Day 12 - Post #10 - The second Foot & Ankle surgery to the right foot

Devin was scheduled for a 12 hour surgery to his right foot. This foot was just operated on 3 days ago and the surgeons were going in to finishing putting what was left of his foot and ankle back together again. Based on the information that we got concerning missing cartilage and bone fragment, it has been difficult to feel very optimistic about his chances for a recovery that would enable him to compete in track as he had done previously. Osteochondritis is most certainly going to occur, and walking pain free let alone running are statistically very unlikely.

The surgery today seemed to go well. I don't have all the details, but it only lasted half of the expected duration. The surgeon was able to determine why Devin had such severe pain when the general surgeon team made its daily rounds and insisted on grabbing Devins big toe... The extensor hallucis longus tendon was misaligned due to the trauma and was actually stuffed inside of the joint between the talus and calcaneus bones - very painful...