I’ve joined the club!
Hello fellow recoverers!
My name’s Louise, I’m 30 years old and I live in Australia. I ruptured my right achilles tendon on January 16 playing netball and had surgery to repair it the next day.
Firstly, I just wanted to thank Dennis for this site and to everyone who has posted on it. I have gathered so much information and so much hope from you all in the past fortnight and I’m incredibly grateful I stumbled across this site.
I’ve been very lucky so far, with little swelling or pain. I haven’t been in a cast or splint, my surgeon prefers to leave the foot bandaged to allow for greater mobility.
I had my first post-op visit to the surgeon this week and he is thrilled with my recovery so far. He told me I should have been moving my foot around more (which they didn’t tell me and anyway, I was too scared to move it at all) and he’s given me some simple stretches to do. Hopefully, I’ll start some light weight bearing in 3 weeks, when I see him again. It all feels very fast, but I’m feeling great and my surgeon hasn’t had a patient re-rupture in his 30 years of practice so I trust him. I have to trust someone, right?
Thanks for reading!