I’ve already gone into some detail about the surgery that Dr. Antero did on my foot, but for the sake of brevity and neatness, I’ve decided to start a new page to talk about my upcoming 3rd surgery, which is necessary because of Dr. Antero’s quackery. So, 11 months after Dr. Antero butchered my foot, my nightmare continues. I hope that everybody who reads this learns from my experience, and stays away from Quacktero!
The reason I need a 3rd surgery is simple: Dr. Antero excessively shortened one of the bones in my foot. I want to make it very clear that Dr. Antero didn’t cut multiple bones in my foot — she cut one bone in my foot, and she messed that up big time. Not only that, but Dr. Antero also didn’t properly place the bone back into its joint (causing poor range of motion), and the scar that she left from her incision was just terrible. The incision scar that my new surgeon left on my foot is almost invisible, but the scar from Dr. Antero’s surgery shows just how incompetent of a surgeon she is. She’s painfully incompetent!
Because the bone in my foot was shortened so much, I had to have a revision surgery to lengthen the bone. It’s worth noting that Dr. Antero shortened the bone in my foot so much that I was only able to have a little more than half of the length that was lost restored in my second surgery. Since I needed a lot of length added to the bone in my foot, my body produced a lot of scar tissue. Additionally, because so much length was added to the bone in my foot, my recovery time was VERY long. As a result, all the scar tissue that built up over several months was not being moved or stretched (since my bone was healing). All that led to the scar tissue not remodeling correctly, thus it got very stiff. Now I need to have another surgery just to remove all that old and stiff scar tissue.
Of course, some of that old scar tissue will be replaced with new scar tissue, but there will be less scar tissue this time, since this new surgery is less aggressive than the previous surgery. Additionally, because my recovery won’t be so long this time, the new scar tissue will be moved and stretched before it can incorrectly remodel. I hope that surgery #3 will be enough to mostly undo Dr. Antero’s quackery from surgery #1.
[UPDATE #1: My 3rd surgery required more than simply removing excess scar tissue. In addition to removing excess scar tissue, I required an EHL tendon imbrication, which was a result of Dr. Antero’s quackery.]
[UPDATE: #2 Dr. Antero’s quackery was so bad, that I required a 4th surgery to fix what she did! Read about my 4th surgery here.]
In summary:
Dr. Antero is a quack, who excessively shortened one of the bones in my foot. Because of that, I had to have the bone lengthened. That caused my body to produce a lot of additional scar tissue, and it caused me to have a very long recovery time. Since my recovery time was so long, all that scar tissue that my body produced remodeled incorrectly, which caused my foot to heal improperly.