Hey thanks for the response. Surgeries went well. The damage to my ankle was due to instability from the ligaments being torn and not healing properly so,there was no way around avoiding going under the knife. I just got my cast off my left ankle last week and moving around is slow. Sore ankles combined with the double whammy of gout attacks in my toe and an ache in my knee. Hopefully a few more weeks and I will stabalize.