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So I had revision surgery 2 1/2 weeks ago to remove simple bone spurs. It was a half-hour, 5-sitch affair that went well... until it didn't.

The incision isn't healing well. my residual phalanges hurt more and more every day. The pain is going up my foot. The phantom pain is off the charts and not letting up - and now it's waking up in my other foot too for reasons unknown.

The surgeon kept telling me it was okay, just wait until it gets better. But it doesn't. And so I saw him again today and now he seems worried too. He says I might have bone infection and he gave me a horse's course of antibiotics.

I know nobody can do anything about any of this - particularly the phantom pain: it's like tinnitus, it's just your thing to deal with. But... well, I'm scared and my family doesn't really understand. And I don't want to bother them with any of this either. I know they mean well, but there's only so many times you want to hear somebody complain about the same thing.

So, that's my outlook for the weekend I guess...