<div>Hey Brian, thanks.</div>
<div>No idea what they used, they sewed through 4 layers, the tendon, the bit over it (can't remember the danish name) and 2 layers of skin. I could feel them pull both sides as my foot moved when they pulled the lower and my muscle moved when they moved the upper. uncomfortable feeling. It happened about 5 pm Tuesday playing squash I was in the ER and casted up by 7pm. I was shipped to the OR the next day and operated on by 13:00, and recieved a new splint cast. I was home by 18:00. I get another cast tomorrow after the swelling goes down after the op. 3 weeks with pointed foot cast followed by at least 3 with straight foot cast then physio. I am glad I paid my taxes as all this is free :-)
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<div>Thanks for the well wishes. Dorte is driving me to Uni today so I hope not to miss too much. Hurts like a m#therfucker now though after surgery.</div>
<div>Leigh</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:setanta@dspsrv.com">setanta@dspsrv.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:setanta@dspsrv.com">setanta@dspsrv.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> oowowowowoww<br>> Just back, 2 hours in surgery but it took almost 9 hours all told in the<br>> hospital. Local though so I was awake all the time. Weird having them pull
<br>> your tendon and feel your foot move without you doing it!<br>> Should be cool to play next week :-))<br>> Can't drive for 2 months or do any sports for at least 6.<br><br>Hi Leigh,<br>Glad to hear you got it treated acutely (as in immeadiatyl after injury)
<br>as results are massively, massively better then if it is left to heal and<br>treated as a chronic injury. I saw one of these two weeks ago. Lady was 20<br>stone and it had been blown for like two years. We used an artifical
<br>ligment in her case, and she will be in a cast for six weeks.<br><br>Do you know what they used to do your repair? I would guess they did what<br>we call a peel down. Have they given you a cast?<br><br>How did you blow it by the way?
<br>Anyhows.. big get well soon to all of you from all of us.<br><br>B<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>ddo mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ddo@dspsrv.com">ddo@dspsrv.com</a><br><a href="http://www.dspsrv.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ddo">
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