Recovery on track
It’s been a while since I last put up a post, a combination of being extremely busy at work and recovery from illness that floored me for a couple of weeks. During this period I had my 14 week anniversary since date of surgery, and received some good news when I met my surgeon on 27 March. He was very happy with the flexibility in my foot, and advised that I no longer needed to see him. He said that the physio should start focusing on strength exercises (which he has) and explained that as the tensile strength in the tendon increases the little bit of swelling/lumpiness around the ankle will disappear.
I’ve been going to physio a couple of times a week, and been doing exercises at home although this can be a bit challenging after a long day at work. Went to the gym yesterday, it was great to do some work on the weights (not working out for 3 months has left me even weaker than what I usually am!). The achilles is definitely improving - I can do some limited heel raises on two feet, but not just solely on my injured leg. I can balance on my injured leg for over 20 seconds now, which is another good indicator of my progress (could only do a few seconds when I first started this exercise).
I went into the office all week prior to Easter (it was a 4 day week) and intend to keep this up from now on. My walking is improving, but I still limp if I try to walk at normal speed and stride. I was also advised to do some exercises to increase the strength of my left buttock - apparently that has become a bit lazy! Anyway, am feeling a lot better and happy to be getting back into some “normal” activity like gardening. Slowly but surely that marathon course is getting covered!
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Sounds great! Everything in your left leg needs to be rebut and re-educated, and the uphill trip is slower than the downhill. Keep on keepin’ on!