Dancing in the Dark
Yesterday was a bit of a bleak day, thank you to Ron and Stuart for the advice, am back on the road to recovery.
Chose ‘Dancing in the Dark’ as my song for today as I have elected not to tell my surgeon that I have changed from his no name brand, heavy, uncomfortable moonboot to my beautiful Vacoped. Had an appointment with him this morning so put his boot on and crutched my way in. As per usual he had no interest in how I was doing. Changed my dressing,wound is looking good,his worries about it breaking down fortunately unfounded. He then changed his mind several times over when I should see him again, eventually settled on 3 weeks. Then he remembered that there were wedges in the boot and thought that maybe he should take one of them out but then said no weight bearing and he’ll leave the wedges in till I see the physio. Am allowed to take boot off to shower, yay yay yay but must keep wound wrapped in plastic and change dressing every 2 days.
So, yesterday I tentatively started touching my left foot down, such a great feeling to be moving towards being a biped again. Really enjoyed the feeling of rocking over in my foot, all done very gently and certainly lying in bed last night my calf could feel that it had done something beyond elevation and floating in a boot.
Today have done a little bit more partial weight bearing. Does anyone out there have an actual definition of what PWB should be or are we all dancing in the dark on this one too?