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Extreme delay, much?

Haven't updated my blog in a little while, because there honestly hasn't been a whole lot to report.
I've had my four wires removed though, they were removed about a month ago now. Since the parentals were overseas and I didn't want them to come back to more hospital fees, I decided to stop being a wimp and get the wires removed in my surgeon's office for free. Took two Endone and two Panadol about an hour beforehand and that was it. And when it was over, I realised how silly it would have been if I'd elected to go
back under for it, it was all done so quickly.

Lying in my specialist's office, the band aids were removed from around the pin sites, my leg was cleaned with some sort of sanitising solution, possibly saline but I'm not too sure and then my wires were loosened slightly from my frame. It was all a very weird sensation, able to be felt actually within my leg, within my bone, almost verging on painful and yet not quite...not too sure exactly how to explain it, other than plain out weird.

Bit of bleeding afterwards...

Then the wires were both cut on the inside of my leg. My leg kind of felt a bit freer, but this is when it started getting a little uncomfortable - the wires felt as if they jolted my bone as they were cut. I was told to take a couple of deep breaths and then before I really knew what was going on, my surgeon pulled, hard, on the wires, one right after the other and they came out clean through the other side of my leg. The wire removal itself took maybe three seconds. Five at the absolute most. I yelled at this point, but it was more like a brief yelp than resembling an actual scream, heh.

About a month after the wire removal.

Mother of everything mighty, it hurt.

But only for about five seconds. Albeit those five seconds were pretty horrible...and then I think my body may have started going into shock or I was having some sort of adrenaline kicking in from the sudden pain - I'd suddenly become nauseated, dizzy and light headed, vision was blurry, had difficulty breathing and felt overall very weak. But had some water and my specialist talked me through taking some deep breaths and made me sit still for a little while. About five minutes later, I'd calmed down enough to get off the table and hobble around again, although the actual pain really only lasted a couple of seconds.

Six weeks of bone growth.

 The entire appointment from walking through his door to walking out again took maybe 10 - 15 minutes, definitely not worth having to pay anesthetist fees and clearing half a day to go into surgery for it. Waterproof bandages were put over the holes left in my leg that I was to leave in place for three days before we could take them off and then leave them uncovered.

As I said, that was about a month ago and the pin sites are almost completely healed now, I think. My ankle immediately felt much freer to move around after the removal and I have to say that I still don't regret a single thing I've done so far.

Except for not take a 'before' picture, forgetting to have done that still bugs me...

So apart from that, there hasn't been all too much change. There have been good and bad days, but mostly good days. I'm near bedridden for the bad days and the pain is enough that just rolling over in bed is agony, but I'm saying this more as a statement of fact of this is what happens rather than an actual complaint.

Had a check up a few days ago, have about six weeks of bone growth and my specialist seems happy with my progress, so I'm happy as well. ^_^