Well, what a surprise. Here I thought the guy was going to shave down the bone, and that's not exactly what happened.

We get there, Alan goes in, I wait in the waiting place (making friends with everyone else waiting there also).

After a few hours, the doctor calls me over and I immediately say "Oh you shaved down his bone, right?" and he goes 'No I didnt'" I said 'what do you mean, Alan told me that's what you were going to do and also take something out of his calf".

The doctor said "No, that's not what I told Alan, I said I would look at his ulcer and ultimately determine if I would or wouldn't shave down the bone. Did you know that he had a hole that went straight through to his seismoid??"

I said 'well, I saw the little hole, but I didn't know about the seisemoid".

He then asked me if there had been any redness, swelling, pus, ANYTHING??? and I said "absolutely not". Alan has been complaining that it's been hurting him lately.

He said "well, I debrided it and took care of it, it has to heal, he has to be off his foot for one week, then bring him in and bring his cam walker too"

Then he told me what he did with the calf muscle thing.

He said (can't remember all of it), but he extended something, and he said and I got this part right.

He said: 'I've discovered in many cases like your husband that if I extend (whatever thing he extended), that Alan's pressure would be oft loaded (or something to that effect), the short version is he did something to Alan's muscle in the calf and he feels that when Alan's ulcer heals, that when Alan starts to walk again, he will walk completely differently and it won't cause the ulcer to re-ocurr. I got that part right because that's what I said back to him and he said "correct".

He said 'we'll see later on if something has to be done with this bone, but honestly, I don't think it will, because I've seen a great many people have no more problems once I lengthened (whatever thing he lengthened).

He also mentioned wound care. I said 'you know he's not a diabetic, and I do take care of him". He said "yeah, I know, very good". He said "bring him in next week and we'll decide from there. Bring in the boot".

So I said "So if you don't like the cam walker, you'll give him a different one?" and he said 'correct".

So the operation went off without a hitch. I found him in recovery eating chocolate cookies, and croissants.

Everything is run like clockwork at Beth Israel. Very good teamwork.

Alan is in a foot cast almost up to his knee. Just his toes peek out.

Now getting this man on crutches and onto the access-a-ride is a completely different. matter. His balance (when he walks he's fine), but put him on crutches and forget about it.

And getting him up the porch to our apartment, well I thought he would fall on me. Then his pants started to fall down and he's screaming "My pants are falling down", and I started laughing my head off. He started laughing too. Thank god we can still laugh at stuff.

He just sat down on the porch (after pulling up his pants), and he shimmied up the front steps, then hopped up and I got the wheelchair. Where he is right now.

I do not look forward to bed time. This shall be very interesting.

So just wanted to update.