I had a late night soccer game on the 9th. After half time we were playing, I was standing all by myself and the ball came to me, I went to run and BAM tore my Achilles. Just like that! Fell on my face, screamed, and cried! It was pretty sucky.
Joy took me to Mckay Dee Hospital after the game. It was pretty obvious that it was torn. They braced it for me, gave me some heavy duty pain killer, and said someone would contact me the next day for an MRI.
The next day Mike called to set up an appointment with a surgeon. They told him to bring me in right then. I thought I was getting an MRI, I guess Dr. Goucher had a cancellation and he came out and looked at it and said "Yep, its torn. Let's do surgery."
10 minutes later I was prepped and ready to go.
It was kind of nice that I didn't have a lot of time to think about it and worry.
The kids loved all my new accessories!
I had to go in to get it recast before our trip to Yellowstone. It was driving me crazy! The pain really wasn't that bad, but having that half cast was the worst!
Yellowstone was interesting. Driving in the car for hours kind of sucked. I still had a fun time.
On the 28th I got the cast off! Hallelujah!
I also got to go to the store, or anywhere for the first time since my surgery!
And got a boot on, which also drove me crazy but at least I could take it off!
I wore the boot for a little over a month. I was able to wean out of it the second week of December.
I was able to wear shoes for the first time on December 3, and got my stitches out!I did some physical therapy. It is now the beginning of January. It is still sore to touch. Ankle socks and shoes really bother it. I still limp around, but I can tell that it is getting better, and I can kind of flex my calf muscle now! So that's good.
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