It’s been 5 weeks since ankle hardware removal surgery and I can walk/hike 5 miles and balance on one leg just as I could before the hardware removal. The long incision over my fibula, however, is healing and recovering, and I’m still working to get dorsiflexion back. When our cat…

My ankle is no long bionic and the hardware was taken out! I mentioned, in last month’s post, that I was planning to talk with the surgeon about hardware removal. I had an appointment with her, she felt how the screws on the fibula were visible and palpable and painful…

One year ago I slipped on carpeted stairs in our house, my left ankle took the force of the fall on a tile floor, and that began my recovery from displaced trimalleolar fracture. I got a lot of help and support from my wife and daughter during this injury recovery…

At 9 months my left calf (above ankle that was broken) was an inch smaller than my right calf. It’s still, now at 11 months, an inch smaller though I noticed my right calf got bigger so the left calf is still catching up. …

I love snowshoeing and x-country skiing. I talked with physical therapist about which would be easiest/best given state of my ankle at 10 months. We decided on x-country skiing since snowshoeing might be more difficult. Surprise! Before this injury, x-country skiing was easy and fun. After this injury, caused by…

It’s been 9 months since I slipped on stairs, landed on my ankle on a tile floor, and started this journey of injury and recovery. Months 1–3 were NWB (non weight bearing) Months 4–6 I worked to walk again and go up and down stairs Months 6–8 I improved balancing…

I’ve reached a new point of view on this experience. Instead of worrying that pain is going to be tendonitis, and resisting or relenting to pain, I’m thinking of pain as scar tissue that needs to break up and joint that wants to move more and breathing through it. …

I brought one trekking pole for hiking in Hawai’i, while on vacation, because walking downhill is still difficult. The rainforest hiking trails had exposed roots and streams to cross and the trekking pole really helped give me confidence on steep declines and over slippery rocks in streams. I did it! …

Dorsiflexion and plantarflexion are now the same in both ankles! A few days ago I did an hour of stretching and working on motion and strengthening. Then I gave my ankle an epsom salt soak, massaged it to help continue breaking up scar tissue, and for the first time noticed…