Bummer
Wish you enough cast days to keep current toe count and enough after cast Wednesdays to get you running well again...

>Since August I have had a wound on the bottom of my right foot. By the time they got the blood flow in my right leg corrected it was the middle of October and I left the hospital with erroneously/incomplete written instructions which made no allowance for the wound but only for the procedure to clean out my arteries. The instructions called for me to walk as soon as possible and try to increase the distance walked each day. I followed the instructions. On the 20th of October I went to a wound specialist who informed me that the directions I was following had caused severe damage to the wound and that gangrene and amputation was possible. On the 25th of October I went back in the hospital and they cut out all of the dead tissue. The news was good - no bone, tendon or nerve damage but a hole 3cm X 3.5cm by 2.7cm deep. They released me from the hospital on 29 October with my right foot in a bandage. On the 3rd of November I returned to the wound specialist who "debrided" (scraped out - blood and flesh flying all over the place) and put on a bandage and cast on my right foot/leg. Since then I have been under orders not to even rest the bottom of my foot on anything. Every Wednesday I have to go for "cast day" and have the cast cut off, the wound debrided until it bleeds, bandaged and get a new cast. The wound is still 3cm X 3.5cm but as of yesterday's "cast day" but it is only .5cm deep. Two weeks ago they started using Endform pads from New Zealand, made from the forestomach of sheep, which is supposed to prevent the need for skin grafting so I think the goal is in sight.