Sep 29 2009
Injury and diagnosis
I ruptured my achilles tendon playing organized basketball for the first time this year. I was planting to move forward to my zone position at the top left of the key. I felt a pop and after that my right foot felt as though it had a ski boot on it. Went to see the orthopedic physician today and he didn’t even need an MRI to tell me that I needed surgery. God has a funny way of working … somehow he must want me to take a break from a busy work schedule. This pretty much grinds things to a halt … am scared about how long it takes to recover based on what I’ve read on the internet.
3 responses so far
Its crappy but eschao, try to be just insane enough to think of this as a new toy. (Okay maybe I WAS in shock for 6 weeks.)
This is a new (hopefully) adventure if you can look at it that way, you can let it get you down or you can pull new and wonderful revelations about yourself from this. You’ve got a chance to see the world in a slightly different way, use it - especially to get a seat on the subway.
2ndtimer, gerryr, sam66 and ultidad have been excellent read their posts and let them tell you good things as well.- I’d say read mine but I’m so wordy you should wait until after your surgery.
Set yourself some goals. More than likely you’ll be pretty sedentary until your first post-operative appointment. You can wallow or set yourself a goal or two that can be accomplished from your desk or couch. I myself set a goal of finally ripping all of my LPs to MP3 - which translated into finally finishing the computer game STALKER…
That first appointment - especially if its positive - is your license to start being as active as you can handle.
Just remember to keep the blood flowing.
I’m certainly finding it a long process, but depending on your surgeon/physio/age/fitness things might be faster for you.
As assumptiondenied has said above you do need to put a positive spin on this to help you get through it more easily - it’ll take time so you might as well make the best of it. The experience has certainly made me appreciate many things and people more than before.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery,
Sam
Thanks … appreciate the encouragement and perspective on this.