Introduction to this blog

There are hundreds of bunion recovery blogs out there and this is not another recovery diary.  Not to say there's anything wrong with them. They're great! They really helped me in deciding to have surgery after 15 years of thinking about it. And they helped me get rid of a rude orthopaedic surgeon who said it was "inappropriate" for me to read such things.

This is a tip blog, a few of the ways I coped, mainly in the important recovery period. This is the time that health care providers don't cover in as much detail as you might like. 

Everyone's experience will be different. Depends on your exact foot problem, type of surgery, overall health and fitness beforehand and what advice you are given by your doctor about the post surgical recovery period.

Here's a before and Day 7 photo.

Just to put what follows into context, I had a Scarf and Akin procedure under local anaesthesia and intravenous sedation. It was a day surgery procedure. I could weight-bear in the special boot after 90 minutes. I am 60+ year old! female, reasonably fit, a little overweight, with chronic lung disease. I've had bunions since I was in my 30s, thanks to my grandmother, and both parents. So I never had a chance to damage my feet with poor fitting shoes.