Posted on July 31st, 2008 by jenny
After hobbling around all day PWB I finally managed to stand with my weight equally on both feet!!! Woohoo!! I am so excited that I treated my 13 year old daughter, who has been helping care for my 11 month old almost exclusively , to a night out at the movies. I haven’t had this [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2008 by jenny
Hi everyone, hope you are all recoverying well. I have been PWB for 6 days and can apply about 50lbs pressure to my foot. The problem is that it feels like my incision site is being rubbed raw. I am still in a fibreglass short leg cast for another three weeks at which time my [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2008 by jenny
Hi again! I started PWB two days ago and I am having a little difficulty. My doctor gave me four weeks to get FWB while still in a short leg fibreglass cast. When I first started it felt as though my cast was too tight on my ankle so that the weight was not on the [...]
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Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by jenny
Hi Everyone! I will be six weeks post-op in two days and am supposed to start PWB on Friday. I am still in full fibreglass and will be for another 4 weeks when I go to the boot. The last few days I have been putting my foot down while I crutch around with no [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2008 by jenny
Hi everyone!
Went to the ambulatory clinic today for my second “adjustment” and they got my foot to 90 degrees. Yahoo!!! I was sitting on the stretcher saying to the cast tech that it didn’t hurt as bad as last week when they got me to 65 degrees. He just smiles. Then as the cast starts [...]
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Posted on July 16th, 2008 by jenny
Hi everyone! All of these reruptures are really freaking me out. I will be 5 weeks post-op of Friday and am only a week shy of some of these “accidents”. My doctor plans on having me in a short leg fibreglass cast until 8 weeks and then the boot for another four so I am [...]
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Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by jenny
Hi everyone, I am almost 3 weeks post-op and had my stitches out and a new cast put on last Thursday (6 days ago). When the cast tech was putting it on she was pulling really hard on it as she wound it around my leg. I thought that was really weird but didn’t say [...]
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Posted on July 1st, 2008 by jenny
I am sooooo bored stiff. I am only two weeks post-op and all of this waiting is driving me batty. Does anyone have any suggestions to pass the time (other than the TV, computer, and books) ?
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