Apparently I have broken my foot in two places. Both are on the 5th metatarsal. The original Jones fracture has opened up and looks like a wedge has been taken out. Closer to the toe, the bone appears shredded and the docs suspect another break there. They plan to take a bone graft from the knee to fill the bored out bone ( this was from when they tried to remove the screw, it broke, and they had to bore it out) and then put in a plate. I just hope the plate is less painful than the screw😟

I guess my message is that hardware removal is not always a good thing. We live and learn.

Six weeks past my screw removal and things suck. I am still in a cast with instructions to be out of the cast as tolerated. I haven't really been able to tolerate it. When I go castless, I usually regret it the next day. Saturday, the foot hurt quite a bit. I did my normal grocery thing with a bit more added in because of Thanksgiving coming. Halfway thru Costco, it hurt pretty badly. I soldiered on, but was in  a lot of pain that evening. At the moment, it's about a 5. That's worse that right after surgery!

Tomorrow is my 6 week x-ray and I hope they say it is healing. I'm pretty scared Things are not going well. I keep hearing the nurse practitioner saying, "If we'd had your ok, we would have done a bone graft. Of course, now I worry about that.

Anyway, pain is a 5, swelling on top by toes is about a 4.