Time flies when you’re having fun!!
So let’s see…I’ve been in the Aircast for 5 weeks…2 weeks 50% WB, and almost 3 weeks FWB. I’m now almost 10 weeks and ditching the Aircast as of today. Slower than many patients but I’m comfortable with the more conservative pace of recovery. Have been doing ROM work for 5 weeks.
So…today…into a shoe. That means I need to take two shoes of each kind on my next trip! No wedges. He said I didn’t need the wedges but if it was uncomfortable I could put one in for awhile. ROM is good, the incision has healed well. (a play on words…achilles “heal” or “heel”?) 
ROM is good. Start physical therapy tomorrow and it’s limited to ROM, more passive resistance for two weeks. After two weeks, start on strength work.
As for activities: I can walk “all I want”. I can keep exercising on the exercise bike but without much resistance (been doing it with the boot). He wants me to wait to get on my road bike for 4 weeks (after 2 weeks of strength work at PT). I can “chip and putt” on the golf course in my shoes. If I want to put my boot on, I could play/practice full swing. Basically my take is that he wants me to have 4 weeks of PT, including 2 weeks of strength work before I do anything that is too strenuous. I asked when I could “jump off a cliff”. He seemed to contemplate that…and what I meant (jumping off a cliff?)…for a second, then I said “kidding”.
So basically in a month I should be able to participate in my regular activities. Yippee!!
I need to race Ross down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon!
Still, based on, say, a 9-month marathon, I’m at mile 6.7.
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My girlfriend thought it was silly.