Baby with a broken mommy

Hi everyone,  finally got the cast off this morning after a total of almost 11 weeks in fibreglass including pre-op.  Now I get to deal with the snakeskin that seems to have grown on my leg and especially my heel during that time.  When I got home an hour ago, I took off my boot and had a good look.  Its like having a bad bad sunburn that is peeling but about 5 layers thick.  Gross!!!  It is coming off in sheets and I had to stop myself.  The ortho tech said to soak it and use a lot of moisturizer.  I think I will be shedding for weeks.  Anyway, I am now sitting in my lazy boy with my foot up sans boot.  It is the weirdest feeling since I am moving parts in my foot slowly back and forth that haven’t moved in over 2 months.  Feels really good though.  I am looking forward to my first PT session this coming Monday.  By the way, there were 3 more casualties at the clinic today.  One was another woman with a 7 month old baby, (only two months older than mine when I ruptured)  She will be having surgery tomorrow.  The second one ruptured his exactly the same as mine and had to have surgery the day before his wedding four weeks ago, and the third was a guy in his fifties who ruptured his trying to launch his boat.  If you count the lady who had surgery the same day as me that makes 5 of us at this one clinic.  What a club to join!!  Before I did this I had only heard of one other person who had done it and didn’t think it was very common.  Oh yeah, and at a wedding I went to last month, there were 3 couple at our table, myself and the husbands of both other couples had ruptured their achilles in the past 10 years.  Go figure.  Happy healing everyone, I will keep you posted on my PT next week.

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