Rankled by the Ankle

Mid-March now; about 2 1/2 months post-op.  How are things going at this point? I'm in semi-regular shoes.  Meaning I'm in Hoka tennis shoes and "semi-dress" shoes all the time, except at night.  I still have a limp.  Over the last couple of weeks, the limp has lessened, but at an extremely slow rate.  It is very hard to tell much of a difference from day to day.   I'm definitely not back to normal or "100%," probably more like 80%.  I tried one morning to go to an event in regular dress shoes with heel lifts in them.  It didn't take long at all before the heel was very mad at me!  One day I also wondered what it would feel like if I pushed off as if I was going to break into a job.  Um, no.  Immediate stress and pain in the Achilles. I don't feel like I'm regressing at all, but some days are bad enough that I wonder if I'm still progressing.  Then I'll have a decent day and think that I am.  I just can't stress enoug...

The days have been pretty similar as of late.  I'm still wearing Hokas everywhere, but the boot hasn't returned.  Each day the limp seems just slightly less pronounced. I returned to the doc at about two months post op.  He gave it a once over, said I could do some physical therapy if I wanted, but it was up to me.  He said as long as I kept progressing I would be good to go, but if things turn for the worse to let him know.  He told me to finish off the Meloxicam and let him know if I needed one more round of it.  I asked if I could exercise, and he said light bike or elliptical would be okay, but don't stress it too much.  He said that the sign that I would be okay to start building up more strenuous exercise would be when the limp disappeared.  It hasn't quite disappeared yet. The progress with this is very slow.  There aren't really miraculous days where things change in an instant.  You just make slow changes here and there, and...