MelanieC
07-08-2003, 08:02 PM
I guess I won't be able to walk as a form of exercise for a while.
Before my DH came home from Kuwait (5/9) I thought I had a splinter in my foot and I tried to get out. I found nothing and I left a little hole in my foot. It really didn't heal at all, nothing bad but just a hole in my foot. Very tiny, and completely round. As time went on the skin got thicker and as it did it hurt more when I put weight on that spot. Last month when we went to Williamsburg and spent the day at Bush Gardens, by the end of the night my foot hurt. While in the hotel, I picked at it a little and again the built up skin that was growing in that little circle came out. It was caloused like skin. It felt better.
Well this weekend when we went to Boston it hurt a little after walking around and standing most of the night during the fireworks. Saturday we got up and walked MILES! By the middle of our walk it was starting to hurt and by the end of the walk it was hurting REALLY Bad. I was getting cranky, and almost unable to make it. I seriously was ready to catch a cab back to the hotel. DH had to finish the Freedom trail, so I sat at the USS constitution while he and the kids went to Bunker Hill. It felt a little better after I rested, got out of the sun and had another bottle of water. We took a water taxi halfway back (as far as it went). We then walked back to find a restaurant to eat. I wanted Legal Seafoods, but it was a 1 1/2 hour wait, and I was not going to sit outside in the heat. Basically we walked all the way back to our hotel and found a restaurant about 2 1/2 blocks from the hotel. My foot was hurting so bad. It was swollen, inflamed and full of puss. I was able to squeeze it some to relieve the pressure. It started hurting really bad and bled just a little so I stopped.
Sunday we went to Salem and Plymouth Mass, and we walked again. Nothing like on Saturday, but again it hurt at the end of the day. The car ride home yesterday was a relief. When I got home I was able to put peroxide and neosporin on it. Today it looked alot better, but I had a hard time finding a comfortable shoe.
I made a doctors appoint for tonight and thought I was going to have him just look at it. The girl at the front desk was not able to get me in today, but when I told her I could hardly walk and it was an open wound she fit me in.
I felt a little guilty, because it did look much better than this weekend. I thought he was going to laugh at my foot and wonder what I was worried about. Well not only was he not laughing but he squeezed all the puss out, (commenting that there was lots). He ended up shooting the sight with novacaine (OUCH). He then cut into my foot as he squeezed the puss out. The novocaine only lasted a few minutes before I started feeling it again. It was throbing so much by the time he was done. Now I must go get X-rays, and go back next week to see if it has healed. He gave me oral antibiotics. If it doesn't heal I have to go to a specialist who deals with things that don't heal. They have specialists for everything I guess.
If I was in pain prior to going........I am in pain now. I almost fainted as I was making my appointment for next week. The receptionists had to get me a chair and some water. I think it was standing on it and trying to walk that made me wousy! I guess I won't be able to walk for exercise for a little while. I can barely walk across the room right now. Its bandaged up and I am really afraid to take it off!
Well I hope I didn't gross any one out to much. I am bummed that I won't get to walk. I hate stopping, because it always seems hard to get back into the groove. At least It doesn't affect me eating!
Before my DH came home from Kuwait (5/9) I thought I had a splinter in my foot and I tried to get out. I found nothing and I left a little hole in my foot. It really didn't heal at all, nothing bad but just a hole in my foot. Very tiny, and completely round. As time went on the skin got thicker and as it did it hurt more when I put weight on that spot. Last month when we went to Williamsburg and spent the day at Bush Gardens, by the end of the night my foot hurt. While in the hotel, I picked at it a little and again the built up skin that was growing in that little circle came out. It was caloused like skin. It felt better.
Well this weekend when we went to Boston it hurt a little after walking around and standing most of the night during the fireworks. Saturday we got up and walked MILES! By the middle of our walk it was starting to hurt and by the end of the walk it was hurting REALLY Bad. I was getting cranky, and almost unable to make it. I seriously was ready to catch a cab back to the hotel. DH had to finish the Freedom trail, so I sat at the USS constitution while he and the kids went to Bunker Hill. It felt a little better after I rested, got out of the sun and had another bottle of water. We took a water taxi halfway back (as far as it went). We then walked back to find a restaurant to eat. I wanted Legal Seafoods, but it was a 1 1/2 hour wait, and I was not going to sit outside in the heat. Basically we walked all the way back to our hotel and found a restaurant about 2 1/2 blocks from the hotel. My foot was hurting so bad. It was swollen, inflamed and full of puss. I was able to squeeze it some to relieve the pressure. It started hurting really bad and bled just a little so I stopped.
Sunday we went to Salem and Plymouth Mass, and we walked again. Nothing like on Saturday, but again it hurt at the end of the day. The car ride home yesterday was a relief. When I got home I was able to put peroxide and neosporin on it. Today it looked alot better, but I had a hard time finding a comfortable shoe.
I made a doctors appoint for tonight and thought I was going to have him just look at it. The girl at the front desk was not able to get me in today, but when I told her I could hardly walk and it was an open wound she fit me in.
I felt a little guilty, because it did look much better than this weekend. I thought he was going to laugh at my foot and wonder what I was worried about. Well not only was he not laughing but he squeezed all the puss out, (commenting that there was lots). He ended up shooting the sight with novacaine (OUCH). He then cut into my foot as he squeezed the puss out. The novocaine only lasted a few minutes before I started feeling it again. It was throbing so much by the time he was done. Now I must go get X-rays, and go back next week to see if it has healed. He gave me oral antibiotics. If it doesn't heal I have to go to a specialist who deals with things that don't heal. They have specialists for everything I guess.
If I was in pain prior to going........I am in pain now. I almost fainted as I was making my appointment for next week. The receptionists had to get me a chair and some water. I think it was standing on it and trying to walk that made me wousy! I guess I won't be able to walk for exercise for a little while. I can barely walk across the room right now. Its bandaged up and I am really afraid to take it off!
Well I hope I didn't gross any one out to much. I am bummed that I won't get to walk. I hate stopping, because it always seems hard to get back into the groove. At least It doesn't affect me eating!