I'm soooo NOT believing this!!!

I went back to the doctor today b/c the walking knob on my second cast was bothering me, the cast was coming unravelled b/c they didn't get all the ends pressed down before it dried, and the cotton around my toe was coming off. (Can you say, rush job?) Anyway, I got Dr. S's nurse this time, not the NP, or the LPN (or whatever you call them). The nurse asked me when I had my surgery and I told her 6/10 and she looked at me funny, and asked, "Why are you still in a cast?". I told her about the bone not growing back correctly, and she pulled up my x-rays. She asked me who I had seen, and I told the NP and that I hadn't seen the DR since surgery. She left the room and came back 20 minutes later.

She had talked with Dr. Syperek and showed him the x-rays (which he had not seen yet!). He said that they showed the bone WAS growing back, but it just wasn't complete. (btw...this is NOT what the NP told me...she said it wasn't growing together like it should be, which made me believe something was going wrong in there.) RN told me he wanted me off the foot completely for 10 more days. I asked her if they should have ever put me in the walking cast to begin with, and she hem-hawed around trying to cover NP's butt, I guess, because she said that it's all a matter of opinion. (HUH??? Shouldn't it be the opinion of the DR, not the NP if there were serious concerns???) She said that the cast didn't do any harm to my foot (but obviously it didn't HELP). And she made sure to tell me that everything is healing like it should, it's just taking me a little longer to get there. So I have another appt on 7/21, and J gets to start working 1/2 time work/home at his busiest time of year. GREAT!!!

I'm just so tired of depending on everyone else. The walking cast at least gave me a little more freedom, and quite honestly I don't know if I'd be this angry if they would have delayed the walking cast in the first place. It's the "going backwards" that has me so frustrated. That, and the fact that they didn't do x-rays before they put on the first cast. It just boggles my mind. I think this all could have been avoided if 1.) they would have let me see the doctor before now, and 2.) if they would have done the x-rays before the first cast so they could have seen that I needed to continue staying off my foot for a while longer. But instead they waited to do x-rays until after I'd been walking on the first cast for 2 weeks and then put me in another cast for another 1/2 week. So now I've been walking on my foot for 2.5 weeks and it's slowed the healing process down.

Sorry for the rant. I'm just mad at this whole situation. I knew this would be a long healing process, but I didn't know it would be so caotic and backwards.