Dec 02 2010
Ouch
After being warned that last week might be painful it actually wasn’t too bad. I have found walking without a crutch quite hard on my hips though, especially as I couldn’t step past the boot with my good foot.
Got to Orthotics today to discover that there’s still no reaction to the Thompson test so Charlie’s put me down to zero degrees and said I should try to manage without the crutches as much as possible. He advised me to be quite ‘aggressive’ as apparently the tendon is strong enough and can take it.
Walking from his office to the entrance of the hospital was slow and quite difficult. I found that I could roll forward slightly which helped the hips, but by the time we were in the car my foot was aching. I have a feeling that this might be the hardest week so far - I haven’t needed to take painkillers for a couple of weeks now but I’ve got them on standby in case 
I’m not back there for a couple of weeks now as he doesn’t think he’ll need to see me. I’m going to try really hard in the meantime to get moving properly.
