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Wahoo!! The cast is off!

It’s been a little over six weeks since I broke my ankle that fated day back in April, and finally… the cast is off of my foot. I’ve been getting better and better throughout the past few weeks on the cast, and for the past two weeks I’ve been able to walk on it slowly with the aid of a cane. When I switched from the crutches (no hands free) to the cane (1 hand free), it was amazing the amount of stuff I could then do more easily. Being able to carry stuff around for myself (like getting myself a glass of milk from the fridge) is a simple pleasure that you don’t really miss until you can’t do it for yourself..

As expected, the skin underneath the cast is kinda gross, I’ll spare you the pics, but I asked the nurses and they all said that they’ve seen much worse. Eew. Since I still have a big screw that spans the fibula and tibula, I have a big black walking boot that I have to use until they take that screw out in a few weeks (which means a few more weeks of sympathy and use of my handicapped parking placard).. Woohoo! I can’t wait scrub my foot squeeky clean.

But the doc says I’m healing up just perfectly, so I’m quite happy with that… I took a look at the xrays, and everything seems to look ok to me, like all the puzzle pieces seem to fit together nicely.. My friend Aveh from high school was here visiting me this weekend, and he told me that in orthopedics, if everything looks ok, it generally is… (he’s a doctor). So, I’m gonna take his word for it. Woo! Doc says I can basically get back to activity after 3 months… so, I guess that’d be July 9th… Hmm.. We’re planning a backpacking trip to the Lost Coast for July 4th — I wonder if I’ll be able to do that…

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