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Littlejem zauberflöte!
Hi Ladies! How are you all doing? Sorry that I haven't been posting, but I've been preoccupied with a swollen, red toe, not painful. It started a couple of weeks ago, didn't go away, so last Mon. saw the foot MD, who didn't give much of a diagnosis, no fracture. There were also a few red dots on the bottoms of various toes, too. So I was still worried and went to my primary, who was wondering if it was an arthritic toe (there's a question if I have sero-negative rheumatoid arthritis), so he had me go to the rheumatologist, who wondered if it was some type of embolism, and sent me to a vascular MD. He said it wasn't serious, probably because I was walking like Frankenstein post op and may've stubbed it, put extra stress on the toes, etc. No treatment needed, just watch and wait, and it seems to be getting slowly better.
So I saw 5 people about this toe last week, plus Physio 3 times! Yikes! When I was in the midst of all this, I wasn't posting. No time, really.
Anyhow - I'm OK, thanks for checking in. Hips seem to be doing pretty good. I'm walking without a cane, able to run simple errands, clean the house a little, do light laundry. Of course, with all of this activity, I can't say that I'm painfree. The incision sites get sore, the thighs, knee and lower legs can all ache a bit. But my walking is good, I've even gone to the pool and paddled around some. Of course, the more I do, the more the aches come. 5 weeks post op today!