I had my first official post-op follow up this past Wednesday. The ortho said my x-rays looked great, and while he's still very concerned about the sore (that was the fracture blister) healing without getting infected, otherwise he seemed fine with current progress. Once my incisions are all healed and the sutures are removed, I will begin non-weight bearing PT, so probably in the next week or so that will get started. Try to get motion back into the ankle joint before too much stiffness and scar tissue has time to settle in.
This was my first time seeing my leg since the surgeries have been done. It's pretty knarly, definitely a Frankenstein leg now. There will be some beautiful scars at the end of it - I guess at least "dirt biking" sounds cooler than "tripping over a curb," even if it was the least spectacular crash ever.
Of course, I was so wrapped up in looking at my leg and trying to figure out everything I could do to help it along that I totally forgot to ask all of the questions I had - I have to head back in for a follow up on the sutures today, but that's not with the ortho so I will probably go ahead and send a message over the online tool.
I went ahead and ordered myself an iWalk 2.0. As long as the doc is okay with me using it, I'm HOPING it's all it's cracked up to be and I can maybe get back to a slightly more normal life. If that will allow me to grocery shop (getting stuff up the stairs would still be a challenge however), and if it's easy enough to walk on without pain, then I could hopefully make better use of the ferry for work and could then walk (rather than relying on Lyft) to get to my office. The 1-mile hike is a bit too much on crutches, but I'm thinking the iWalk it might be okay. Plus, hopefully, it will just allow easier and more movement in my life - which I need right now.
Other than that, my next appointment with the doc isn't until Feb 8th, 4 weeks out. I'm guessing at that time he'll assess whether the bones are healing well enough to begin light weight bearing PT and/or what the prospective schedule for that might be. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that all the things I'm doing will put me closer to the best case instead of worst case scenario. We shall see in 4 weeks.
In the meantime, that stupid blister-sore is still the most painful thing. If I can get that to feel better, than the pain is pretty minimal, but damn that thing hurts. Apparently that is the type of pain I don't deal with very well! Still going to keep on keeping on and doing what I can as my energy and leg allows to get the best case scenario I can!
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