Back to King’s College Hospital on Friday and had a very! which consultancy. Checked my Achilles, said it’s healed well and I could move on to physio. Got my second shoe from my backpack and put that on and walked out carrying the boot.. Consultant suggested I keep hold of the boot just in case [...]
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Heel now flat in boot and I’m walking very early without crutches. Walk as much as I can without boot when it’s safe, although not at any recommendation from the medical profession. Swelling in ankle and atrophied calf muscle are visible signs and the weakness in my leg means walking isn’t easy. My inclination is [...]
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Not much changes day to day now. Foot feels able to flex further than the angle it’s at in the boot today. I’ll lower the heel tomorrow and even that is sooner than prescribed. Progress seems unnecessarily slow, although my overriding wish is not to go back to square one so I’m sticking with the [...]
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Calculated that if I lower my foot one level every 5 days I will be flat in the boot for the final week before my next appointment at the fracture clinic. This is a week ahead of wherethey thought I’d be. Hopefully means I can get out of the boot and onto the physio proper. [...]
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First appointment at the physio yesterday turned out to be a bit of a non-event. They were really just making sure recovery is heading in the right direction but not much they can do ahead of me coming out of the boot.
Measured my foot movement; I can bring my foot up to about 80° and [...]
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