Quote from: Moshek on December 08, 2023, 02:10:34 PMSo it has been 9 hours after your last message!
How is everything now? Are you alive? 
TL;dr: Amazing
UPDATE:
Showed up to the hospital, and met the staff there, Daniela, his assistant, then the anesthetist and Dr. Becker. Whole staff was really kind, relaxed and chatted a bit with all of them one at a time.
I wasnt nervous at all until I was dressed in the hospital gown and walked in the operating room. Then it hit me and I felt kind of emotional and worried. I laid on the operating for a minute and then Dr. Becker walked in while they were giving me anesthesia and held my hand, didn't expect it, but it was a great moment. Great touch as a surgeon and made me feel much calmer and helped me breathe.
Was out like a light and woke up maybe an hour or two later. When I initially woke up, I was groggy as heck. My pain was about a 7. Wasn't pleasant, they couldn't give me pain meds yet because anesthesia had recently been administered. Had to wait about 20 minutes until they gave me some pain killers via some pump system I van control. 5 minutes later the pain began to subside and was gone. I was a bit giddy by the lack of pain and felt great
I saw a diary recently from another Becker patient who was able to lift his legs and move them around immediately post surgery and felt inspired to try and do the same because I felt pain free and confident that the surgery had gone well because of how I felt. It worked and didn't feel pain at all doing it! Felt really excited about this, I made a video, I'll try and figure out how to link it at some point.
Dr. Becker came in later and told me the surgery went great, gave me some details about the nail and some bonemarrow difference in my right leg. And then we went through some light bed stretching. He seemed really pleased by how easily I could do the stretching in the bed. Later he helped me sit up and stand a bit on my own and then gave me crutches to teach me how to walk with them properly, I took a few steps but felt nauseous from the pain meds, so I opted to just sit back down. This is was only maybe an hour post OP I think, hard to keep track of time when on pain meds and a tiny bit groggy.
I felt extremely stable standing without crutches, like I could walk without them, but obviously did not try. Really encouraging to feel that. Weight bearing is a great feeling.
After that the next few hours was so pleasant, talked on whatsapp with some people and just relaxed. Pain was a zero. Did stretching exercises in bed. My right leg clicks sometimes when I do a specific stretch. Dr. Becker told me before hand of this and said it was a good thing. It's absolutely pain free when it happens.
Slept a bit. An hour here and there, I'm a bad sleeper my whole life. Woke up for other reasons, not pain.
Now it's 12 hours post OP. My pain is about a 1. Ate some food recently because I felt too nauseous to eat before. Nurses are really awesome. Incredibly helpful and kind. One even went out to buy me some Coke Zero, because they only had Coke original.
Plan to try and sleep soon. Watched some youtube videos on my laptop while I ate.
So far, my general feeling is relief and I'm really glad I chose to do it with Dr. Becker
