Originally Posted by
bigbossman
Me, neither. It was amazing how painful that toe joint was. It was like someone stabbing it with a red-hot knife. For such a small part, it sure was debilitating....
FWIW, the guy that did it was a sports/athlete foot specialist, and he had pretty much perfected the procedure before I came along. Most doctors will tell you to just live with it...... this guy fixed it, and he waiting room reflected his success at making foot issues disappear. The icing on the cake was that his office and home hospital just happened to be 5-10 minutes away from me.
Like in any profession, most are marginally competent and doing as little as possible to get by & make the day's quota, a few stink beyond words, and there is the occasional genius practitioner, whether bike mechanics, doctors, etc. Man, for something as irreversible as joint surgery, you really lucked out finding the right guy. I almost never hear stories like this from joint surgery.
And Kevin, yeah, I'm sure you know now, cellulitis is serious, good luck w/that.