big challenge

today marks a new milestone: goodbye boot, hello shoes!  it is both liberating and frustrating at the same time.  it is liberating to get the 5-pound godforsaken apparatus off of my leg (…yet i am thankful that modern science has enabled us to have things like this).  it is also frustratingly deceiving as even though i am wearing two shoes and look somewhat normal, i know i am not.  “dah-dum, dah-dum, dah-dum, dah-dum” is the all-too familiar sound of my footsteps.  at least people know i’m coming.  

a few uncomfortable pings are keeping me at the slow, yet steady pace.  i’m not quite sure what i am feeling.  perhaps it is due to the fact that i have been off of my leg for quite some time.  i’m sure that with pt i will gain the strength and rom to begin to walk normally soon.  aah patience! 

for those not yet back in your shoes - the time will come! 

best wishes everyone