Some Better, Some Worse in Hawk's Recovery
Nov. 9th, 2025 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerLate last week Hawk completed three weeks of recovery since her foot surgery on Oct 17. It has been a mixture of good news and bad. After she got the cast removed and fitted with a boot instead a week and a half ago she enjoyed a big surge in mobility. She went from leaving the house only twice in two weeks— and one of those times was to go to her followup appointment— to joining me in going out for a meal or a small shopping errand several times the next week. That was the good news.
The bad news was that her foot started hurting more. Was it just that she'd walked on it too much? The burning sensation of pain, versus a dull aching feeling, suggested otherwise. But either way she called for an urgent appointment at the clinic to have a doctor check it out... but NOT doctor #2 who'd removed the stitches on the previous visit, as he'd been rude and skeptical when she explained her medical history. (Male readers may not understand this, but doctors not believing what women patients tell them is an endemic problem in medicine. Ask any woman who's ever had a serious health problem.)
The 3rd doctor, one she found much more trustworthy, cleaned her wound and quietly implied that doctor #2 removed the stitches a week too soon. Then her original doctor reviewed the 3rd doctor's notes and photographs and quietly implied that the incision area is actually infected. Now she's on antibiotics, which are helping ameliorate the pain. Partly.
Hawk continues to play through the pain. We went out together both days this weekend. Saturday we dined out for lunch then visited friends for games. Today we grabbed lunch out, then did a bit of shopping, then had friends over for dinner and games at our house in the evening. Toward the end of each day, though, she needed to call it quits after several hours, take pain pills, and lay down with her foot elevated. But Hawk's determined not to let the injury, or the recovery, turn her into a perch potato.
The bad news was that her foot started hurting more. Was it just that she'd walked on it too much? The burning sensation of pain, versus a dull aching feeling, suggested otherwise. But either way she called for an urgent appointment at the clinic to have a doctor check it out... but NOT doctor #2 who'd removed the stitches on the previous visit, as he'd been rude and skeptical when she explained her medical history. (Male readers may not understand this, but doctors not believing what women patients tell them is an endemic problem in medicine. Ask any woman who's ever had a serious health problem.)
The 3rd doctor, one she found much more trustworthy, cleaned her wound and quietly implied that doctor #2 removed the stitches a week too soon. Then her original doctor reviewed the 3rd doctor's notes and photographs and quietly implied that the incision area is actually infected. Now she's on antibiotics, which are helping ameliorate the pain. Partly.
Hawk continues to play through the pain. We went out together both days this weekend. Saturday we dined out for lunch then visited friends for games. Today we grabbed lunch out, then did a bit of shopping, then had friends over for dinner and games at our house in the evening. Toward the end of each day, though, she needed to call it quits after several hours, take pain pills, and lay down with her foot elevated. But Hawk's determined not to let the injury, or the recovery, turn her into a perch potato.
