Doctor Visit! 11-7-16

I had a doctors appointment set up for a follow up after surgery and to also start lengthening my right toe! We drove out to his office in San Fernando CA. We got there and walked into the office and met the girls I had been emailing with and talking to over the phone. They are very sweet and nice people! They took me to the back and took X-rays of both of my feet to see how they are doing. Dr. K said that they look great! I then had to pee in a cup for them for a drug test which was supposed to be done before my first surgery but it was forgotten about so I did that! I then went back to a room and sat on the chair. I was lifted up and Dr. K came in and asked how I was doing. Which I have been doing great!! He then took off my ace bandages for both feet threw them out and took off the gauze around my pins on both feet. He looked at both of them and said they look really good. He then wrapped up my left foot with new gauze around the pins and a new ace bandage around my whole foot. Then he gave me an allen wrench and taught me how to turn my fixator! There is an arrow pointing to the inside of my foot he said to go opposite of that and turn to the outside of my foot to lengthen. He told me for the first week of turning I will make 2 quarter turns, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. After the first week I will go to turning one quarter turn a day until I reach the proper length. He said he does this because when he breaks the bone during surgery he actually compresses the bone together to make it "sticky" this is making the bone start healing and building new bone and you can go a little faster in the beginning because of that. After he likes to go slow because that way the bone is building fast enough so that you don't have to wait a long time once you reach the right length for the bone to harden. This way when I reach length I will not have to wait as long for my bone to harden. He gave me the wrench and wrapped up my feet and I set up an appointment with him for 2 weeks later. I start lengthening my left toe on Monday! I can also start getting my right foot wet and my left foot on Monday as well but I have to dry it right away and am not allowed to soak my feet but showering is fine. He also gave me a roll of gauze to change every day or every other day. I have been changing it about every other day. There is only a little bit of fluid on them when I change it, there isn't much ever. He then gave me a prescription for antibiotics in case I get a pin track infection. He said almost everyone gets a pin track infection at some point during this. It happens because you have something going from outside skin to inside and it's just a common thing with that. He said some people get it once every few weeks, some never get it so fingers crossed I never do! However he gave me antibiotics just in case. He said if I see it's infected, which is red, puffy, tender, sore, irritated, and pussy. He said if it happens take the antibiotics. He said if I ever need anything just text him and he will help me out! He's so nice. I'm very happy I chose them!