The Journey
I am sharing my journey from start to finish to provide that little extra help for those looking for information and are either thinking of having cheilectomy surgery or have planned the date already.
I hope to help answer or at least shed some light on questions such as these:
- Is Cheilectomy Surgery Painful?
- How Long does it take to Recover from a Cheilectomy?
- How is a Cheilectomy Performed?
- Can You Walk After Bone Spur Surgery?
- Should I Have a Cheilectomy?
- When Can I Walk after Cheilectomy?
- Is Hallux Rigidus Surgery Successful?
day 0 (day of surgery)
Day of surgery Arrival time for surgery was 8:30 AM and had to fast (no food/drink) after midnight of the ...
day 1 (day after surgery)
Day after surgery So after Day 0 (day of surgery) I went home, and 90% of time had foot up ...
day 2 ( recovery day)
Slightly better then day 1 Slept little better, still got up in middle of night to take a pain reliever, ...
day 3 (72 hrs after)
72 hours after surgery Slept better at night, was pain level of 0 during sleep and didn't need to take ...
day 4-5 (recovery cont…)
This day was little better then previous, which is the goal of course. Hobbled around on the heel a litter ...
