Painted Toes

Mindy joined me for my appointments. I had my splint/cast reaglined. Ankle is at 5 degrees from 85%. This was my last orthotics appointment. They took off the heel from my sneaker, yay! A heel lift was placed in my sneaker and I was ready to go.

At PT they gave me a blue rubber thingy. Did plantarflexion exercises. Weight on ATR foot increased from 37 lbs to 60 lbs. It took me a while to keep the pressure on the scale at 60 lbs. Then I walked around the gym (with crutches and 60lbs on my ATR foot). PT suggested that I pull at my foot using the blue thingy with the splint on (to prevent from overstretching as I have a front slab splint) and hold it for 5 seconds 4x a day. And that was it. I will return next week. It was very nice having Mindy for company.

I went fishing the next day with Dacia and it was so nice just to be out of the house and doing something that I love to do! We fished off of the pier as I am not ready to brave riding boats yet. I am still fearful of a re-rupture. Dacia just bought a beautiful boat and I was sad that we could not ride on it. I will next year.  I had a few bites but no fish. People came to watch us fish off of the pier. I wonder if they were interested in the fish, or watching me in a wheelchair fishing?! :D  Unfortunately, I was left with a bad sunburn. I forgot my SPF 50 lotion. Stupid. Came home feeling really nauseous and stayed in bed for the rest of the day. Thanks to Dacia for the fishing opportunity!

Not much to report this week-other than one large scab fell off recently, yay! I have two more big ones left. Still have not been able to submerge my leg in water yet..hopefully soon.

I see my surgeon on August 6 and I am looking forward to it, as I think he will declare me PWB by then…HOPEFULLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If not that, I’ll still be happy as I’ll be nearly 9 weeks post surgery by then. Just the number of weeks that go by is recovery in itself.