Since I’ve been blog playing this weekend, I decided to go back and revisit some of my posts from my first ankle surgery (follow the history here).

• The first difference is that I have barely blogged this time.  Why? Not sure, but mostly because it was almost a repeat of the first surgery.
• Time at home: the first surgery I was out for 6 weeks; this time it was only 4 weeks.  I attribute this to literally being horizontal the whole time post-surgery.  I didn’t really venture out too much, but I did work from home a lot, with the leg up, ice pack attached, and kept busy online (which made the time fly by).
• Physical therapy: Last time I started it about 2 months post surgery.  This time it will be 6 weeks out.  And I am going to pretty much do it by myself, considering I’ve already done it. I start on Thursday.
• Getting back to walking: timewise, I am 2 weeks ahead of schedule, just like everything else I mentioned so far, but I am pretty much where I was last time.  One week after getting back to walking, I am doing pretty well walking in the boot, and can almost walk without crutches, but I have done that a bit in the house and got stranded.  I still can tweak things a little that make it difficult to put weight on my foot.  I remember that same thing happening the last time too.
• Standing shower: It was almost 2 months out before I took my first standing shower.  The shower chair is certainly a blessing, but it gets old after a while.  Yesterday I figured out how to get into the bathtub for a shower, but then I couldn’t figure out how to get out!  It was scary because I’m really worried about slipping and twisting my ankle and I have so little flexibility in my foot right now.  I just kind of had to do it, but I needed to put the shower chair back in there today so I could navigate my way out of there more easily, without stress.

So if history is any indicator, I expect that I should be walking pretty well sometime by the end of July.  I will be moving from the boot to an ankle brace at the end of this week.  That will definitely require crutches for another 2 -3 weeks.

It’s nice to know this will soon be behind me.  And even better to know I’m out of ankles and both of them are fixed!