May 6th 2010 - The first bit of post-op pain

Today was the first day that I began to feel some pain. The neural block typically wears off after the first 24 hours, but I was still pretty numb for a while after that. Slowly I began to get feeling back in my toes, then in my foot, my heel, and now the back of my leg. And I was also trying to slow down on the amount of pain medication I was taking, so I began to feel some slight pain at this point. I switched from Percocet to Vicodin, and was able to keep the pain level tolerable. Sleeping became a little more difficult for me while taking the vicodin. I would fall asleep around 9 or 10, but then wake up around midnight or so. After that, I was basically up every other hour for the rest of the night. As far as my leg was concerned, though, I was doing pretty well. I have not seen the incision or the staples at this point as they are bandaged and re-wrapped in a new fiberglass splint, but I have begun to feel the "pulling" of my skin by the staples. This is not comfortable at all.