This sounds like I could have written it for my own situation. Foot pain from heel to my outside toes. My foot feels like dried leather. Like you, the pain from my foot hurts worse than my knee pain. It is swollen around the heel and my toes from the center one to the pinky feel like they are warring with each other. There is a lot of tension in the tarsal area between the heel and the ball of the foot, which also feels like dried up leather. Massage is only a temporary relief, alternating hot and cold packs is only temporary relief.
My surgery was on May 17th, 5 weeks ago.