rainbow395

Hello,

It has been a while since my last post - (that sounds a bit like a confessional!) so thought I would do a quick update. On the whole things seem to have been going pretty well and am pretty much back to normal life. But then “normal” life for me isn’t running marathons or cycling 100km a day - much as I would like it to be! Anyway, am still seeing the physio and she is very pleased with how things are going and when I saw her today she was basically saying go for it and do some jogging - but then I didn’t jog before so that would be impressive if I started now! But more seriously she was encouraging me to do a lot more heel lifts and walking up hill and for longer and yes I could try horse riding again. To me it all feels very tight and I am very underconfident about doing too much, especially with stories like 2nd timers and others who re-ruptured in these early days. I am tending to have a more softly softly approach, and besides it is quite tricky keep up a rehab routine that is very intensive around the kids - I might get a couple of heel raises in and then get interrupted. I find I am managing to get through most of the stretches done in the shower first thing in the morning but then often I may not do many more later in the day. Whilst I haven’t got matching legs quite yet, they are getting more similar by the day and very little swelling these days.

Hope everyone else is moving forward too; it does get better just very slowly. A friend of mine has just dislocated and fractured her elbow and she also lives rurally with young children - she struggles to even cook dinner - at least with an ATR once your are positioned somewhere you can get on with things - it is all relative isn’t it!