As you can imagine, my days are pretty much devoted to ‘nursing’ my ankle. Since getting the moon boot, I’ve left it off as much as possible for the incisions to heal. It’s looking much better today, but still a sight to make strong men flinch I think, so I’m not including a photo. :}
The swelling is coming down nicely, and my foot no longer looks like an over-stuffed sausage. It still feels like one, though.
I’ve been sort of watching a whole lot of tv, knitting some, hemming some, reading some, and put a puzzle out on the dr table. The fact that the sun has been coming out so I can bask in it has been an added bonus after so many grey dreary days this winter.
It’s nearly half way through the 6 weeks (like a 5 year old will protest they are 5 and a *half*) and I’m sure that the next 3 and a bit weeks will zoom by very quickly in retrospect.
Like a friend says – it’s much nicer to say that you have already done the 6 weeks rather than to say you will do 6 weeks…….(I’m paraphrasing, of course).
Once I can tolerate leaving my foot down I have a stack of paperwork to do, including the class instructions for the workshop in Columbus, Ohio the middle of May. What a pity I’ll be out of town for the Great Rug Removal Adventure! 😀 Doug re-booked his holidays to mid-May so that I will be mobile enough to pack up the living room and dining room contents, which will get stored in one of those mobile storage bins that get parked in one’s driveway.
And even though I’ll be able to walk after 6 weeks, I’ve been told by others what have hobbled this road ahead of me that that doesn’t mean I’ll be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound – actual recovery to pre-break function will be a year. Not something the surgeon chose to share with me. OTOH, since I require full mobility in order to weave, I still would have opted for the surgery.
What that means is that I’m going to get me a nifty fashion-statement cane and when I travel to Columbus (and perhaps even Complex Weavers/Convergence) I’m going to request pre-board and transportation between gates. The walk in the Vancouver airport alone will be a challenge, never mind what other airports I’ll have to scurry through to get from here to there. :} Now I know why the temporary parking pass expires this December and not sooner????
Mom and I will have matching canes and limps for a while, I guess. :}