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First Blog Post
June 12, 2009 | |
Hi everyone, this is my first blog for anything so bear with me. I am currently two days post operation. I ruptured my achilles over a month ago in the Philippines. When people ask me how I injured it and I respond “dancing”, I get a smiling response saying, “dancing, what kind of dancing?” Well here’s the story, I was in the Philippines celebrating my wife’s 40th birthday and I was trying some old dance moves that I use to do back in high school in the late 80’s a la Bobby Brown, MC Hammer, etc. when all of sudden I felt a wack to the back of my calf, I thought I had backed into a pole of something, but nothing. I was out in the Philippine provinces at the time so an emergnecy room was not an option. It actually took me a while before I finally went to see a doctor in Manila when he confirmed my ruptured achilles and at that time, I was set to fly back to the US within a week so I ended up postposing my surgery until after I arrived LA which is a month after the original injury date. Not sure how this delay will impact my recovery but my surgery went well on Wednesday. I have some pain but it is tolerable and have basically just laid down on the couch with my leg elevated the past couple days. The only time I get up is to go the bathroom. I still have not taken a shower yet, I’ll probably wait another day. Any tips on taking showers would be welcome. I have a bathtub bench and also a plastic sleeve for my leg. One thing that really bothered me last night was my first itch in my soft cast, it freaked me out that I could not scratch it, I got nervous and had a mild anxiety attack. I tried to focus on something else which worked, but I did not like the fact that I was helpless to physically deal with the itch. I’m having my mom bring a hair dryer as I read that blowing cool air into the cast will provide some relief. Anyways, this is my first surgery and first time to wear a cast, but after two days, I’m nervous I may lose it one day knowing that have to be in a cast for at least the next 3-6 weeks if not longer. I have my first post operation appointment next week so we will see how my wound has healed. Thanks inadvance for any recommendations and I look forward to sharing my experiences with all of you.
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Dance moves a la MC Hammer?! Bobbi Brown?!!! Awesome! Can’t Touch This!
Good luck to us all during the recovery.