Achilles Tendon Rupture recovery by Feb 8th, 2009

If you check the Marathon Tracker, you’ll now see at the bottom of the table, the averages for age, days to PWB, days to FWB, and days to 2-shoes for all the AchillesBloggers who have updated their Achilles Profile. Some warnings: these are just numbers from a small sample size. Everyone heals at different rates.. [...]

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After everyone’s feedback and many hours of hard work by my brother, here’s the finished version of the T-shirt design. I think he’s done a fantastic job, and I love the design. I hope you do too.
The design has been sent to the T-shirt print shop, and they are in the process of [...]

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Today hasn’t been a good day for my achilles as my impatience has gotten the best of me, and I am in a little pain. I feel tingling sensation around the region of my achilles where it was repaired, along with periodic pin-prick sensation that comes and goes. Sometimes it happens every few [...]

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My second post-op appointment was today. The nurse took my cast off, and it felt great to let my leg breathe.
I knew that my calf muscle had been atrophying, but I was still surprised to see it so puny. The skin was loose around the muscle! So it looks like I have [...]

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I am able to put a bit of weight on my cast leg when I am standing, but I can’t walk on it yet. The PA told me to limit the weight bearing to about 20-30 lbs.So I got the bathroom scale out, stood on it with the cast leg on the scale and [...]

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