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17 days post-op.

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   As a guy recovering from this surgery I am grateful for the state of the world. I am grateful my parents, in-laws, and everyone else in this world has been given a chance to protect themselves from this crazy virus. As an educator I am selfishly grateful that my recovery can continue to happen from my bed or couch, as this has helped me tremendously. That being said I am very sad for my students, I know this is not what they signed up for.  Some, if not most of us thrive in the classroom, this new remote learning model is definitely not for everyone.   Lets get into the surgery stuff now. Like I said, this virus thing timed very well with my recovery. I have had to go into work one day since surgery. That day was one day shy of the one week post-op mark. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. The worst part was any time my ankle wasn't propped up the pain showed up quickly. Now this pain was never more then say a 4, maybe 5 at most. This...
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Events leading to the surgery and the surgery it’s self, plus the first few days post surgery.

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The first time I rolled my ankle was nearly 20 yrs ago while deployed to South Korea as a U.S. Marine. For PT one morning our platoon Sgt. decided on something light for once. We picked teams and played pickup basketball. During the game I drove into the paint, doing the best Jordan impression a 5’11” white kid from Kansas could muster. As I picked up my dribble and tried to put up a layup, boom. My right ankle rolled inward. I heard and felt the pop. I collapsed in a heap with a scream. The pain I felt immediately was some of the worst I’ve ever felt in my life. I would feel this pain so many more times in life, I just didn’t know it yet. The swelling was instant, within minutes I had what looked like a tennis ball trying to push it’s way out of the side of my ankle. Our corpsmen was with me immediately and he got my shoe off and started to render first aid.     Where we were in South Korea at the time the options for advanced medical care were limited to a basic medical ten...
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