![]() ![]() Initial indications are that it hurts my back less - but the acid test will come when I try to get out of bed tomorrow morning! Today I've switched to an indoor rollator to see if that works better. Not experience my severe allergic reaction to the linerĪnd stop my foot sliding around inside the boot with my walker boot undone to show the many layers required for me to So I'm not doing much beyond trying to find a resolution for the problem - whether it's medication, trying to get a physio appointment, sacroiliac stretches, new shoes which will help me walk or an indoor rollator to replace the crutches!īottom line, I'm not much fun right now - and am not very good at blogging. My lower back is also incredibly stiff as well as excruciatingly painful - which is very distracting in relation to everything I'm doing - never mind walking.As a result, my back is screaming with pain!.(I'm now in the 12th week post surgery. ) I'm using muscles in my lower back I haven't used much for weeks and weeks.PPS THANK YOU to all those of you who have written to me - on Facebook or via email - sending your good wishes. Essentially because with hip/knee replacements you get given a brand new joint while I have to "grow my own bone replacement" for a joint - and this carries on for the next 9 months or so. For those thinking this is like a hip replacement or a knee replacement, those two operations are akin to "a walk in the park" compared to my ankle fusion. The whole process is completely exhausting and consequently blogging is going to have to continue to be completely sporadic. I'm hopeful that I will make good progress - but there's no way of knowing when I'm going to be back in town and looking at exhibitions Then it's going to be a question of doing the physio exercises, pacing myself and very gradually extending the distance I walk. ![]() Next week we're going to try taking my normal rollator outside to see how far I can walk comfortably. HOWEVER I think it's going to be a few weeks more before I'm walking normally again and/or any distance. ![]() It does get slightly easier once I get going and hanging on to a rollator also helps. I've now had two days now of walking very short distances around my home very slowly. Which means my ankle is now permanently at a right angle and won't flex The tibia (leg bone) is fusing with the talus (ankle bone) This means I can now start relearning how to walk normally with a calf which is seriously atrophied and an ankle which does not move! After 12 weeks of not a lot of blogging - and living on one leg and a knee scooter - my tibia and talus are fusing nicely (courtesy of two titanium screws in my right ankle).Īs a result, I'm out of the abominable boot and my right foot is now allowed to touch the ground properly and go back into shoes. ![]()
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