Here's an email I sent to some friends a few moments ago, but I wanted to share with all of my friends here too:
[size=2 face=Arial>Okay, finally, it is done, and boy did it hurt like a beeatch! Not so much the 4 little itsy bitsy, teensy weensy incisions (through the toe webbing) that allowed the probe in to freeze the nerves, you know, the whole cryosurgery procedure itself; mostly, I didn't feel all that, well except that one nerve where I actually could feel the freezing when he turned up the dial (I guess that nerve wasn't quite numb enough), then had to back it off and up it again, on and on, but the actual numbing shots, 12 in all, hurt worse than any others I have experienced thus far. It's not like I haven't already experienced exactly 25 needles in my feet prior to these through all the cortisone, alcohol sclerosing, and shockwave therapy numbing injections, but 8 of these shots were placed long ways through the fine webbing between the toes. He froze one nerve on each foot on one day, then I went back two days later, so he could freeze the other two nerves, one in each foot. Yea, I went back. I seriously thought about not going back, maybe getting an anesthesiologist to put me out on another day, so he could finish the job. I thought, I'll gladly fly back down to Tampa and do this all over again if I could just be put under for it all. It was that painful. My ex-marine hubby told me to gut it out, rub some mud in it, get back in there. And the good doc gave me a prescription for some Xanax, so when I did return for the second round, I wouldn't be so freaked. It worked! Only 2 of the 6 shots were bad, and I tolerated the rest very well.
[size=2 face=Arial>After the procedure was over, I could walk. I can walk now. It hurts a bit when I do, and it feels like I am walking on two large, hard, sharp stones under the balls of my feet. But I'm really just sore. I am supposed to stay off my feet for 3 - 5 days and no running for 2 weeks. NO RUNNING FOR TWO WEEKS! I plan to run a simple 5K barefoot at the end of this month. This is an event I started and have been planning to run for the past four months, the All American 5K, a benefit run for Lt. Daniel Berschinski who lost both of his legs when he stepped on an IED in Afghanistan back in August. He is coming home from Walter Reed that day. He was a high school track and cross country runner here locally, and his parents are in my shod running club. He lost both his legs for me, for all of us, and here I am complaining about my feet. Perspective, TJ, perspective.
[size=2 face=Arial>It's over for now, hopefully forever. We will only know how well it worked for me as the weeks pass. The reason...[size=2 face=Arial>the nerves will die a little tiny bit each day, so in a few weeks, up to six weeks, we will know better if this procedure was a success. If not, or even if it's just partially a success, I can always repeat it again in a few months, right?! After the procedure was over, I could walk. I can walk now. It hurts a bit when I do, and it feels like I am walking on two large, hard, sharp stones under the balls of my feet. But I'm really just sore. I am supposed to stay off my feet for 3 - 5 days and no running for 2 weeks. NO RUNNING FOR TWO WEEKS! I plan to run a simple 5K barefoot at the end of this month. This is an event I started and have been planning to run for the past four months, the All American 5K, a benefit run for Lt. Daniel Berschinski who lost both of his legs when he stepped on an IED in Afghanistan back in August. He is coming home from Walter Reed that day. He was a high school track and cross country runner here locally, and his parents are in my shod running club. He lost both his legs for me, for all of us, and here I am complaining about my feet. Perspective, TJ, perspective. [/size=2 face=Arial>It's over for now, hopefully forever. We will only know how well it worked for me as the weeks pass. The reason...[/size=2 face=Arial>the nerves will die a little tiny bit each day, so in a few weeks, up to six weeks, we will know better if this procedure was a success. If not, or even if it's just partially a success, I can always repeat it again in a few months, right?!
[size=2 face=Arial>Okay, finally, it is done, and boy did it hurt like a beeatch! Not so much the 4 little itsy bitsy, teensy weensy incisions (through the toe webbing) that allowed the probe in to freeze the nerves, you know, the whole cryosurgery procedure itself; mostly, I didn't feel all that, well except that one nerve where I actually could feel the freezing when he turned up the dial (I guess that nerve wasn't quite numb enough), then had to back it off and up it again, on and on, but the actual numbing shots, 12 in all, hurt worse than any others I have experienced thus far. It's not like I haven't already experienced exactly 25 needles in my feet prior to these through all the cortisone, alcohol sclerosing, and shockwave therapy numbing injections, but 8 of these shots were placed long ways through the fine webbing between the toes. He froze one nerve on each foot on one day, then I went back two days later, so he could freeze the other two nerves, one in each foot. Yea, I went back. I seriously thought about not going back, maybe getting an anesthesiologist to put me out on another day, so he could finish the job. I thought, I'll gladly fly back down to Tampa and do this all over again if I could just be put under for it all. It was that painful. My ex-marine hubby told me to gut it out, rub some mud in it, get back in there. And the good doc gave me a prescription for some Xanax, so when I did return for the second round, I wouldn't be so freaked. It worked! Only 2 of the 6 shots were bad, and I tolerated the rest very well.
[size=2 face=Arial>After the procedure was over, I could walk. I can walk now. It hurts a bit when I do, and it feels like I am walking on two large, hard, sharp stones under the balls of my feet. But I'm really just sore. I am supposed to stay off my feet for 3 - 5 days and no running for 2 weeks. NO RUNNING FOR TWO WEEKS! I plan to run a simple 5K barefoot at the end of this month. This is an event I started and have been planning to run for the past four months, the All American 5K, a benefit run for Lt. Daniel Berschinski who lost both of his legs when he stepped on an IED in Afghanistan back in August. He is coming home from Walter Reed that day. He was a high school track and cross country runner here locally, and his parents are in my shod running club. He lost both his legs for me, for all of us, and here I am complaining about my feet. Perspective, TJ, perspective.
[size=2 face=Arial>It's over for now, hopefully forever. We will only know how well it worked for me as the weeks pass. The reason...[size=2 face=Arial>the nerves will die a little tiny bit each day, so in a few weeks, up to six weeks, we will know better if this procedure was a success. If not, or even if it's just partially a success, I can always repeat it again in a few months, right?! After the procedure was over, I could walk. I can walk now. It hurts a bit when I do, and it feels like I am walking on two large, hard, sharp stones under the balls of my feet. But I'm really just sore. I am supposed to stay off my feet for 3 - 5 days and no running for 2 weeks. NO RUNNING FOR TWO WEEKS! I plan to run a simple 5K barefoot at the end of this month. This is an event I started and have been planning to run for the past four months, the All American 5K, a benefit run for Lt. Daniel Berschinski who lost both of his legs when he stepped on an IED in Afghanistan back in August. He is coming home from Walter Reed that day. He was a high school track and cross country runner here locally, and his parents are in my shod running club. He lost both his legs for me, for all of us, and here I am complaining about my feet. Perspective, TJ, perspective. [/size=2 face=Arial>It's over for now, hopefully forever. We will only know how well it worked for me as the weeks pass. The reason...[/size=2 face=Arial>the nerves will die a little tiny bit each day, so in a few weeks, up to six weeks, we will know better if this procedure was a success. If not, or even if it's just partially a success, I can always repeat it again in a few months, right?!