So what’s wrong with me?

I have a Lateral taler dome enterer osteoschondral defect with chronic synovitis

In the subtaler joint I have a lateral process of the talus fracture which is more commonly known as “snowboarders ankle”

All I know is that over the past four months I have been in constant pain, despite rest and being placed in a “moon boot” for four week,  the pain (the worst I have ever experinced) and inablity to walk or weight bare comfortably on the ankle (I’ve been virtually full time crutches for the past 6 weeks)  has got to me the point I am now unable to work.

I have spent the past couple of weeks trying to build my strength up to put myself in the best condition for surgery.

Part of who I am as a person is what I do for a job, right now that job is getting myself better so I can return to work.

Currently I am unable to stand for longer than five minutes at a time and unable to walk any great distance without stopping for a rest.

Being on crutches means I am loading up various parts of my body to compenstate and they are not coping with this pressure.

There for I am now soley foccused on recovery. To date I have been doing “pre-hab” and surgery is scheduled for the morning of Wednesday.

The surgery itself is fairly short around 45 minutes however the preperation will take time. Thankfully the bulk of the surgery will be by arthroscopy, with one open incission to remove a bone fragment.

I have a checklist of things I need to do and not do prior to surgery and having not been through surgery as an adult it will be an interesting experince.

I’m not going to post more about my fear and concerns as yet, I don’t think that would be wise.

So for now, I think I have managed to finally get this post out of my system and I can now try and hopefully get some sleep!