Had my two week check up today and got GREAT news. My joint is already fused 100%! You can't even see where there used to be a joint. As a precaution, he is going to follow protocol and keep me in the cast until mid March just to see that everything is hard as a rock. After all I have gone through he doesn't want to take any chances. I was so happy when I got out of the office I cried. It's been a long hard time full of stress and I am finally starting to see light at the end of the tunnel! Thank you to all of you for your support!
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
~Kimberly
Had my two week check up today and got GREAT news. My joint is already fused 100%! You can't even see where there used to be a joint. As a precaution, he is going to follow protocol and keep me in the cast until mid March just to see that everything is hard as a rock. After all I have gone through he doesn't want to take any chances. I was so happy when I got out of the office I cried. It's been a long hard time full of stress and I am finally starting to see light at the end of the tunnel! Thank you to all of you for your support!
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
~Kimberly
Congrats, glad you got good news!
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Surgery 3/5/13 - Modified Brostrom Repair with allograft and removal of scar tissue from peroneal tendon, L Ankle
Had my two week check up today and got GREAT news. My joint is already fused 100%! You can't even see where there used to be a joint. As a precaution, he is going to follow protocol and keep me in the cast until mid March just to see that everything is hard as a rock. After all I have gone through he doesn't want to take any chances. I was so happy when I got out of the office I cried. It's been a long hard time full of stress and I am finally starting to see light at the end of the tunnel! Thank you to all of you for your support!
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
~Kimberly
Congrats Kimberly, that is great and so fast. Best to take it cautiously. Looks like you had pretty much what I had done and I am now almost 20 weeks out and been walking in sneakers for over a month with a very slight limp that I am sure will go away. Swelling is almost gone. Once you are in a walking boot mid march you will start PT which I actually enjoyed. YOu will have a faster recovering than me. I was 10 weeks before the boot and you will be 6 weeks which is really fast.
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Triple Arthrodesis and Achilles lengthening 9/28/12
__________________ 10/2001 Left kneecap tightened and LR
06/2003 Modified Brostrom on right ankle
10/2012 Biopsies under general
12/2012 Arthroscopy, impingement removed with Brostrom-Evans procedure
Good news great to hear! best of luck with it all1
__________________ Surgery done! Fibula bone manipulated and pinned into place plus ligaments repaired. Not sure of all details of whats done till see ortho
Last time it took 12 weeks when I had it done before the re-break. This time he used a bone grafting putty that contained live bone cells mixed with my blood and filled the joint with that which stimulated bone growth.
For the love of god, do not let a novice PT touch that foot!
__________________ Jan 18, 2013: PTT transfer, peroneal longus to brevis tendon transfer, calcaneal osteotomy with medial slide, plantar fascia release
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Had my two week check up today and got GREAT news. My joint is already fused 100%! You can't even see where there used to be a joint. As a precaution, he is going to follow protocol and keep me in the cast until mid March just to see that everything is hard as a rock. After all I have gone through he doesn't want to take any chances. I was so happy when I got out of the office I cried. It's been a long hard time full of stress and I am finally starting to see light at the end of the tunnel! Thank you to all of you for your support!
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
~Kimberly
That's such good news so happy for you.
__________________ 1/24/11 accessory navicular bone removed
Yay! So gosh darn happy for you! I think you have a lot of prayers going your way. You are a very special person on this board and I'm sure in your "real life" too.
xxoo,
Ginger
Oh I'm SOOOOO happy and excited for you!! Bless your heart you've been through so much! So glad your doctor realizes all you've been through and is protecting you by continuing to follow protocol! That's awesome that its already 100% fused! Is that quicker than he thought? What's the normal time for fusion?
Oh Kimberly!! Sooooo happy for you right now!! Absolutely awesome news!! Hope the healing keeps progressing successfully - yayy!!
__________________ Julie
6 Oct '12: OCD talar, lat menis lesion, decomp ant ankle, osteotomy post proc talus, synovec post ankle, modified Brostrom-Gould, release PTT
Great news, let's hear it for bone grafting putty and red blood cells!!! Good to know of that procedure and fast healing results. Wishing you safe PT and a great turnout this time!!!
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Lyn~ 9/19/12
Type 1 Accessory Navicular,PTTD,FDL Transfer,Full Kidner
Spring ligament repair,Peroneal Brevis repair,subluxed Peroneal Longus repair.
Happy to hear you are healing well!! I have a question....when the ankle is fused do you lose rom? I know one Dr said that is what he usually does but he referred me on to another surgeon to avoid fusing it. I have never understood exactly what happens when they fuse the ankle. Dr said he would fuse my big toe after stealing the tendon for my ankle. I expected to not have much movement in it, but am really surprised it feels pretty normal.
Hope your recovery continues to go well!!
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FDL to PTT transfer, calcaneal osteotomy with medial slide & lateral column lengthening, gastrocnemius recession, first TMT arthrodesis, bone graft from calcaneus to first TMT joint.....Oofda!
I missed this! What fabulous news!!! How cool that it fused to fast. I guess it's good he's being so cautious but I wish you were out of the cast already.
__________________ Peroneal brevis debridement; peroneal longus transfer to brevis: tenosynovectomy, 11/20/12
One Month Post Op-GREAT NEWS! 
so happy for you.
