upcoming foot reconstruction

Here goes. I am a 52 (almost 53) year old woman who has had pes cavus feet all my life. I first knew they were weird when my friends in junior high used to make fun of them. Junior high is such an evil age- most of us have post traumatic stress disorder from then. Anyway, the right foot has slowly gotten less stable. I finally broke it and had to have surgery last November and it has never been the same. If the walking surface is at all uneven, I run the risk of, at a minimum, rolling my foot out, but usually of falling. It hurts 75% of the time. The whole thing sucks. So, after lots of custom orthotics going way back before the break, a few specialists and some docs who are semi clueless, I have finally decided to get the foot fixed. I saw a doc in Seattle that actually appeared to understand my feet - what a relief! I go in on Jan. 25th to have a CT scan and a consult where we discuss what to do. I'm very scared. I had another surgeon (who I wasn't sure got my feet) discuss lateral calcaneal osteotomy and tendon transfer, but this new guy is talking way more bone cuts and tendon issues and pins. The funny thing is, he made sense.

I probably won't post a lot until I know what will happen and then until the actual surgery - who has time???? I figure once I'm incapacitated and unable to do anything, there will be plenty of time to post. It will give info. to all the people out there like me who have tried hard to find out what this surgery is like and who can't really find anything they understand but blogs.