Here’s what has happened after a day since my surgery.
I couldn't sleep well again, but that has to do with the fact that if I move right now it's hell. Not in my foot, but in my lower back where I received the leads. If that pain was gone I think I would've actually slept normal.
The pain in my back is similar to piriformis muscle pain I used to suffer from. It felt like someone had taken a bat to my back repeatedly. I had a steroid injection for that which cleared that up a year ago.
As I got up from bed I made sure that when I took my first step out of bed, since that's the worst one of the day, to focus on my foot and how it felt. It was still numb. After I planted my foot on the floor and as I raised my body up I immediately had to go back down onto the bed because of the back pain. I tried again, got back up, stayed up and stepped and I didn't have the eggshell feeling.
My "walking on eggshells" feeling is not like the saying. Since the accident it always feels like I'm walking on a constant bed of an infinite amount of small eggshell bits (the size of the pieces that fall into your bowl after cracking open an egg while preparing scrambled eggs in the morning and you decide to just leave them there and not dig them out, because it's not worth it.) However, the eggshell bits litter the ground and feel more like broken glass that I only feel in my right foot with every step.
That pain was near gone and much, much duller. That's a win.
I'm going to rest now.
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