I am disabled, I am allowed to walk around the house without my aircast boot, but if I go outside for any reason I must wear the boot as it protects my ankles. You see “they” (my case went to the top orthopaedic surgeons in the country, they only really come together for extreme cases our military personnel who had their leg blown half off) who think my autism and sensory disorders somehow forced my body to basically twist out of shape.
The only “fix” is if they break my hips, stick a lot of metal plates and rotate them inwards, then break my ball sockets on my femur, break the femur in 2 places before breaking the femur right by my knee and again rotate inwards and bolt everything down with metal work, they then want to break both my tibia and fibula in 2 places and again rotate inwards with loads of metal bolting everything. They want to rotate everything about 11° each, and with this method I should be able to walk unaided. They would do both my legs at the same time, with my hips (one surgery, the top of my femurs (both legs in one surgery), fewest surgery’s as possible, could take 3 months to complete all the surgery’s, with a total recovery time of 3 years, but would become taller by 4-8 inches. However my hips are not only out of alignment on the Y axis, but also on the z axis by 2° meaning it will be too much of a risk, I can’t point my toes to be directly in front of me, but I can point my toes to about 4 o’clock - 120° and my left leg/toes to about 230°.
I take a lot (high doses) of morphine every 12 hours with a “top up” for when I need to do something (take a bath, shopping or anything that involves my feet and ankles). I can’t “easily” go upstairs, including slight slopes, can’t go up ladders, escalators especially the ones that take the trolley too.
From 2007 until 2019 I had surgery mostly on my right ankle or my left once a year or 18months or so, then covid/brexit and the deep internal bracing seemed to have an affect and I did okay but pain was not reduced. In 2024, I again sprained my left ankle and I knew I broke something. My GP did X-rays but an untrained admin saw my x-ray results and basically deleted it was “I should be in a lot of pain if it was broken, all she had to do was open the file, my right ankle/foot is so painful that if one of my cats hair fell onto my foot, it feels like a red hot scalpel slicing my foot open.
