Re: ping Anne Carle

On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 16:17:56 -0700, "Kathycarp"
<kathycarp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I noticed in another thread that you do podiatry.

My DIL has a painful bunion (she's only 36). I said to her, "Why don't you
get it operated on?" Her mother said, "Those operations are horrible, you're
laid up for months and they don't work!"

So... since I didn't know anything about them, I shut up.

Can you give me a little bit of background on bunion surgery?

And... everyone, please, I'm simply asking for some input from Anne. DIL
isn't going to have or not have surgery based on this post. K?

Thanks Anne.
As far as I can tell from the docs I do, the surgeries are generally
very sucessful, and recovery time is not long at all. Patients are
usually dismissed in a surgical shoe, partial weight-bearing. I don't
know how long it is before they're back in regular shoe gear, but I
gather it's just a matter of 2-3 weeks. Some patients do have a
tendancy for repeat bunion deformity, but that's not the doctor's
fault, and I've never heard of a repeat surgery years later being
denied.

Hit Google hard...<G>

Anne/OH
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