Week 3

Are we there yet?

I feel like a kid riding in the back seat of their parents car on a long road trip who just wants to know "are we there yet".  In other words, I am ready to walk and be done with this already.  Aside from the inability to put two feet on the ground my life has gotten back to normal after surgery...well sort of.  I mean I cant go grocery shopping by myself.  Heck, i can barely fill my car up with gas, but I do all and everything I can to be as normal as possible. Even still, I feel agitated at times and I really have to work hard to muster up enough patience to make it just a few more weeks.

Overall, the pain has had its moments.  Don't think for a second that just because the pain gets better at times that it doesn't come back with a vengeance a some point or another.  If anything, I think the pain is always there lingering, but after awhile you learn to manage the pain.  I am mostly using over the counter meds and will only take the strong stuff at night when I am awoken in pain.

Big 4 week doctors appointment in a couple of days.  I will update you all with how that goes.  My goal is to get him to let me start putting weight on it, wish me luck.

Shannon

Swelling is down a lot, it almost looks normal

And the Doctor Says....

Two more weeks non-weight bearing.  Say it aint so.  Two more weeks on crutches, hoping around and sleeping in a boot is really unfortunate, but apparently necessary for me to heal correctly.  Overall, my doc seems pleased with my progress, and how I am healing.  He said the only reason he wants me off my ankles for so long is because of the Osteochondrtis Dissecans (cartilage loose in the joint) treatment in which he removed and shaved down from my fibula.  Normally he said patients with sprained ankle injuries will see an OCD injury on their talus bone and that I honestly lucked out to have this on my fibula.  He said that if I would have had this sort of cartilage damage on my Talus that their would be a greater chance of arthritis issues later on.  Additionally, the Doc gave me some more ROM (Range of Motion) exercises to do, which he said will make me sore, but then I'm already sore so I don't think more sore will be that sore.  Anyways, that was the basis of my appointment and I will be back at the doctor in two weeks to hopefully be told that I can walk again...or at least get started walking again.

Art work drawn by my doctor of my ankle.  He mentioned i did not have any cartilage damage on my talus, but instead on my fibula bone (right of image) and both ligaments connecting the fibula and talus were torn (AFL and CFL)