Sorry for the delay in updating the blog. Our family wedding over the weekend was fantastic! By Saturday the steroid medicine began working, I was feeling better and thankfully was able to sing at the wedding as planned. We had a fun time with family and friends from Ft. Wayne. We never did really figure out what I've had an allergic reaction, too. Today was the last day of the medication to stop the reaction and tonight I'm feeling like the swelling & pain is returning on the bottom of my lip. We'll see what tomorrow brings.
We look four "range of motion" measurements of the foot on Monday at physical therapy. One of the four is now in the "normal range," two are pretty close to being normal and one is as far as normal as you can get (will likely always be this way, due to hardware). The pooling of blood has moved to under the big toe now, so it is all black/blue and looks pretty rough. Toe nail polish covers it fairly well, but it doesn't look good without it. The blood could be forming just from increased use and walking.
The Chicago orthopod e-mailed me on Monday and referred me to a shoe place in Chicago, which will likely offer me more shoe choices (wider). I will visit the shop in a little over two weeks. She said that I am walking and exercising more than her! We are looking forward to a follow-up appt. on October 26th. I had students in JA BizTown today, so my foot is pretty tired. I am thinking that I may have the hardware removed right before or after Christmas.
Pray that whatever caused the allergic reaction last week doesn't return ....
je
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