2 Weeks Post Op
I finally got tired of trolling everyones great blogs and decided to jump on the site, hopefully in a year Ill be posting my 1 year post op and it will encourage someone like everyone else’s has encouraged me.
As for me I am Active Duty Army stationed in San Antonio on a desk job after 3 Iraq deployments. On May 7th I was at the local playground playing some Basketball, jumped for a rebound and got the text book “pop”. Being a huge basketball fan and reading all about Kobe’s experience I knew right away what happened. There was no pain but the back of my legs was mush.
Had surgery on 14 May 2013 and was sent home in a cast with my toe pointed down im guessing around 30 degrees. Those 2 days after the surgery were the most painful. When the nerve block wore off it was just horrible. The stinging and throbbing was ridiculous.
My 1st pre-op appointment was on 24 May 2013, during this visit my Dr removed my stitches and said the would was healing great. My foot was a lil swollen and black and blue but he said everything was looking good. He then put me in the standard black boot with a 2 CM heel lift. I could def feel the tendon stretching the 1st day in the boot. I hadnt read anyone else being this aggressive but we shall see how I turn out. I am NWB till Week 4 where I start PWB. I have started doing some Push ups and Situps in my living room to get the blood pumping!
I did read great things about these vacocast boots and ordered one from a fello ATR success story in MA. That will be here Friday. I will post some pics of my legs and such once I get a grasp on this blog!
