Here is the screw they took out next to a nickel for comparison.

Yesterday I had the long awaited surgery and finally got “un-screwed” by the Army. The procedure was relatively easy but with a slight complication. The doc said the screw was definitely backing out. That caused it to slightly tear the tendon on the outside of the foot. So besides taking the screw out she also had to repair the tendon.

The recovery is going so easy it’s hard to imagine I even had surgery. As you can see below the wrap is much less intense than last year. And with keeping up on my Percocet regiment I haven’t had any significant pain.

Actually, everything feels so eerily the same it’s almost as if I’ve been transplanted back to last year and nothing has happened in between!

Brittany has been amazing at taking care of me, too. She’s been on top of my meds schedule, preparing my ice packs, and making me food and, most importantly, coffee!

Everything has screwed up my sleep schedule a bit. Coming from the guy who falls asleep whenever I site in one place for too long, taking two Percocet last night actually had me up until about 2 a.m.

Here is a comparison between my surgery last year and how the recovery looks thus far.

I’ll be in this post-surgical wrap and on crutches until my follow up appointment on March 2nd. More than likely the doc will take out the stitches then and put me in a boot (best case scenario). I should be walking in that boot for a few weeks before moving to normal shoe walking. However it will probably be some time before I do anything dynamic. I imagine I’ll be doing physical therapy a few times a week until we leave for the deployment.

Speaking of, the doc doesn’t see a reason for this to delay my deployment. I won’t be in as good of shape as I’d like to be, but you gotta make do with what you got.

Here you can see where the ridiculously large screw head was protruding out the side of my foot.

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