Thanks you guys! I'm doing
Thanks you guys! I'm doing much better this afternoon. This foot was much worse, pain-wise post-surgery, than the first one, and I really was fretting laying here in so much pain. The Demerol was good for the first foot, but I found the Codeine to work better for this foot, it just took a few hours to figure it out. :-(
Jörn, to be honest, I will continue to live and run barefoot as I have been, but I may wear a pair of :sexy: high heels once or twice a year to go to a banquet or party. I am a girl, after all. Everything in moderation, and shoes for me will be extremely moderate. I will also be able to wear footwear when the temps are in the 20s and 30s now, but will I? Probably not or most of the time not. I plan to only wear minshoes when they are truly needed, extreme temps, difficult terrain. But you all know me. I like to run barefoot, even when the trail is difficult and even when the temps are extreme. I guess I will just take it day-by-day.
Willie, All, what happened was they removed the scarred, defective nerves from the interspaces (between) the 2nd & 3rd and 3rd & 4th metatarsals (two on each foot). When they do that, they take out the nerve branch along with the defective nerve/neuroma. The nerve branch runs up between the metatarsals and brances off to both toes on either side of the nerve. My middle toe will be numb, and the two toes on either side will be half numb, the side of the toe that is closest to the middle toe. I will have feeling on the other side of toes 2 and 4. I will eventually have feeling in the majority of the balls of my feet but probably not at the base. We'll see.
The red box is where the numbness will be. I will have to be extra careful when running barefoot because I won't know if I've hurt myself while running (or walking) until I get home to wash my feet or check on them now and again during my runs (like who wants to do that?).