I have never had a bunionette or a corn removed, but it sounds like it is a fairly simple deal.
Your husband is probably right. There are a lot of us who push ourselves too hard too fast. It is hard when you have been looking forward to surgery after hurting or having difficulties and you have put your faith and hope in the dr being able to make everything better by performing a procedure on you. So, when we are on the other side of the surgery we move our focus from what the surgery is going to be like and any other thoughts about the actual operation and on to the return of normal life and activity. Our minds rarely stop naturally to think there is a recovery time and we need to let our bodies heal before we reach the activity level we are accustomed to or have dreamed of. We want to jump right off the operating table and into our normal active lives. We need to slow down and remind ourselves to take the time necessary to let our body do what it needs to do in order to have a full recovery.
The advice the drs almost always give is to let pain be your guide. When it starts to hurt you need to stop. That is easier said than done. Sometimes your adrenaline is flowing because you are so happy to be up and moving around, so you don't notice the pain creeping up until it is super bad.
Also, there are times we get in too deep and do not have a way to get out easily. For example, I can remember one time I was on crutches and I had recently gone through a serious surgery on my ankle. My little girl was starting kindergarten and the school was hosting an open house. Of course, I couldn't miss the opportunity to see her classroom, meet her teacher, and see the excitement on her face while she checked everything out.
Well, her room ended up being on the other side of the building. I crutched my way to the room quickly as I tried to keep up. Once I got to the room, I started to sweat profusely and my arms were shaking from all the extra exertion. I sat down on one of the itsy bitsy kindergarten chairs and tried to rest, but I knew it was going to be extremely hard to get to the exit. My husband tried to think of another way to get me out of the building, but there was no way around it - I was going to have to crutch it back to the front door. I was just going to take it easy and stop and rest whenever I needed to. It took me quite a while, but I made it. I laid on the couch without moving except to go to the bathroom for the next 2-3 days. Of course it was worth it, but I could have planned better. I could have taken a wheelchair and wheeled myself to her room. I'm sorry about the length of this post, but I couldn't help but share that story. At least there is a moral to it.
My last bit of advice about not overdoing it has to do with pain meds. If we are supposed to let pain be our guide, then we need to remember that the pain meds impact how quickly or how much pain we feel. It is cheating your body and your recovery to think - If I am supposed to slow down or stop as soon as my pain is more than just a discomfort, then I will take pain med, so my pain cannot reach that point. By doing that, you risk delaying your recovery or even worse you can adversely affect the outcome depending on what work you had done and how much you overdo it. I recently had bunion surgery and ended up with an infection. My dr said my infection may not have been due to my overdoing it, but it is likely that the rate at which the infection worsened and the degree of the symptoms were definitely impacted by the fact that I was not resting and elevating it as much as I should have because I was busy doing housework and then returning to my job. Also, the infection was bad enough I ended up in the hospital again and actually had to take an extra 30 days off work. Trying to get back to work before my body was ready ended up costing me a month's worth of work and some of my salary.
I hope things go well for you. Listen to your husband and try to take it easy.
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