7 month Update !!!
02/04/2011
Hi all , a lot of new names since I last posted and some old ones too.
Not much to report since my last visit really. I’m back in work since Feb, despite the Job occupational therapist saying that the normal return date would be March, but i wanted to go back and that was that. I was phased back into it , 2 weeks at 1/3 of the job then 2 weeks of 2/3 of it but by week 3 I decided to go back to doing the full 3/3 myself and i was allowed.
I Haven’t looked back since and despite getting the odd pain in my leg not always the Achilles mind, things are ok. Go to the gym 3 times a week and do static bike, row machine and treadmill as my cardio. I have also stated running on the treadmill (approx 6 weeks go). Again no problems there so far!!!!
Not sure if I mentioned but I knocked going to the physio of the head before Christmas and haven’t gone back. It Was costing me 55euro a go and I didn’t feel it was worth it, as I think I learned more on here. After most of the sessions with him I would think, “what did he do there to get 55 of me?!?!? ” and the answer was most of the time….. NOT A LOT.
To anybody who is going through this injury and is in the early stages, the only piece of advice I’d dare to give is, have patience. Looking back now I think had i know the course of my injury and its treatment, I would have enjoyed the “down time” a bit more than I actually did. Once you’ve got the treatment for the injury surgical or non surgical and are following the protocol best for you then try relax and let your body heal itself. Try no worry too much about it (as that’s what I did and I let it get to me sometimes)and keep the brain active .
Take care all and good luck
PHIL
April 3rd, 2011 at 6:36 pm
Phil, hello from “an old name”!
Your “I knocked going to the physio of the head before Christmas and haven’t gone back” sent me straight to Google! I’ve quit doing lots of things, but I don’t usually “knock them of the head”!! You haven’t installed the nifty little “ATR Timeline Widget”, so we can’t instantly check your location, and I forget if you’ve told us — UK somewhere?
Google finds lots more hits from knocking things ON the head than OF it, but both ways are idiomatic in some places — though nowhere I’ve ever hung out before. I think it’s cute!
I also found PT much less useful after a few months had passed than it was initially, so I quit (Kioth!). Hard to prove that it helped at first, but it seemed to, and even the “seeming” was probably worth the cash (less than 55 Euros hereabouts) during those dark, boring weeks.
Your “getting the odd pain in my leg not always the Achilles mind” also takes me back: I remember feeling weirdly pleased, the first time my OTHER leg got bruised badly enough to bother me more than my ATR leg! That’s probably too weird a reaction for anybody but this crowd to understand. . .
April 4th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Hi Norm,
good to hear from you. I came back here a few times but the site was down for a while and then I forgot to come back !?!?! If you knew me personally, that would make sense ;>).
I re read my “7 month” post and the first thing I noticed is the post should be called “I’m great “. I didn’t mean it to come across like that but I think it might have :>))))
The second thing is, “I knocked it on the head” is almost slang, so apologies for that too. Basically it means stopping something you do NOT like doing or wasn’t worth doing. If you know any 1st generation Irish over there they might be familiar with it.
I wont be adding a photo of it to my modelling portfolio but,I don’t seem to have the lumps on the Achilles that others seem to have ,plus it wasn’t sore , so I didn’t think he(physio) had anything to do other than give me exercises , which basically i could find here or on other sites.
I tried doing the time line widget and it didn’t work for me !!! Or i didn’t work for it !!!
Sorry.
How are you doing ?
The last time we talked you weren’t long after your op , if memory serves me correctly.
Rdgs
Phil
April 4th, 2011 at 7:31 pm
Phil, I don’t know why that last comment is “awaiting moderation”, but please approve it, and delete this one. You can also adjust your blog’s “trigger” to make it more permissive, but this “awaiting moderation” is still somewhat mysterious to me. . .
July 1st, 2011 at 10:44 pm
Thanks for coming back with sensible and rational update. Its as important to me to hear from long term recoverers as it is sharing current sufferers. It reminds us there is light at the end of the tunnel and it isn’t always a train coming.