After announcing my 2 new recovery milestones (single-leg heel raises and real bike rides) earlier this week, I don’t have much news to report. Sometimes, though, no news is good news. This week has been rather busy for me and I haven’t been as disciplined about doing my in-home PT. My single leg heel raises [...]
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This is just a short inter-week (weeks 14-15) post. Today I experienced 2 new and significant (to me) milestones: 1) I took my first bike ride–just a short one (1.5 miles) around my neighborhood, to prove the concept (that I’m ready for this), and 2) I’ve begun doing single heel raises on my injured foot [...]
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This past week I took my first plane trip since my ATR. My family flew to Colorado and stayed in Boulder to visit relatives. While there we hiked the Flatirons (part of the foothills) and also went to Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) at Estes Park. For 3 consecutive days, I hiked 3+ miles on [...]
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I’ll try to keep this post relatively short. Sports are still a way off for me, but otherwise life is getting back closer to normal–which is good. My in-office PT has gotten much more aggressive with cycling to warm-up, dynamic walking exercises that emphasize balance in motion, heel raises, runner’s stretches, lunge walking, and partial [...]
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Today I had my 12-week post-op visit with my OS. He examined my Achilles’ tendon and said it was “rock solid“!, and given his intonation I took this to be a good thing. My recovery is going well, but not perfect and I had a number of questions for him and he answered them all [...]
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