Day 7

I've had a lot of horrible pain in my foot the last couple days.

It will just randomly hurt for an hour or so and usually just once a day. I tried adjusting all my pillows and towels and sweatshirts that I'm using to keep my leg propped up, but nothing seemed to work.

My husband got the idea to put my herbal neck wrap in the freezer and then wrap that around my foot.

That felt amazing!

But the pain would come right back.

I finally realized that the end of the brace was pushing hard into my calf

right above my ankle whenever I had my leg propped up. After enough time

it cut off circulation and caused me great pain. So know I unhook the brace every time I lay down.

It's kind of a annoying to take on and off every time I get up and lay down,

but it definitely feels much better.

I'm not comfortable enough yet to get the brace out from under my leg. So it just sits there. Unstrapped. Under my leg. It would probably feel even better if I could get it out of there,

but my knee feels far too unstable to try to lift it without the brace on.

I have my meds down to 2 tablets every 3 hours and 20 minutes,

but I realized today that I will run out of them by Monday morning.

Two days before my doctor appointment!

I'm not sure what to do because even if I quickly work my way to 4 hours that will only gain me half a day.

I'm just hoping that I can call and get them to write a new script and go pick it up.

My favorite multi-vitamins that I had been taking pre-surgery contain herbs that interact with my medications.

So I just started taking a drug-store version of One-A-Day.

I'm still taking additional C, D and Fish Oil.

They've got to be good for something, right?

Obviously our body needs vitamins. Certain vitamins help certain things.

We know that K is good for the eyes. C is good for almost everything. So I'm pretty sure

that somehing has to be good for healing my leg.  I just don't know what.