Originally Posted by bigss75

You plain on gaining weight or mantaining?

Originally Posted by Big G

Update (3 years later!)...

I continued working out and eating well through May 2009, but one morning I woke to find what felt like a stone inside my foot, and every time I would take a step it would make a strange snapping sensation. I concluded that I had inadvertently injured myself, so I stopped all leg workouts, hoping it would heal. It didn't!

By October 2009 I had seen my doctor, a physical therapist, foot doctor, & was finally referred to a surgeon! =( The diagnosis was a Morton's Nueroma (an inflamed nerve between two toe bones, and it would need to be cut out). I would lose the feeling in two toes but it would fix the (extremely) aggravating clicking & aching.

Surgery was December 2009, and it was a disaster!!

Twelve weeks later I was in more pain than ever, and the incessant clicking inside my foot was still there. I returned to the surgeon. He agreed he'd "missed it" but, in a bizarre attempt to apparently comfort me, he told me he had cut a "sizable section of tissue" out of my foot. For an additional $3,000 he would be happy to try again.

I went nuts! I threatened to sue and, shortly thereafter, received an offer in the mail offering to refund my $3,000 deductible if I waived all liability. Needing the $3k for another surgery (by another surgeon!) I reluctantly agreed.

The next surgery was in May 2010. I had been limping for a year by this point.

This surgeon (Dr.Moeller: Columbus,OH) found, and I quote, "a foreign mass the size of your pinky finger, in a hotdog-sized sack of water, with 12-inch tentacles wrapped entirely around the inside of the foot."

WTF!!?

The prior surgeon had apparently removed a tendon from my foot in an effort to make room for the foreign mass. Dr Moeller told me there was no possible way he could not have seen it. It was the largest mass she had ever removed from someone's foot, and she had keep me under for 3x the usual time in order to remove the multiple tentacles.

Crutches, physical therapy & limping continue for the next six months, by which time my hip had rotated, seized, & hurt all day every day. More physical therapy for my hip followed.

So here I am... 18 month's past the second surgery, and I finally have the go-ahead to return to the gym.

I've lost 10lb and my body fat has increased to around 15%. My hip still aches and it makes loud snapping noises from time to time. But apparently that's not necessarily a bad thing (although it doesn't sound good to me!).

Anyhoo... Today was my first day back in the gym & it was AWESOME!!

I'm starting a "Big G 3.0" log to document my journey from 187lb & 15%bf, to 175 & 10%bf, then the slow & steady climb to (hopefully) the 200lb goal I never achieved.

Wish me luck!

Originally Posted by colochine

GL!! what was the thing removed from the second surgery?