On Wednesday I spoke to my PT about driving and the need to press down on my clutch foot. He told me to practice for a few days just pumping the clutch 20-30 times and see how things feel. Today, I took my first drive since my injury. Everything went well but I did notice [...]
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Add me to the club of those that went into 2 shoes today (see photo below). I was expecting a little bit more ceremony from my PT but all he said was to put some shoes on and walk around for a bit. I was then expecting him to tell me to get back in the [...]
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After a great swim last night, I was feeling pretty good about my foot this morning until I looked over the notes from my surgeon for week six.
So I’ve still got about 15 degrees to go before my ROM matches that of my right foot and I’ve been told that I should wait another two weeks [...]
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Best of luck to you and hopefully next year I will be able to join you. I’m predicting that I will be in a grumpy mood this Sunday knowing what I would have been doing, at least the forecast is calling for a sunny Seattle day.
Stay safe and run well!
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I’m finally done with all the casts and into the boot. I was very glad to be able to give my foot a good soak in the bath. So from there I’m to spend the next two weeks PWB in the boot and then after that ditch the crutches and be full weight bearing in [...]
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I saw this in our local paper the other day and thought that I would pass it along given that I have read some discussions about driving in ‘the boot’.
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/east_king/red/news/56609102.html
I’ll update the comments if I hear any more about what action is being taken regarding how ‘the boot’ contributed to the incident.
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Here is my third and final cast, it is nice to finally see my toes again after they were pointed down for so long. The surgeon is telling me to bring the boot to my next session and only one more week of couch time before I can start some PT. No pain, very little swelling but I’m [...]
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So I went offline last week as I had family visiting from Australia. We had a great week and I have my knee scooter (see picture below) to thank. I would suggest that anyone who needs to be on crutches for more than a week pick up one of these beauties. Luckily the rental cost [...]
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