Rainfire
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ORIGINAL: MissMorrigan Thanks, Holly. I haven't experienced a problem as such with hip/back pain, but I have in my other foot from over compensating when I walk. When they take off the achilles to remove the underlying scar tissue, file down the bony spur that's grown underneath and reattach the tendon, they'll have to keep changing the cast for the duration of the five weeks it'll be on for so that they can slowly lengthen the achilles safely, then it's lots of physio - that's if it's successful, but it's an op that's rarely performed in the UK and I've been told it's a 50/50 risk, but it's one I'm willing to take. If it does go wrong and I am crippled as a result, I'll just get one of those mobility shoppers and have it sooped up, chromed and painted orange... I want to look like a giant mango when out and about! Does one even need a licence for those things? MM, you'll definitely be in my thoughts and prayers, I can understand what you're going through. I had carpal tunnel surgery on both wrists done last year and then they wanted to do an ulnar nerve relocation, where they'd open my elbows in a 6" (or 15 cm) incision, remove the nerve, grind down the bone a little and reattach the nerve in another location, hoping to help restore feeling in the ulnar nerve and lessen the pain. However, they wouldn't give me even 50-50 odds, they couldn't tell me how much relief I would get. So I told them no cutting on me like that (since it would have been major, invasive surgery with a 4-6 month recovery period) since they couldn't even give me odds. Meh, I may still need it in the future but I sure as heck ain't gonna take that big of risk when one of the supposedly best surgeons in the country can't, or won't, give me decent odds of it working. Now about the scooter..... If'n that happens, I want pictures! I wanna see you terrorizing people zipping down the street, making them dodge ya!
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