It's been over 6 months since my surgery.
Here's all the bad:
I continue to have terrible stiffness in my ankle when I first get up to move around. Part of my foot (lateral side from heel to half way down foot) is numb or has very little feeling. The rest of my foot is still very sensitive and stepping on a grain of sand still feels like a needle. A walk for over an hour results in very sore toes and horrible burning in my plantar fascia. An 8 hour workday also results in swelling of my foot. Lastly, the burning pain on the lateral side of my heel and in my achilles has not gone away. It still happens randomly and is miserable.
Here's the good:
I can almost go up on my toes using just my bad foot/ankle. I can fly across country with a compression sock and have minimal swelling (only around my toes). The bottom of my foot is slowly becoming less sensitive.
Still believe the osteotomy was not necessary and only served as a $ maker for my surgeon. Sure, my foot is now "perfectly" aligned but at what cost? A surgeon needs to take more into account than just the perfect alignment - age, stage in life, etc. Perhaps the surgery could have been justified if I was rolling my ankle every month or 18 years old with a very active future ahead of me.
I'm obviously still bitter.
