Sorry it's been so long since I've written. Life gets busy sometimes, I know you understand.
I'm walking without a boot now. Normal shoes. At times everyone forgets I had surgery, but I'm sorry to say that I haven't. Still having a little pain and I don't have all my strength back just yet.
I wasn't able to jump into therapy when I should have. Money's tight as you all know and bills must be paid. My recovery was probably the last thing that I should have put off.
I've been having some pain on the outside of my foot. Painful enough to cause me to limp a little. So I went to physical therapy. Finally.
The therapist was great, she really took her time and made sure to understand every aspect of the surgery. (Make sure you ask for a licensed therapist!!)
She said the pain I was experiencing was most likely tendinitis -- not a bone injury. Te tendons on the outside of my foot are doing more work than they use too (my pre-surgery foot pointed out to the side a bit.)
So I do my exercises every day, ice my foot (like freezing it) twice a day and stay on a ibuprofen regimen. Over the last week the pain has begun to fade. Cool!
The therapy is all done at home for now. I stretch my calf muscle by sitting on the floor and pulling on my foot with a towel. I also do some strengthening by standing flat footed, slowly rising to my tip toes, then going back down. I repeat this over and over until my leg is tired. I have several other exercises as well.
The only time I really notice a strength issue is when I'm climbing stairs. Most people actually climb stairs on their toes (you'll believe me the next time you try it) and I don't have enough strength in my left foot yet. So when I go up stairs it's kind of a tip toes on the right foot, flat foot on the left. But it will get better soon. I'm very confident.
Baseball season has started for my boys and I was able to play catch with them in the back yard. I can't cut the grass yet, but that's a goal. Weird, I'm excited about cutting grass. What kind of meds did they actually give me?
