Hi everyone, very interesting posts and thanks for all your replies. Thanks for sharing your experiences Eric.

I am now 15 months post op and I thought I would also come on here to discuss my experiences a bit.

The wound on my leg took ages to heal up, over 2 months. During that time I was going back to the hospital 2/3 times a week to have the wound dressed by the nurse, every time the dressing was taken off I was hoping it would look better, but it just was not healing and always looked a real mess. Then all of a sudden it healed up. I had already been doing quite a lot of physio on the recommendation of the surgeon and the PT, building up strength in the leg, and 10 weeks post op I was in the ocean scuba diving with no problems at all.

I have been building the strength in the leg to the point where it is now as strong as it was before. However, I do have a problem to report. The flexor hallucis longus muscle which controls the big toe has seemingly been scarred in the operation and shortened. The result is that I have developed "claw" or "hammer toe" in my big toe - basically the muscles/tendons are too short and the toe is pulled downwards, especailly when my knee is bent. This makes running tough as I dont have the usual push from my toe, and walking uphill is very uncomfortable. I am going to have an operation soon to lengthen the tendon which will put me on crutches for a month or so.

I realise this is a small complication given the issues so many other people have confronted with their treatments, but I was wondering if any other fibula flap patients have experienced this or similar? It would be very interesting to hear.