How and Why this journey began

I am creating this blog to chronicle my entire reconstructive foot surgery experience.  I have already had my left foot operated on and reconstructed in May of 2012 and I wished I had created a blog then, so I am doing that now with this operation on my right foot.

Through out this blog I will post pictures, reference things from my first surgery (compare and contrast), etc.

A little history about why I needed these operations:

I was born with flat feet.  I had terrible inward pronation and had what some Doctor's called a, "negative arch."  This has caused me problems my whole life.  My entire body has been out of balance.  Some Doctors even speculate this has caused my TMJ in my jaw!  I cannot stand for long periods of time with out knee pain setting in, then foot pain, then hip and back pain.  For example, I tend to take long showers ~20 to 30 minutes.  In that time, my knee pain would set in.  Running has been impossible because it just takes a toll on my entire body, knees, feet, hips, back...everything.  When I worked at my retail job, after the first hour and fifteen minutes my arches would start bothering me and this was after the knee pain had already set in.  After each summer (3 total) working there, the pain would get worse and come on quicker than the previous summer so I decided at this point that something had to be done. 

After talking to several doctors, and being told that if I didn't get the surgery on my feet now, I'd be looking at hip replacements when I'm 30, I decided to have the operations (I was 21 when I had my left foot operated on and 22 when I had my right foot operated on).

I am a healthy, female, 22 year old, non-smoker.

Here are some pictures of both my feet pre-op 

Left Foot

Left Foot

Right Foot

Right Foot

My goal is to keep up with this each day or every other day...basically as new developments in my recovery come to light that I feel I should write about in this blog.  So here we go!