aren’t really liveable. I am not a person that embraces medicines. I don’t like to take them and I am inconsistent about taking them when I do. Thus, I have given a go with my ankle for almost 5 months now, with simply wearing sensible shoes (sigh…....) and simply soldiering on.

Today I began a different approach. The day to day living of walking slowly, with a limp, one foot pointed out to the side, simply isn’t acceptable as an activity of daily living. When I laid in bed this morning I thought “Gosh, even just waking up and not having been on my ankle in hours, the pain is a level 4. I can’t really live day to day all day with a level four pain.”

So, I rooted around and found the prescription for naproxon. My foot doctor had said to take one in the morning and one in the evening for two weeks. (Originally. I did that and at the end of the two weeks my ankle was not cured, but much, much better. I could walk normally, for example.) I took one this morning, and think I will keep up with two a day for the recommended two weeks and see if I can walk properly again. If I can I will cut back to one a day and see if all remains the same.