Kristin’s One Footed (Now Two-Footed!) Blog

Hello! Yep, I’ve been in my little world lately..checkin in on the new ruptures but not posting…because same ole, same ole here. I can’t believe I’m at the 10 month mark….seems like long ago in some ways, but just yesterday in other ways. I so don’t miss those crutches and boot and knee walker. At 10 mths I can elliptical and bike like a mad woman…I can walk pretty intensely too…but, I need to progress to jogging some and then work my way up to running. To get back on the tennis courts…I feel like I need to be able to run pretty well. Wound Update - Saw Wound Ctr last week again. Although my wound is officially “closed” (I still won’t get in bathtub, pool or hot tub or spa pedicure at nail place) I still have this scab thing going on. It does gets smaller…and periodically I cut away the scab if it’s been on there a while…but, a new scab comes back…now, I know…we all think that the scab will one day fall off and there will be nice skin….well, hmmm…my scab has been here since wound closed on Oct. 5th…so, nice skin has had a lot of time to form…but nope. I wear normal tennis shoes to the gym, but oftentimes I still wear my backless shoes…doesn’t aggravate the scab as much. HELP PLS - So, for the longest time when I go up in a calf raise with my bad foot I have the weirdest pain in my metatarsel region…it’s like I have a pin in the middle of my foot and it springs back and forth as I go up and down…this hasn’t gotten any better. Someone told me to roll a small ball around my foot in the middle of it to work out the area. I’m wondering…will this ever go away? It borders on painful each time I go up on my toes. I know that the foot hasn’t been worked like normal for mths while I was on crutches, but I thought that by this point all would be better. :)  May all of you new members to the gimpy club hang in there! This will all be behind you before you know it! Nighty Night!