Here at week 17, after I initially broke my ankle, the weeks are starting to get more similar. Improvements this week are: Walking with a cane or no cane. The crutches are officially retired and the knee scooter is collecting dust and cat hair. My wife is my evening walking…

Experiments with no crutches, 1 crutch, both crutches: Inside of my house I don’t use crutches and I go up and down stairs To physical therapy I used 1 crutch and also used a yoga mat on the floor (I can get up and down without assistance now!) At the…

Walking is amazing! Even the very slow turtle walk I do. I’m walking around inside my house without crutch or cane. I use crutches outside. Inside feels safer because there is furniture nearby to collapse on if it all becomes too much. I have a few goals for the next…

After I was released from CAM boot, I was wearing Birkenstocks until I had time to get to shoe store to buy wider running shoes to accommodate swollen foot and ankle. Of all of my shoes, only my Birkenstocks fit. It was tricky to walk in Birkenstocks and crutches. …

No more CAM boot! I had an appointment with surgeon and x-ray showed fibula is now healed and bone has filled in. That means I don’t need to wear CAM boot and can do full weight bearing. I imagined myself doing cartwheels down the hall. When I got home, I…

I can move my ankle! People told me, and it’s true, once you start PT and start working on range of movement, movement starts happening. Some mornings it is easier, some mornings it is more difficult, and I’m determined to walk and run again. Going up stairs on crutches is…

This week I started physical therapy for real and I have been walking (short distances) with crutches while weight bearing probably 20% of body weight on my recovering ankle. When I was non-weight-bearing (NWB) I would get some exercise by crutching back and forth across our courtyard and I got…

This is the week the surgeon gave me a date and said I could start weight bearing on that date (9 weeks after surgery, 10 weeks after injury). She didn’t say what to do for weight bearing so I looked on reddit (r/brokenbones) to get some ideas. I got out…

It is just 8 days until the date the surgeon told me I could start weight bearing. In anticipation I have just lightly set my bare foot on the bamboo floor in our house to see what it feels like. …