The wound care doctor has managed finally to get my surgical wound on my outer left ankle to heal to the point where I can get it wet, wear socks, and do my normal stuff without help from my wife (she is rejoicing, yes). He went to using a "long acting" collagen with a different dressing. I still had to keep it dry during showers, but I didn't need a re-wrap afterwards. I'm still experiencing pain to the touch above it - something I will explain to my Pain Management doctor when I see him this morning - and I'm still taking Methadone 3 times a day to keep it and all of the other pain under control, be it from the fractures or from other arthritic conditions. Two more appointments and I should be done with the wound care.
That allows me to approach other problems not caused by the fall. First up will be my left knee, which I screwed up badly in a bicycle accident in the early 80s. I won't bore you with the details - suffice it to say that I had the knee scoped back when arthroscopic surgery was still relatively new, and the doctor who performed it was not much of a specialist. I've got arthritis, bone spurs, damage behind the patella, and other aches & pains that I've lived with since the operation. To this day I can't kneel, even with a pillow. I'd say that makes it an extremely good candidate for surgery.
Even that won't be the end of it. I've got arthritis in my right knee with bone-on-bone on the medial side, and I can't lean or kneel on it either. I need to fix this, get the rest of the hardware implants removed from my right foot, and see if something can be done about the arthritic symptoms I've had in the lower spinal vertebrae.
Next update will hopefully be a continuation of what happened to get my ankles into the shape they're in right now. We shall see.
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