Not so Wild Dog

So my surgery is on a Wed and I am planning on going back to work on the following Monday.  Reading some of the blogs however, I am beginning to feel I am way to optimistic.  I have a job where I usually walk all day, but they know about this and we are fixing it so I can just stand part time and sit part time.  Realistically, is 10 days to 2 weeks more like it?

I am not really sure when I injured my achilles, it seems like it has ached for so long. I just figured I was getting older and the aches were just part of the package. Since I’ve been able to do everything I wanted to do, I just basically ingnored it. However, in early September, I found I could barely walk when I first got out of bed. It would get better throughout the day as long as I kept moving, but once I stopped, it really tightened up. When I was feeling around on it I found two rather large lumps and decided that lumps probably aren’t a good thing so I went to my family Dr. He said it was probably calcium deposits, sent me for an x-ray and said to come back in two weeks. In the meantime we called my girlfriends brother, who was an athletic trainer for UTC. He said I better get to an orthopedist so I did. When I took off my shoe and sock, and he saw the lumps, he told me that when you can see the lumps like I had, then a lot of damage had already been done. He said he would have to do an MRI to be certain, but surgery would probably be required The MRI confirmed what he thought and he gave me no other option but surgery, especially since I walk 10-12 miles per day in the cornfields during the summer, and do a little mountain climbing. I love racquetball and played at least three days a week, but he said that would need to cease. The Dr. says that I should be able to climb again, and I should be able to be back in the cornfields this next summer.
My surgery date is Dec 3 and I am really getting antsy. I want to get it done and over with and get on with getting better. Plus I am so scared it will do a complete rupture in the meantime.
This blogsite has been a godsend! I had no idea that this was such a common injury, and hearing all of the successes makes me believe I can have a complete recovery.

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