Cast off - on to the boot!
Today the cast came off. I’ve been dreaming since the surgery - the cast comes off and I will be able to walk in the boot like before the surgery. WRONG! The Doctor put the boot on - I stepped down on my foot and I thought I was going to scream. He gave me flex exercises to do at least three times a day. I can do partial weight bearing as tolerated. Today that means about five steps. After I got home I tried it again and I can walk a little around the house. I did make it up the four steps to get into the house. I thought getting the cast off was the end of the tunnel - now I see that it’s not. I still have a long way to go. I don’t know about you all - but that was one ugly leg that came out of that cast. It looked like one of the before commercials for a moisturizing lotion.
Happy Healing!
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Wow! I just got my cast off today and you could not have described everything any better. I was so upset that I could not walk any better than I could in the boot I cried! (my girlfiriend said my expectations were too high!) The doctor just put me in a half boot. What is yours–a half or a full boot? I don’t like where this one rides on my calf. that hurts almost as much as my heel. I did notice that the longer I walked the less it hurt. Good luck. We’ll get there. It is just going to be slow going.
I have both the short boot and the tall boot (over the past two years I have one of everything). When they put me in the short one it rubbed my skin off right at the top of the boot so the tall one is more comfortable. I know I was expecting too much today but if you don’t have hope recovery seems longer. I finally gave up tonight and took the boot off. Scaled my leg in the bath and have now resigned myself to bed for the evening watching the same TV I’ve watched for the last six weeks. I can’t believe I’m actually watching The Housewifes of Orange County - I must be close to brain dead!