eyceman’s AchillesBlog

Good morning all,

Today is exactly 20 weeks since that fateful night of basketball and I must say it has been a heckuva ride thus far. I feel extremely blessed to have recovered well to this point and it feels like my tendon is strong and on the right track. I haven’t been able to get into PT for a few weeks, but to be honest, I didn’t feel like I was getting anything more than what I was doing at home already anyways. I do have another appointment scheduled for tomorrow so we will see how that goes. At this point of my recovery I am almost 100% limp free, but it does become more noticeable when my leg gets tired. I’m hoping to be limp free by month 6. I can jog a bit and haven’t pushed myself to go for a run, I have done weighted calf raises, I even done a single calf raise, but told myself there is no need to rush it so I stopped after 10 reps and haven’t done them in a few days. I do still get very brief moments of small pain in my heel, but nothing major and maybe a 1 or 2 on a scale of 10 on the pain meter. I am very excited to be back close to normal and I am still very careful with my Achilles. I think I need to train myself that I don’t need to look down and watch my every step I was walking into a grocery store yesterday and felt a little stretch like maybe I took too long of a stride and there was some pain and it felt weird for a brief moment but then went away. I got home and the little knot that had developed about 12 weeks into my recovery was gone, so I think it was scar tissue that broke apart. My tendon looks much better now

The road hasn’t been easy by a long shot, but it does get better in time. A big part of my recovery has been appreciating the beauty in the journey and asking what is this teaching me and what was the reason for me having to go through this. I believe I am stronger mentally, I am more patient and I wont take anything for granted. I will continue to learn from this and drink in the moment. From injury, to confusion, from cast, to doubt, from boot, to determination, from 2 shoes, to hope…

God bless!

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