Post Surgery Foot Care

The day you get your dressings off is a great day- and also kind of weird. You're anxious to get the damn things off your feet but when you do, it's a whole new foot. And you've got a hard layer of excess skin just ready to peel off.

Under that tough, dried up skin is more dead skin, and under that dead skin is fresh new skin. Soft and not at all crunchy. So you think, "hey, I want to maintain this post-surgery awesome skin!"

Not to worry, I've got the answer.

Before you get started lay out your tools:

• 1 pair of socks you don't mind getting waxy
  
• 1 spacer for each foot
• 1 tub of Burt's Bees miracle or hand salve
• 1 tablespoon of baby powder

Clean off each foot and rub the Burt's Bees thoroughly into your skin. Coat the spacers with baby powder, insert them between your big toes, (you want to maintain the surgery, not just the skin) and put on a pair of socks. The socks will keep the salve from rubbing off and when you take 'em off you'll have soft, protected foot skin.

I especially like this because of the smells...beeswax is so homey and sweet, while baby powder is just one of those scents that makes you kind of happy. Unless you've ever had a baby with diarrhea, in which case I'm not sure baby powder would remind you of happy memories.

Next week, Big Bunny shows you how to keep your ears from getting sunburned.