Bunion Surgery

I got my pin out yesterday! It was epically exciting! My foot feels sooo much better! And I took a video of it!

The pin coming out was a bit painful, but nothing near as bad as I was expecting. He had to twist it a lot in order to loosen it. When it came out, it bled a lot, and the doctor said that it was blood from the bone, not from the skin (hence why it was such a dark red). The bleeding stopped eventually, and he put some antibiotic ointment on the pinhole and bandaged it. My foot hurts 200 times less now than it did just 24 hours ago. The pin was pressing on the skin, and my skin was trying to heal around it; it was becoming so that every step was agony.

I still used crutches to get home yesterday, but I don’t really need them now, as long as I stay in my surgical shoe because I can’t put too much weight on that part of my toe yet.

It is such a relief having the pin out, I can’t describe it enough. I am going to make a separate post with before and after photos, but I shall leave you with the video I had my lovely boyfriend take!