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Hi everyone!

I found out Thursday that I must have a surgery on my right foot! What I thought was an arthritic big toe 'knuckle', turned out to be a big bone spur. So big, that it's pushed a major bone in the top of my foot out of place!! Podiatric surgeon says I have no option - the spur MUST be removed. On a normal person he'd also re-position the big bone, but since my arms won't support me in crutches (or a walker, or a cane... shoot, we all know we couldn't even HOP!) for the 3 month recovery, he won't do that part. Just grind down the bone spur and clean out the area.





Fortunately, there's no arthritis in the joint (see the nice clean spaces between each toe bone). He was expecting it to be much worse than it is.

Thought this might be something to consider if a TOS surgery is in your future. Not being able to support ones' body weight affects more than just getting up off the floor or pulling yourself out of the pool.

Anne