I Can Walk Again!!!!!

Sorry this post is late today, but what a yesterday I had!

Monday was my surgeon's appointment for my rebuilt foot and ankle - and they removed the cast and said it looks like I can walk!  Only 5 minutes an hour at this point - but I can WALK! on it!

So with Swede to catch me, Wednesday, I did.

I made it all of 75 feet into my favorite Mexican restaurant.  Dined for an hour and made it back out with only one side step!  But, I did it!!!!!

Of course, that little trip really kicked me bad and I was out of it for the rest of the day and well into Thursday it seems!  So, I slept through my time I could have thought of a post for today.

Really bad feet and ankles run in my mother's family.  A Spencer is going to give birth - just plan on surgery for the kid right off the bat for a guaranteed shade of a club foot to one or both feet.  I was "lucky" in that there was no surgery back in the day, but I did have to wear steel inserts in my boots (not shoes) through all of my childhood to straighten the ankle/feet.  But, this left both feet with an odd cant to them and as an adult I have tried to get foot doctors to make an insert so that foot is flat to the ground - hoping to avoid the second problem I have, the Plattner bad knees.

So, I took my first step yesterday and almost fell flat on my face!  Yeah, the surgeon had corrected that little Spencer problem and my foot now falls flat to the ground when I step.  Very disconcerting!!!!!  But, yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!

Of course, the left foot is still slightly canted sideways, so it makes for a very interesting exercise, that short walk.

I do not believe there are any walks in my future today, the ankle is very tired still and sore.  Maybe towards evening I will walk to the bathroom ...  Maybe even take my first soaking bath since March ...

Oh that would be a joy!  I will have to see how all of the holes they drilled in my foot and ankle are doing at closing up first!

:)