Just to prove it’s possible to recover eventually… It’s a bit tough to walk around using the table as one crutch, but I kept it up for three games. 🙂
And I hit a new milestone today... After ten weeks I was allowed to stand, and take a couple of assisted steps, on my actual feet without the boot. I'm not supposed to try it on my own at home yet, but hopefully that'll show up after my next PT appointment next week.
Moving steadily along... I drove my truck to the store yesterday, no need for a bummed ride! One of my next steps will be to replace my car, I've been vacillating between another Honda Insight or a Toyota Camry Hybrid. I'd get a bit better fuel economy in the Insight, but the Camry would put a bit more metal between me at the driver bearing down on me at 100 MPH...
Turns out that the heel bone has settled into a new configuration (read that, the darn thing broke again), breaking a couple of the screws. New surgery next Tuesday to take them out (they likely will take all the screws out, not just the broken ones). Going to be at least a couple of weeks after that before I can get back on my feet. This is my first real setback in the recovery process, other than stress symptoms from medical bills... Twenty weeks in, but this one shouldn't be too much of a delay, maybe a month or six weeks to get back to where I am now. ;(
After an early start (5:30 AM check in) everything went well and I got back home by 1:00 PM. Nerve blocks haven't worn off yet (they said 4-6 hours, it's been 11+), so I'm even still feeling pretty good! They took five of the eight screws out, but left the two broken off pieces. They decided those were going to be more trouble to take out than they'd cause by leaving them in.
