The Other Me
‘The Broken Road’ vi. Six weeks after the surgery, more x-rays were taken, which determined that everything had healed as it should. The tingling was gone, but the jabs of pain remained, and the foot was still numb. The hair on the right foot, as well as the toenails, grew quicker than on the left foot, and whenever I put the foot down, it immediately turned red. The surgeon brought in a nerve specialist, who said if I had any feeling – which I did, as slight as it was – then it would recover. They estimated about eleven months. But I was now diagnosed with something called ‘Complex Regional…
The Other Me
‘The Broken Road’ v. The anaesthesiologist told me they’d be using ketamine as one of the painkillers, and warned me not to worry if I woke up after the surgery and had hallucinations, like seeing grass on the floor of my ward, or thinking people were talking to me. When I woke, though, sometime in the late afternoon, the first thing I noticed was the lightness in my right leg. The x-fix was gone. They told me the bones had aligned perfectly, they’d taken a bone graft to help with the healing, and inserted two plates. I now wore a half cast, with bandaging wrapped around it to hold it…