Born with Wonky Feet

I went to see a surgeon (I will call him Mr. R) at Chelsea & Westminster on Monday and it  didn't go quite as planned. I went to ask about the possibility of an amputation and he said that he would never offer to amputate before preforming another surgery first. He has offered another operation which I have heard about and my wife has read a little into. It is called a triple arthrodesis which is where they fuse 3 joints in the hind of the foot, being the  talocalcaneal, talonavicular, and calcaneocuboid joints . He said that he would also break the heel and the front of the foot and put them in a correct position and then he would straighten and fix the hind of the foot in place with metal pins and plates. He also added that because of how complex my feet are it will be harder to treat.  The recovery is at least a year, with 3 months no weight bearing, and he would only do one foot at a time which means it would be at least 2 years of recovery, and that i...

So a couple of updates. First off I have rearranged my Arthroscopy, this is so that when I go to see a surgeon about an amputation I am not in casts so that he can examine my feet properly otherwise I feel it will be a waste of time. Secondly today I told my family about my choice of an amputation, or rather my wife dropped me in it (although this did make things easier) and in some ways it went better than I had expected but in other ways it went just as I thought it would. We have had a very long talk about it all and I hope it has helped them to understand. But I know that they will be there for me whatever I choose. I think it was more of a shock to them as I hide a lot of my pain from them and I sugar coat my problems, so it probably seemed like a bad decision at first. It is nice that they know now, it's one less thing I have to stress about and it means that they can get to grips with it sooner, just as I have. I just don't want to waste more of my life than I have ...