recovery

Training Stats

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 …

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On the Road

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 …

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On the Track

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 …

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On the Tread

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 …

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Surgery Stats

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 …

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Back to School

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 …

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