The last couple days have been terrible. Before I left the doctor saw my X-ray and I had a complication with the nail and needed surgery The next morning
Show in X-ray below, 3cm gain
https://imgur.com/gallery/p7hHNPX
before and after surgery. (Right leg X-ray doesn’t count, it’s the ones that say L)
From my first X-ray I always thought the nail looked weird, and everyone said it was fine. However the distal part of the nail got stuck and is pulling the nail down and bending the pins. It looks a lot better after correction, but I’m upset having to go through surgery again. I appreciate the doctor doing it for no cost, however I wonder why the nail become like this in the first place, it always looked off from my very first X-ray.
It wasn’t as bad as the initial surgery but I went through a lot of suffering especially mentally and also pain. They took out the nail, replaced pins and screws, and fixed the angle
The correction looks much better and straight.
I was super nervous and stressed the whole night, when I got to the hospital it seemed like a flashback of my first surgery. Finally they took me to the operating room, and I was knocked out and woke up super cold and shivering. There was high pain for the first hour after surgery. Then it subsided most of it after they gave me pain medicine in the iv. I was discharged at 9:30pm. Since the morning, the hospital pain medicine has subsided and even with me taking prescribed medicine I have been in constant around 5/10 pain level. My leg is also swelling now. It didn’t matter to me I had to make it home, I made it to the airport from Istanbul and am now in Germany, waiting for my next flight to board back home. It is an 11 hour flight. I have pain but I am pushing through it. So much got in the way, surgery before my flight, the airport workers refusing to board me at first until I got a fit to fly medical paper sent from the doctor. I felt bad I woke him up at 5am, honestly he’s a really good hearted guy as far as personality, and looks out for his patients for a lot of things
Hopefully I pray I don’t have anymore issues, if I do I might just stop early of my goal. We shall see. I also know of another patient that had the same problem recently, I don’t think it’s common but it can happen. Everyone thinks they won’t get a complication and then it happens. This surgery is a carousel of pain, from pinsite infection to complication etc. I really wish I had went with precice 2, I would have just the nail inserted and no infection or correction/frame removal extra surgieries.
Even if it’s not weight bearing, I’m very light so it would have been a much better choice. I wouldn’t be able to go through what I went through again, even if it was a free LL or I got paid to do it, I’m drained. It’s not easy, people can tell you “tough it out it’s only 45 days left”, and have no idea how tough it is to get past each day. To make it to 7.5cm or 8, it is like climbing a mountain and when you are exhausted midway you have to keep climbing still
Alot of people fear posting on the forum because it gets around to the team, but I feel that is deceptive, you should share and be transparent of your entire experience. I’m not saying anything negative, just my experiences, all of them