Troy - What a horrific story! - should help all of us keep our whining to a minimum. From the sounds of your chronic burning pain, you probably have Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy) - possibly resulting from surgery - an unfortunate and fortunately,uncommon reaction. You might want to read up on it:

http://tinyurl.com/7oygb
http://tinyurl.com/akzdu
http://www.rsds.org/

Kristen

Troy,
You are not alone. My husband, a 45 year old carpenter and otherwise completely healthy man has been dealing with Dupuytrens and Leederhosen (the feet) since he was in his early 20's. He's had hand surgerys and last year we saved up and he had foot surgery, we figured he'd do one foot, let it heal and then in six months do the other foot. The doctor said the fibromas were the biggest he'd ever seen and wondered how my husband functioned. He said the healing would be four to six weeks. After 6 months and a second surgery because he wasn't healing well, my husband was able to walk around without crutches and a pronounced limp but still couldn't wear anything but sandals. The doctor told us he'd work with us to get disability and workmens comp, since Eric works standing for long periods on cement and climbing ladders. When the insurance company asked the doctor if Eric's job worsened his condition (a yes or no question) the doctor wrote, well probably standing and climbing ladders didn't help, but if he sat at a desk he'd have had to had the surgery too. He didn't mention 10 years later than now. So we are trying to recover financially from him being unable to work for 8 months and our doctors apparent need to screw his patients. My husband continues to work but is in the constant pain you describe and scared to death to have another surgery. You are not alone. And although I can't offer you any answers, I can offer support.