Back on track
After 17 weeks of waiting for my wound to completely heal I was switched over to a new surgeon (the ankle and foot specialist who was on maternity leave after my first surgery). It took her one appointment to suggest a second surgery to clean out the scar tissue…do some exploring…and try to find out why I wasn’t healing. I am now just over 4 weeks past that second surgery, and wow…what a different experience it has been. The wound has healed over (although I am still a little cautious as the skin over one section seems to be thin and weak), and I finally got to go back to PT on Friday. I expected to have taken a few giant steps back, but much to my surprise I hadn’t lost any flexibility, and I lost very little strength. I actually found it easier to do some of the exercises because I didn’t have the wound pain stopping me.
Here’s where the mixed emotions part steps in…I am delighted to be back on track, but a bit irked that it took 17 weeks to do something that seemed to put me back on so quickly. I, however, have resigned myself to not looking back. I plan on taking where I am and only thinking ahead.
The second weekend in June is a local 10 mile run/walk. I have always wanted to walk the course, and last year although the physically completing the walk would have been fairly easy last year, I blew it off because I wanted to relax at the end of a long school year. This year I think the challenge is great enough to make the reward enough to go after. I have given myself a month to make the decision. I have gotten back into the gym with some recumbent biking, and work on the cross-trainer. My next goal is the treadmill…one step at a time…literally.
Deanne (aka DREAMS)
