So my parents were having the family over Dec 23 for dinner. Everyone came from out of town…except for me because I can’t drive. So I said, “what the heck” and got in the SUV and drove 1 hour to their house. I took off my boot and put on one of my Crock shoes. [...]
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I was able to ween myself off of crutches completely today. I am moving carefully and slowly. My heel is a little sore, but it is nice to be able to carry items with two hands. My toes that were sprained in my fall are starting to heal. They are not as tender. I am [...]
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Day 3 of PWB with crutches. I was able already to move to just 1 crutch. It is actually much easier to move around, but it is much more tiring. My ankle swells but I have been using a lot a special gelpack wrap around my ankle several times each day. Dr. gave me about [...]
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I got my boot today. My cast was removed. Foot horribly dry and stinky leg. My calf muscle is pretty much non existent. I am PWB on two crutches for several weeks…. My Dr. wants me to be FWB in 2 weeks. I should say PWB in a boot without crutches in 2 weeks. [...]
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So after the Dr. confirmed that I sprained my two middle toes, I have had a very dry foot. I used a lot of lotion on my toes (not in the cast) to get the skin from cracking. It was really bad in the creases of my toes , which had cracked and were [...]
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Follow-up 12/4/2017. I telephoned my Dr. today and explained that I knocked my foot. The two middle toes had pretty much gone numb and I could not move them. I also had a bad pain in my calf on the opposite side of here I had surgery. They removed my cast…whew….about an hour of relief, [...]
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Its sad to think that 6 weeks ago I was going to the gym 4 times a week to powerlift. I was benching, at a maximum 265 lbs, curling 90, 175 lbs butterflys, and 200 lbs on the lower back row. It took me at least 16 months to work up to that weight. For [...]
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About an hour ago I was hopping from the couch to my knee scooter and my knee partially missed. My foot in the cast thumped he ground pretty hard right on my exposed toes. They were still numb and a bot of pain shot thru them that radiated for a while…its still radiating. My achilles [...]
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