I was 29 years old at the time of fusion. I had damage done to th
big toe while playing basketball 5 years prior. The damage never go
repaired which led to large bone spurs and the toe being extremel
painful and immoble. It was scary to learn that fusion was my onl
option. The doctor said that mine was the worst she had ever see
(and i was the youngest).
The surgery was performed exactly 14 months ago. I can honestly sa
it was the one of the best decisions i've ever made in my life!
was on crutches for 2 weeks, walking in a boot for another 6 weeks
and back in my shoes a total of 2 months after surgery. I had t
take it easy for another month after that, but overall the proces
wasn't bad
There is absolutely nothing that I can't do that i could do before th
surgery. I run, play basketball, bike, etc... I find myself muc
more active than before, now that i don't have pain to worry about.
I don't limp, or have to wear any different footwear which the
sometimes tell you on medical websites.
At first, it certainly feels a little different walking with a fuse
toe. I got used to it very quickly. My gait is actually better tha
before, because i was compensating for the painful toe. No mor
mornings waking up with an aching toe. Usually i completely forget
even had the surgery
If you have any more questions about the process, i'll be glad t
answer

Gary Z wrote:
was all done in OR, with african american surgeons and techs .(Sorry I dont trust em')Also
at VetHosp. Here is a post I wrote earlier, tell me what you think please.

I am going back to the Richmond VA hospital for my third surgery for a bunionectomy.
Shopuld I be looking for a lawyer? I had a hammertoe straightened also.Original surgery on
1-27. Thwo screws and pin in second toe with stitches across top of 2nd toe and three inch
scar running along top left side of right foot. Was called in again that week for another
surgery!Large toe wasnt doing right. They stretched on it making a large "V" and inserted
a wire into big toe. Now MY two toes are making a "peace sign".They used to be aligned,
but I had large bunion. I was told that a screw wuld bring it into line and correct the
formation of corns on 2nd toe.(Hammering against it) ANYWAY, Im scheduled for surgery on
the 22nd of Feb. The "V" is not acceptable.I told them that, the day they did it, but they
said"OH when we take the wire out, it will be straight. Are these people
incompetent?Should I be scared?I wanna see my civilian doc, but he cant see me before the
22nd, and what if the surgery IS neccesary.(I dont doubt that it is NOW)
Can a doctor out there let me know something? ALso I have had locals in the past, because
I dont trust them, they wanna knock me out this time. ANother thing, The entire OR staff
was BLACK. This is no time for affirmative actionb clowning around. I think one of the
surgeons was mad at me cause I took aspirin(Nobody told me not to, I had a migraine that
night)SO he cursed at me during the surgery. I asked him to loosen the cuff for just a
second, as I was getting a charlyhorse. He said"Well thats what you get for taking
aspirin", and laughed. Maybe you dont believe blacks can be racists, but if you dont, you
have never lived around them much. Or any big cities.I really dont care about all of that,
but Im trying to think of everything that could have caused a simple bunionectomy to run
into 3 surgerys, and will that be all???Am I gonna lose my foot??
walt

reply to hingerty@verizon.net

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:47:58 GMT, kilgore trout <nospam@eatme.com>
wrote:

Cool! How long before they change your license to "female"? and give
the vagina?

"kilgore trout" <nospam@eatme.com> wrote in message
news:yToJf.45$yw4.17@trnddc05...
I certainly would be concerned if I needed a third surgery for a simple
bunionectomy correction. Some sort of second opinion by an outside doctor is
in order in my mind. As to the racial remarks, I'll not honor those with a
response other than to say I don't think it a factor when dealing with
people of advanced intelligence such as surgeons and nurses.
GaryZ

Gary Z wrote:
correlated with intle, in my experience. Thanks for replying tho, Im trying to get into
see a civilian doc even tho I really dont have the money for it. It seems nothing is too
shoddy for our vets. It gripes the hell outa me as a Viet Vet to be talked to like shit by
some Sikh, or other SubContinenet type who has used affirmative action to get a spot in
Med school that should have gone to a more qualified aMERICANcitizen. It leaves us with an
army of 2nd rate clowns, who practice(I do mean pratice)on Viet era vets. But thanks just
the same.
walt

TheBillRodgers@gimail.com wrote:
would lurk around this type of NG to start arguments. You wont get one form me. I am a
VietNam vet getting shoddy treatment from the Rich VA Vet hosp. I dont have any kind of
license. Im just an agin exhippie, widower with one dead child, another Im trying to put
thru college on the money Imake delivering Pizzas. Y'see were not niggers, so we have
topay our way. We dont get affirm action, Gov loans, etc etc. We are just white
disenfranchised crackers. Descendants of Confederate soldiers. Proud of it.

Hi Walt,,,, You have a great deal of anger to deal with each day,,, do you
not? Our army is not 2d rate as you say. All,,,, everyone is a
volunteer ,,,, not like in your day of Viet and being drafted. It took a
couple of days to whip the hell out of the 3d largest army in the world in
Iraq at the time. I am sorry you have not had a good experience with
Vet.hospitals. A good buddy of mine had the same experience in two of the
major sized ones for vets. Finding a really good doctor for yourself can be
a problem and its talked about all the time in this newsgroup(ASA). It is
time for Walt to have some good luck and I hope you do.
Harv

LOLOL You did not have to tell us the last part. We could of told what you
are from in what you say. Some day when you stop blaming others for your
problems,,,,,, they will become smaller and less important. I too could
not find help with getting my youngest through collage and me with RA and
having to take early retirement from work. It took over 2 years to get any
kind of disability money but she started getting school loans and working
to make it. They can do it if they want it bad enough. She has a doctors
degree now and I am very proud of her. She is a professor at the Univ. of
Leeds, England.
Someday I hope you realize that what is important is not about skin
color or where your from,,,, but how hard your work for what you want in
this world. If other people seem to get a break or two that you do not,,,,
good for them because you have not walked in their shoes and do not know
what they have had to live with.
The wife and I have put four kids through as high as they wanted to go
with education and job training and they all worked while they went to
school. Please do not forget to let your son know how important he is to
you and that you are proud of him for getting more education than you got.
Harv

Harvey R. Stone wrote:
tellers who cant count, or cant be bothered, Doctors who shouldnt be VETS, lawyers who
take bribes, Across the board Blacks commit more crimes, per capita, numerically, any way
you slice it.
Are you using the theory that hard work is always rewarded, and the good always get ahead.
If this were true my wife and daughter would still be alive. MANY TIMES nice guys finish
last. You just pick yerself up and go on. Could you? I hope you never have to find out.

You are misguided my friend. And yes my son is my world. I lost my wife and daughter
several yrs ago. Its just me and him. He's a good boy, and his politics are his own<g>He
probably thinks Im a nut.haha. But seriously its not skin color. My great grandmother was
black. Very few Americans are 100% anything. But can you tell me you will be happy when
Hispanics are 90% of the population? WHn our national lingua is Spanish? Or maybe there is
no white race at all...If you go into a black home(I was a heroin addict for yrs, I know
many)First you see a pic of the Communits Martin L King(Not his real name)There are few
books, and if there are any, they are about sports figures(black)I know I wont change yer
mind. I cant. But I weould like for you to see, that I am a white sepratist. Sepratist is
the operational word. We would like an area of this land where we could go and be left
alone. Do you live in a "black neighborhood"?It always kills me how people say, "Oh you
are so prejudiced, its only skin color"If thats all it was...there would be no problem. It
is an attitude. Rap music.WElfare,crime, crack,bellshaped curve, hitestosterone rates.
These are quantifiable. Orientals are smarter than whites, in genberal, but that doesnt
bother me one iota. Im proud to be white. Is that racist? ANy more tha.."Say it loud..Im
black and IM proud!" Thas OK Huh, BTW was OJ guilty? Ask any black that question. Tell me
about skin color. TaKE care, yer a lucky man, I envy you.

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:16:25 GMT, kilgore trout <nospam@eatme.com>
wrote:

Yes.


I'm not arguing, just asking a question.

Or a "Viet Vet whiner" eh? Honest to god, I wish the cong had shot you
bunch of fucking whining little bitches. No soldier from any war EVER
before, ever cried, pissed, moaned, and bitched like you pack of
Viet-wankers.


Your house will smell better if you bury that dead child.


Pizza delivery? ROTFLMAO! That's one notch below "Shoe Salesman".

Trash is trash, with no color barriers. We'll just call you "white
trash" for now.

Nothing to be proud of, being descended from murdering scumbags.

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 14:43:34 GMT, "Harvey R. Stone" <none@nobody.net>
wrote:

Well not being good enough to practice medicine in the USA is nothing
to be proud of. Maybe if she keeps studying, in 40 or 50 years they'll
let her into the USA again.


you and your expectations.

It seems to me I heard somewhere that kilgore trout wrote in article
<J6FJf.2593$6f2.551@trnddc02>:

Ignore him, Walt. "TheBillRodgers", with a lot of aliases and several
different domains, is a persistent troll in several other newsgroups,
though I'm not aware he's ever been here before. People say he has
occasionally posted something meaningful, but I can't confirm that.
--
Don Kirkman

It was needed at the time. Like anything in life,,,,humans can screw
anything up and now its gone too far.
:-) Do you know how far up tobacco road Toccoa is in North East
Georgia???? That is where I spent my early years. Do not tell me that a
person can not climb out of that kind of early years and make something of
their life without having hate for their fellow man no matter the skin
color. I know you have had some tough breaks in your life. Tomorrow is
not to late to start making things better in your life and let all the hate
flow out the end of your finger tips and away. You have to accept the
mistakes you have made and the things that have happened in your life that
you have no control over. They are done and over with and can not be
changed. Aaaah, but tomorrow,,,,,, you can do something about that for
your sons sake and yours.

It
Thank you,,, life is not easy. There has to come a time in your life when
you make peace with the people and ideas that have harmed you. You and I
are going to die someday and when we meet the Lord,,, we must bring more
than a hate filled life to stay there.

Kilgore Trout,,,, LOLOL One of my favorite authors character.

Harv

On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:34:56 -0800, Don Kirkman <donkirk@covad.net>
wrote:

God, I am such an ASSHOLE sometimes. Sorry, I was off my meds.

Don Kirkman

<LugieBill@gimail.com> wrote in message
news:dogfv1p1nauj2u2vfm7lr88iusa6u4d4nu@4ax.com...
Everyone makes up their own mind with this kind of thing. An asshole you
are not. Blunt,,, to the point at times but its my opinion that we need
more of that in this politically correct world of today.
Harv

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 05:56:03 GMT, "Harvey R. Stone" <none@nobody.net>
wrote:

No Harv, I think I truly am an asshole. I just looked it up in the
dicktionary, and sure enough, my pic was there.
Well back to molesting those young boys that are "sleeping over"
tonight. Mpg in the morning!

Don Kirkman

LOLOLOLOL, You will not change my mind with your humor.
Harv

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 14:19:08 GMT, "Harvey R. Stone" <none@nobody.net>
wrote:

"Humor"??? I'm serious Harv, I really am a grade A asshole. What can I
do to change that tiny peanut-sized lump of turd you call a brain?

TheBilRodgers@gimail.com wrote:
crack about burying my dead child, Im gonna consider that you meant metaphorically. Yes I
try not to dwell on it, but its the kinda thing that just seems to come into your mind at
the oddest times. Shoe Salesman.....haha. I was laid off from Honeywell after 9 yrs. MAde
a good wage, Teamsters Union etc. But y'know...we have two former RNs delivering Pizzas
too. They quit nursing cause they make MORE, and better hours doing the pizza thing. Its
really not that bad. Gives me time to listen to a lotta Podcasts, and novels on disk. I
have a 2004 Prius so gas aint a prob. Hey I used to be a liberal. Voted for Carter.But
wait a minute....how the devil did we get on this??My foot.This is a foot thing and I
didnt mean to get on the race thing. But the fact remains that a pack of affirmative
action knuckleheads butchered my foot.

LOL You win,,,,, your an asshole.
Harv