Still Not "Perfect" - 2.5 Months Post-Op

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 enough how the progress is terribly slow.  I'm really not sure if I should push it harder, or use it less.  So right now, I'm just trying to live life like normal.  I'm not doing any sort of exercise or anything, though.

I'm icing it at night on most days and doing a little stretching.  Often by the end of the day my foot feels like it really needs the ice.

I'm borderline of whether or not I should call the doc back, or perhaps look into PT.  As I feel like I'm still moving forward, as of right now I'm going to stick with pushing forward on my own (subject to change).

I don't mean for this to all sound negative.  I do feel I'm moving forward still.  But life is still off from normal.  I'll be interested to see if things will be different at 3 months.

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