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My watch keeps warning me I’m at risk of falling. I know! I’m still learning how to walk again! Three foot surgeries in under a year plus a stress fracture in the other foot makes for very low walking steadiness. Sigh.
“Very Low Walking Steadiness
Your Walking Steadiness continues to be very low and you may be at high risk of falling in the next 12 months.”
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I’m still alive!
May even try to be alive outside!
I’m craving nature so have looked up transit directions to the duck pond I haven’t been to in over a year. My soul needs nourishing.
#Today #SelfCare #Anxiety #Depression #FrankenFoot #FootWound
I’m really feeling this today:
I am not fully healed
I am not fully wise
I am still on my way
What matters is that
I am moving forward
~Yung Pueblo
#Today #FrankenFoot #FootWound #Recovery #Poetry #YungPueblo
Now I’m singing a song I started while doing my wound dressing change
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So many bandages
So very many gloves
So many bandages
So very many gloves
Anybody know the Mepore brand of bandages? That’s what the hospital uses. They are not cheap.
I need to change my wound dressing but I don’t want to get up off the couch 😆
Yes, I’m crying in public. Again. I keep bringing myself to tears with gratitude.
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So grateful to have made it to the community garden today to appreciate the flowers.
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#Today #GratefulBee #NorthVan #LowerLonsdale #FrankenFoot #FootWound #Recovery #PhysioRehab #NatureTherapy #MentalHealth
A bee was playing hide + seek with me on my walk earlier today.
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I stopped to appreciate flowers in someone’s yard + noticed a fuzzy bee in one of the flowers.
Since I’m using hiking poles to practice walking outside, it was tough to get a pic. I tried but the bee was all: *no* paparazzi!
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I made it further than yesterday but had new pains. I’m walking the route I used to take to the duck pond. I’ll get there someday.
#Today #FrankenFoot #FootWound #Recovery #PhysioRehab #GratefulBee
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Thank you to those who helped me, held space, + let me cry on their shoulders over the past year+. I’m not quite myself but I feel myself emerging from the darkness.
I was severely depressed before my foot surgeries. There’s been a lot of darkness in my life + I’ve had many challenges over the years. This has been the worst physically debilitating pain I’ve endured. There were days when it felt like I would never emerge from the darkness.
Who walked the farthest distance outside today with hiking poles?
🙌 I did! 🙌
Fuck, I started to cry when I saw my watch had recorded 10 minutes of exercise. Luckily that was when a friend saw me sitting on a bench in the park. She was happy to see me out and about and walked home with me after many high-fives.
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#Today #FrankenFoot #FootWound #PhysioRehab #Recovery #GratefulBee #NorthVan
Give yourself a break
Adulting is hard
0/10 would not recommend
I doubled the amount of times I did a particular physio exercise this past week compared to the week before. It’s painful so that’s why I don’t want to do it. I told myself to do it tonight but then I didn’t. I did it 6 out of the last 7 days so I’ll count that as a win since I only managed to do it 3 times the previous week. Progress.
#Today #FrankenFoot #FootWound #Recovery #PhysioRehab #AdultAF
Today my mental health coach told me I have come a long way and should be proud of myself. My healing is taking as long as it is taking and I have made progress. Apparently I’m too hard on myself.
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#Today #FrankenFoot #FootWound #Recovery #MentalHealth #Depression #Anxiety #GratefulBee
Walking down the block and back with my cane didn’t even register as exercise on my watch. I know I did it, so it counts.
Note to self: do not look around at the new apartments built across the street since that messes with your balance
My doctor advised me on Friday to leave the bandage off Frankenfoot more often at home except while in bed.
Today I was going to remove the bandage from Frankenfoot when I got out of bed. But, I was surprised to see the bandage removed itself at some point in the night! Strangely, it reattached itself backwards to an area of my foot next to the wound.
Frankenfoot wants to be free!
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I had a very unrestful sleep. Up for 2 hours around 4 AM because of the heat.
New physio exercise given to me yesterday: try walking down a short hall in my apartment without the cane but use the walls if needed to steady myself.
So, I just tried walking without my cane and I’m so glad there isn’t any video footage. I felt like a drunk toddler. 🤣 I definitely could not walk in a straight line unassisted. Baby steps. Drunk baby steps. 🤣
So apparently I did too much yesterday. No regrets. My physiotherapist advised me to start small with short 5-minute walks outside. Literal baby steps. He said I could try using walking poles instead of the cane.
I had a full day yesterday including going out for lunch + ice cream with a good work friend after physio. She also took me to a forest. While walking is limited, my soul really needs to be in nature.
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#FrankenFoot #FootWound #Recovery #PhysioRehab #NatureTherapy #MyHealingPlace
Achievement unlocked today: I walked to a doctor appointment about 3 blocks away with my cane.
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Oh ya, I graduated from the walker to the cane a week ago.
It feels good to finally have a primary care physician again. I didn’t realize the toll it was taking on me.
Friends, I can feel my “self” returning. I just sang a silly song to Frankenfoot as I did my dressing change. I’m not quite “me” again but it’s nice to see glimpses every now and then.
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This has been my absolute *worst* year and I didn’t think I’d ever feel like “me” again. Pain has robbed me of so much. But now I see the light and I’m grateful.
#Today #FrankenFoot #FootWound #GratefulBee #Recovery #MentalHealth #Depression #Anxiety #LoveAndLight
I just glanced longingly at my Doc Martens boots. It has been so long since I’ve been able to wear them. I’m guessing it’ll be months until Frankenfoot will allow me to wear them.
Goth goals
Today I have gratitude for the little things. Like being able to take out my own garbage, composting, and recycling. It hasn’t quite been a month since I started doing it myself and it does get easier each week.
I don’t know why but I truly *hated* having to rely on friends to do that for me.
Frankenfoot is looking close to being healed. The plastic surgeon thought that almost a month ago + didn’t think it’d take another month. But I know I take longer than most to heal.
The original biopsy took almost 3 months to heal. It was *much* smaller since they took out a 5 mm margin around it on April 11. August 17 will be 3 months since the skin graft surgery. There’s one spot still not healed but the hole has almost filled in. The body is amazing.
I made it to the *west* side of the park. I used to walk through both sides of the park daily before foot pain issues began last summer.
#Today #FrankenFoot #FootWound #Recovery #PhysioRehab #BabySteps
I made it to the park near my place!
A crazy thought just occurred to me! After a bit of a rest, I’m going to venture to the *west* side of the park. The east side is near my place but I realized I have not been on the west side since probably last year.
#Today #FrankenFoot #FootWound #Recovery #PhysioRehab #BabySteps
I may be crazy to even think about it today in this heat, but I’m going to go outside for a short walk. Physiotherapist’s orders.
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I’ve been feeling like Stuart from Mad TV at my last couple of physio appointments. To show my progress since the previous week, I keep saying to my physiotherapist:
Look what I can do!
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Fuck it’s hot
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Resting on a bench with my walker in the shade not far from my friend’s place. She picked up some gluten free dark chocolate sunflower butter cups for me at Trader Joe’s in Oregon last month.
I’ll then stop in the shade in the park near my place before heading home. I’m literally 2 blocks from my place but it will take me a while to get there with my limited mobility in this heat.
My physiotherapist also treated my back today in addition to my foot. Now I have a mark on my forehead. But my back needed the attention.
Now enjoying gluten free pizza for lunch at a local business.
#Today #FrankenFoot #FootWound #Recovery #GlutenFree #ShopLocal #NorthVan
My hips and back have been very vocal about my return to working from home. I knew I’d be tired and that my foot wouldn’t approve but I wasn’t expecting other body parts to hurt.
I injured my tailbone in 2000 and suspected my tailbone cushion was no longer cutting it. I ordered a different type of cushion yesterday and it was delivered today. It feels awesome so I hope I won’t be in as much pain tomorrow from sitting.
This working thing is exhausting. I haven’t even worked a full week and I don’t know how I’m going to keep doing it. I know it takes time to recover after surgery but I’m so tired.
I cried in physio yesterday when asked to march on the spot without holding onto anything. I was too afraid so my physiotherapist reached his hands out + asked me to hold onto him. I was surprised when I burst into tears. He was very compassionate + said it’s tough for the brain to get used to it after using the walker for such a long time. He assured me I would not go straight from the walker to walking on my own. I always knew I’d graduate to the cane.
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