Recent update
- Overview of my whole experience
- Walking
- Playing Ping Pong. Can i drive yet?
- My first steps! :)
- how do i avoid rupturing my good leg?
- finally PWB and 1 month pregnant
- 8 weeks post-op
- Week 6
- 31 days post-op
- Hello world!
31 days post-op
August 2nd, 2012 by michelle153
Today is the 31st day post-surgery. I suffered a set-back due to an infection and the cut is still healing right now. I would love to start working with the boot now but would love your advice on this matter first. I haven’t gone to see the physio just yet - hopefully this afternoon. It’s difficult to get to where i want because i’m so dependent on my mum to take me around :(my doctor says i no longer need to see him, i guess you could say i’ve been ‘transferred’ to the physio. but of course, he’s there if i need him. at the moment we are just seeing how and when the wound heals before making any decisions.
how long (approximately) before i can start walking on my own?? i know, i am so impatient. I’m just so eager to get out of the house on my own terms.
Posted in Uncategorized | | |
4 Responses to ' 31 days post-op '
Leave a reply
ATR Timeline
- Name: michelle153
Location: Cook Islands
Injured during: Netball
Which Leg: L
Status: PWB
705 wks 2 days Post-ATR
704 wks 4 days
Since start of treatment
Michelle 153
- michelle153 has completed the grueling 26.2 ATR miles to full recovery!
Goal: 160 days from the surgery date.
Click here for the Group Marathon Tracker
on August 2nd, 2012 at 6:25 pm
I had a wound complication too, very annoying. First goal is for your incision to heal completely. Once the infection has cleared, and the incision is closed, you can start swimming. This will already make you feel better.
Walking usually comes at 8 or 10 weeks. Be patient, you will soon be able to get around on your own.
on August 2nd, 2012 at 6:31 pm
Hi Michelle. I understand about being inpatient. I am a re-rupture case. I “severely pulled” my Achilles Feb. 15th. I opted for conservative treatment when MRI said no tear. Fast forward 4 months, last exercise to be discharged from PT, one legged jumping exercise with stick of landing. Pop goes the weasel. When I first hurt it there was no pop, just the feeling that Bruce Lee kicked me in the back of the leg. I had surgery June 18th at the Steadman Clinic in Vail, CO with Dr. Clanton. Had FHL done to reinforce the tendon because of the re-rupture. This injury requires ALOT of patience. I am very athletic and was inpatient the first time around. I got after it with PT, did everything they told me and it still it popped. You have to be patient and LISTEN to your body. If I was listening to my body, I would have had second thoughts doing the jump the Physical Therapist wanted me to do so he could discharge me. So Plan A was conservative treatment, Plan B was losing the ability to bend my big toe, I honestly do not know what Plan C would be if I re-ruptured again but I swear to everything Holy I am not going to find out.
on August 2nd, 2012 at 7:06 pm
Thank’s for the advice. Can’t help but thinking “if i hadn’t had this infection, the wound might have healed by now”. It’s terrible. When the Dr. removed the backslab to see the skin broke down and the nylon stitches didn’t hold because of it. He simply said in a monotone “oh that’s disappointing” and gave me antibiotics and a visit again in a week to pull the skin back together. At that moment i wanted to jump off the bed and strangle him. We switched to a private doctor who said had we listed to my former Dr. it would’ve taken twice as long to heal. I was hoping that my age (19 years) would be an advantage. It also has its fair share of disadvantages too. @ mountainmarco: so sorry to hear about your complications. I will try to take it easy and listen to my body.
on August 2nd, 2012 at 11:36 pm
Hi Michelle.
Sounds like your Mum has been an excellent txi driver like my Mum has been. Timeframes - it is a bit of case of each situation is different, but these were mine:
Surgery Sept 16th 2011 - 6 weeks in a cast, so about the end of Oct. I then was transferred to a moonboot, I had to wear this all the tim
e for quite a while (even sleeping in it - wear a pillow case over the moonboot if you do it protects the sheets). I had my Achilles lengthened, a hernia just below the knee fixed and scar tissue from a previous operation removed, so my physio kept me in the moonboot for quite a long time to protect the leg - I think it was around the middle of November that I was allowed to come out of it around the house, but I still had to wear it until the end of January when I went out.
My best advice is work with your PT and get some timeframes from them. I found it useful to get very clear timeframes from my physio as this just gave me some peace of mind.
Hang in there, I know it can be tough but it will and does get better.
Take care.
Karen