So after seeing him literally twice a week the first two weeks after surgery, I made it through my doctor's ENTIRE vacation without any problems. My visits though literally started and ended his vaca. I was his last appointment before leaving for vacation and his first appointment after his return. I guarantee I was happier to be there bright and early the Monday after his vaca than he was. I was so anxious to have my cast removed I could hardly contain myself.
While I had only been in this specific cast for 10 days, it had been three weeks of casting and I was ready for some freedom!
It was time to say goodbye to my pretty pink cast.
The cast came off with very little drama. Stitch removal was a bit intense. I guess cuz an ankle is so wrinkly and creased some if the stitches were pretty deep in there. I toughed it out because nothing was dampening my joy on cast removal day!
He inspected my incision, gave it a thumbs up, slapped some tape stitches over it, and sent me on my way with these instructions:
*3 days... before getting it wet. Then just let tape stitches come off naturally.
*Non-weight bearing for one more week. Then start bearing weight with crutches.
*A week after that start PT.
*A week after starting PT start taking out the wedges once every two weeks.
*Come back in 6 weeks.
That was it! I practically FLOATED out of his office I was so excited!
