At Last July 14, 2018 was the date when the osteochondral defect in my right ankle decided that it would hide no more and instead would scream at me very loudly for weeks and weeks until my surgeon cut the whole thing out of the bone. Today is June 14, 2019, and I am (finally) […]
At Last I’m still here. I promise. Things are busy. Work is busy. Website development is busy. And physical therapy is keeping me busy. Most of my weeks remain consumed with trips back and forth to various people who push and pull and tug and yank and do various other things to bend me back
My Ankle, by the Numbers Throughout the duration of my recovery, I intend to offer intermittent updates about the various stages of rehab that I’ve experienced and about the overall duration of this very long process. Again, there seems to be precious little information about osteochondral defect rehab on the vast, vast Interwebs, so I’m
Feet Fear Well, I wasn’t kidding about wiggling my big toe. What follows is a short video of one of my latest physical therapy exercises: toe scrunches. As you will see, if you choose to watch a video of my feet (there is a cat drinking wine in the background!), I can move and flex
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A Boot on the Ground! Today marks the day when I can officially begin bearing (some modest) weight on my right ankle. I have not walked since the morning of November 7, 2018, some 36 days ago. Today also marks the day when I am officially off of all post-operation medication, save for the handful
30 Days Out Well, today marks one month from the date of my ankle surgery. It has not been easy. It’s odd to say that, by the way. As I constantly remind myself, what I have experienced is hardly the most serious kind of surgery, and the prognosis is far from grim. I don’t have
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How This Feels It’s a rainy Saturday in Washington, DC, and it is just a few days from my 41st birthday and about ten days from the date of my surgery. I have been in better moods. Last evening, as I was eating dinner with my wife, I sat rather silently, and at one point
Ankle Malfunction See those pictures up there? Does your ankle look like that? Your ankle should not look like that. My ankle? My ankle does look like that. In fact what you see up there, dear reader, is an MRI of my right ankle showing what is called an osteochondral defect (or lesion) in my