Das Boot!

About 2 weeks ago, my right foot started to swell as it sometimes does due to an old injury. However, this time around was more painful and my foot swelled twice as much as it did before, so I decided to get it check out at the doctor. The doctor took an x ray of my foot and was a little baffled. He had to get a second opinion and x ray my other foot to see if my left foot was the same! I am so confused by the whole situation until the doctor took me to see my old x rays, from ten years ago, and compare them to the recent ones. The verdict: they were the same. My foot never healed from a fracture ten years ago!
This is what kind of fracture I have:

Pseudo-Jones Fracture

An avulsion fracture of the fifth metatarsal that occurs where a tendon attaches to the bone at this point. When an Pseudo-Jones fracture occurs, the tendon pulls off a tiny fragment of bone from the base of the fifth metatarsal.

In order to fix this problem surgeons have to place a screw in the small bone and attach it back to my fifth metatarsal.

So I am having my surgery in 2 weeks (October 13, 2008). I will be in a cast & boot and on crutches for 6-8 weeks. So please pray for quick healing because I am student teaching at the moment and kind of makes my current money situation even worse! :( Just when I thought the medical bills would end...here come lots more! Right now I am having a very hard time trusting that God will provide for me, I just seem to be getting more depressed about the whole situation.

So, Das Boot is here, I am wearing a foot boot for 2 weeks before my surgery and for many weeks after. Thus this blog is entitled Das Boot.