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Old 01-17-2023, 10:50 AM
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We’re you pleased with the results or are you sorry you had the surgery. Any pros or cons or tips on post surgery recovery? Thx.
No one has mentioned this so far.......in times way past, like Greek and Roman days, hammer toes were considered a "mark of royalty". So, for some reason that I have never heard, it must have some advantages. Also, evolutionary biologists somewhere probably have written a paper about it - whether it is an advantage or a disadvantage.
....One of my personal experiences with my hammer toes was in about 4 the grade, I found out that if I put my foot on the base of the kid's desk in front of me - I could make a thumping, "hammering" sound that no one in the class (teacher included) could determine where it was coming from. I thought of it as my personal "superpower". As I got older and wiser (?) I stopped doing that ( at about a sophomore in College).
......One problem as I played baseball or football in high school, was that my hammer toe became "black toe" and there was some pain. It only got black on my right foot and I assumed that was because I was right-handed and my right foot was bigger. It was just a small nuisance, so I never thought about surgery.
........So I will continue to believe that I am ROYALTY and if you are in a local classroom and you hear a THUMP, THUMP ........its probably me.