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. …

6 weeks after ORIF surgery and 7 weeks after injury my cast was taken off. This was a really strange appointment and I was so grateful that they let my wife stay by me. My ankle feels really vulnerable. …

What to grab on your way to ER with broken ankle If you have time to grab anything … Squeezeball or anything you can squeeze to help with pain since you won’t necessarily get pain meds right away. Comfortable clothes that are easy to put on and take off, packable blanket, layers. ER rooms are cold and they piled multiple warm…

Tattoo time! I saw ads for Ephemeral Tattoo on Instagram and got an appointment for a tattoo on my thigh above the injury. The tattoo should fade within a year and I’ve read it takes about a year to feel “normal” again after this type of injury and surgery. The heart is…

The struggle is real Continuing aches here and there in ankle and stinging incision pain. Every morning I wake up and realize I am temporarily disabled and feel existential despair. I give myself time to feel all the feelings, motivate myself to get out of bed and rally for the day, and then usually…

Activities of Daily Living I noticed that most hospital and medical center web sites focus on the medical experience and requirements of healing. …

At the 2 week point I went in for an appointment with surgeon where my splint was removed, I saw the incisions (eek! That’s my new ankle?!?), …

Surgery day I was at the hospital for 7 hours for outpatient surgery and it was the first time I ever had surgery. I had half of a century of life without broken bones or surgery. Checked in and change into hospital gown and grippy sock Nurse brings me warm blankets to…

On a Thursday morning at 6:45am, I was upstairs in our kitchen, I filled a water glass and grabbed my phone to head downstairs to the room where I work from home in this pandemic. …