Week 8 - “Graduation Day”

…so my doc said. To 2 shoes. No diploma, but I’ll take it. Unfortunately that’s all I have to say about the milestone.
I actually may use my aircast at times (more so for outdoors) because I was really confident and loving the speed I could get walking normally with it (not that [...]

Week 6 - Nah much…

Well, not much to report. Actually I forgot what week recovery I was in today! I guess that means I’m in the phase called “acceptance”. I’ve abandoned my idea of aggressive recovery based on feedback from others. So thanks again folks - Djcarranza, 2ndtimer, Smoley, for keeping me practical and [...]

Week 5 - Hey, can’t you see I’m walkin’ here!?

I started off the week frustrated about my status, feeling sort of useless and not knowing my next steps in this healing process.  Aside from some general instructions to wiggle my foot in an up and down motion, I got no other instructions for exercises to start building up the strength or flexibility in tendon [...]