The General Update Here I am on the morning of January 1, 2020—the year of the future—closing out 2019’s periodic surgery stats updates. We are officially at the point where I hope that these stats can be reconceptualized as training stats, because I do hope that I have progressed to the time when I can …
Again! Finally! Well, I’m back, sort of. This morning marked the first morning that I got out of bed, laced up my shoes, and jogged along the Potomac River in over a year. I have officially reached the return to running on the road phase of my recovery. At the moment, I am running in …
Briefly (for Now) I remain very busy. For starters, I think that I have finally decided on a good working structure for this website, so I have begun the process of designing and installing a proper navigation menu for it. This endeavor takes time on its own, and it has forced me to streamline and …
And Start Forward I will readily admit that last week’s post was grouchy. I feel compelled to issue an apology for that because the people who have been managing my medical care and the people close to me, presumably the people who are reading these posts, have consistently expressed concern about my recovery. At the …
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 …
More Surgery Stats The title really does say it all. Today marks another entry in the very long milestone marking process of my ankle surgery recovery. I should say up front that I am not keeping track of all of these modest progress points either to brag or to engage in some kind of elongated …
Ugh It has been a little while, I know. Last week was a particularly heavy grading week, so I spent much of my free time commenting on student paper drafts. In addition, I am working on another web project, this time for my father. I have been furiously working to try to bring that project …
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 …
Time Flies It is early on the morning of January 7, 2019, and today, I am making my official return to work—two months to the date of my ankle surgery. For the most part, I am now walking in a motion-control boot without the added support of prosthetics. I tend only to use crutches when …