The days following the surgery have been great, absolutely no pain at all. As a Christian I put this down to God and the power of prayer of course. For none believers I’m happy for you to cite the skill of the surgeon and so on (but would point out that it's normal to pray for God to guide the surgeon’s hand etc). I do have to report a little stinging overnight last night continuing today but it is no more than that and compared to what I was expecting nothing of consequence.
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A Neat Dressing |
Above is the offending foot with dressing which is not as large as I was expecting (I get the feeling the whole thing has been widely exaggerated). If you look closely just below the dressing you can see the several puncture marks from the local anaesthetic; there are also some in the arch of the foot one of which can be seen in the photo with Hypatia giving it her expert examination (below).
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Dr Hypatia’s examination |
Indecently the body is a remarkable device, I’ve been googling the foot’s nervous system (I seem to have developed an interest there for some reason). It turns out feeling in the outside of the big toe (great toe if you a medical person) is controlled by a different set of nerves to the inside. One, the outside, comes across the instep of the foot the other from behind the achilles tendon and across the arch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorsal_digital_nerves_of_foot). Hence why I look like a pin cushion; there are other injection sites closer to the toe under the dressing too.
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