found out that my bone was broken in half again and I was given other options. My family and I decided that the best choice was to take the bone out, called a sesamoidectomy. The recovery will take ten weeks and my surgery is on January 2nd. I am really looking forward to the surgery because it has come to the point where it just hurts when I am sitting down doing nothing. I'll keep you posted as the process continues!
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