My doctors appointment went well. He was examining my foot (post-cast removal) and said that I was healing well and had good mobility. He said that the good news was that I could swim tomorrow. The bad news was that I was still months away from running. In fact, after having done some additional research on lisfranc joint injury recovery, he said that it could be 6 - 9 months post injury before I was allowed to even start running. Joy.
But the good news was very good. No more cast! Swimming! Working on assisted walking! Biking on the trainer in a couple of weeks! All good!
After my appointment, I went home and scrubbed the crap out of my foot and lower leg. I expected to be hairy (it makes sense!), but I was shocked at how much dead skin had built up in there. It was NASTY! I will say that the first night of sleeping with a naked foot on soft, clean sheets was pure heaven. Except for fear that I'd hurt myself, I would have slept great!
Then I got on a plane for Florida. The first real advantage to this injury was getting to go straight through security with no line and lots of people to help me. That was a super change of pace! The rest of the trip was annoying, but uneventful.
In Florida, I finally got a chance to get a little exercise. I've managed to half hour swims of a little more than 1K yards and it's been wonderful! I'm even managing to walk on it a whole hell of a lot more than I expected at this point. My doc's goal for me was to be walking with only the boot and possibly a little without it on soft surfaces by my next appointment in 6 weeks. That would mean a couple of weeks of using both crutches for support, then a week of just one crutch and then a couple of weeks of just the boot. I'm already comfortable walking with just one crutch and occasionally (for short distances) without them at all. Yay me! I am gauging my progress on pain, and I've had very little. I'm supposed to be stressing that joint to build it up, so this progress is kind of mandatory if I expect to feel anything. Both crutches with the boot never gets sore on my foot...I just get tired!
Anyway, I'm glad to be making progress! Here are a few photos:
My foot immediately after cast removal...icky!
First attempt at kicking in the pool.
My newly pedicured toes in the lovely walking boot that I get to wear around.
