Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[Chickendoodle]

My 26 year old YD is having bunion surgery on both of her feet on Thursday. She has started writing a blog which I think is pretty darn good so thought I would share

 

http://mytwofeet.weebly.com/

[bluekarin]

My 14 year old daughter had this op last year as her right foot was very bad, as if she had worth anything but sensible Clarkes shoes Her toes were also overlapping. Her op had limited success in that her toes are creeping back to their old places. Something the specialist has never seen before She was due to have her other foot done, but I have said it best to wait until she is a bit older and when her feet have stopped growing.

 

I hope your daughters op goes well. It is very painful afterwards, which I am sure she has found out during her research. As I am paranoid about a certain chronic pain condition, she needs to make sure she gets her foot moving as soon as possible and keep touching it as soon as she can.

[Chickendoodle]

She is actually more excited than nervous now. She says her feet are so very painful now that pain after the surgery might even be better ! Quite surprised that they operated on your daughter at 14 as yd was told she would have to wait until she had stopped growing before they could do anything.

My ED will probably need the same op soon. My feet are fine but my grandmother had awful feet so I suppose that is where the condition came from

[bluekarin]

I think, if my daughters feet weren't hurting her so much, along with the fact she has juvenile arthritis and the way she was walking to compensate for her toes was starting to affect other joints, I think they would have made her wait. We did speak and see the specialist in Southampton hospital for about 3 years.

[patsylabrador]

Despite the subject that is a really nice blog and I like the way your daughter speaks. I have bunions but it's more inconvenient than anything because I can't wear pretty shoes- they're not too bad.

I wish her luck.

[Chickendoodle]

Oh your poor daughter Bluekarin. It seems a silly and obvious thing to say but having good feet is a thing you don't think about. If your feet hurt, everything hurts.

I am very nervous for my yd and keeping everything crossed for Thursday. Hopefully her blog can help someone else in the same position

[UKMARCH]

A good idea I'm sure it will help others as although everyone's experience is different it will definitely help with what to expect when having surgery. I can sympathise and when I was young couldn't understand why my mum was always saying her feet were "giving her one up" and soaking them every night. I also suffer and very nearly went down the surgery route but was unable to proceed on the dates offered as had young children and couldn't afford the recovery time, my surgeon also warned me that being relatively young and active that they would likely come back and be worse due to all the metal work. I'll read all the blogs and digest.

[chickencam]

I wish her well and hope that it improves her quality of life.

 

This is an education to me , I thought that bunions were something that only older people got. Makes me thankful for my odd shaped feet and a little plantar fasciitis

 

Genetics have a lot to answer for