Nov 26 2009
8 weeks much to be thankful for
My 8 weeks post-op happens to fall on thanksgiving today, I feel as though I have much to be thankful for.
First of all, I am thankful for friends on achillesblog.com who have offered their experience and help. It as been very helpful and encouraging. Since my last post, I have moved from partial weight bearing to full weight bearing. It was a big step to be able to throw aside the crutches and limp around with the boot. The only challenge here has been a sore heel after longer walks.
On the physical therapy front, there are the exercises that I’ve been working on:
- Cycling without my boots
- Total gym calf raises (with about 20% of my weight)
- Parallel bar exercises in shoes
- Thera-band exercises for balance on the right foot
Have a wonderful thanksgiving!
4 responses so far
Congratulations on the progress!
My husband [aka: The Injured One] and I are thankful for the medical care that allows treatment of these injuries. We were wondering what in the heck the caveman did who suffered this injury while running from saber tooth tigers — just suffer and hopefully heal naturally? Yikes. We are thankful for insurance that helps pay for this care.
And many thanks for this web site and all who contribute to it with suggestions, stories, links, helpful hints.
And I think I’ll go in and remind The Injured One to give thanks for his caregiver!
My assumption is the Caveman died, because after the injury, the saber-toothed tiger caught him.
Don’t you think?
On that note: Happy Thanksgiving!
Seriously, though, we have much to be thankful for, just in the narrow realm of medicine. We’re all somewhere on the progression line back toward normalcy, and that wouldn’t have been possible, what, 100 years ago?
I agree as well. I am thankful for medical insurance coverage, good doctors and physical therapy. I can’t imagine what people did before PT … did people just end up re-injuring themselves again.
I’m at 8 weeks today and blown away by the progress I made so far.
Congrats on yours!