keep positive and active, while helping my broken foot to heal

My ankle hurts once in a while, and the lump is still there, but its not getting bigger and its not specifically worrying to doctor types.

I swim once or twice a week.
I walk to work and back (3.2km each way) or I cycle and i stand a lot at work.
I volunteer at the theatre at least once a week usually.
I’m pretty sure that the weird tingling will stick around for a while, but i’ve worn heels for long stretches of time, and i’ve done almost everything except ballet and climbing on this foot of mine with no pain other than what one might expect from a normal and healthy foot now so i think its as repaired as it is going to be.

It is amazing how much these things affect a person.
I will forever have more compassion and consideration for those who have injured themselves. i will also not bother to ask them their story over again about the event of injury… its a tiresome tale or was in my case.

I went to the ultrasound place yesterday and left feeling…. um.

the technician agreed with me that whatever little bugger is, its not especially mobile…

I can’t tell if she was foreboding or simply russian… in any case i want to know whats up so that i can stop worrying that i have a strange muscular cancer etc. when my ankle gets all whiney.

boo to bumps.

Ew GROSS!

There is a chunk of something under the skin of my left calf… its probably a benign lipoma, possibly growing around a chunk of bone that has migrated from my broken bone in the foot… things do float around in the bloodstream.
It sort of uncomfortable.
I talked to my dad on the phone and he said that i need to go into the doctors and see someone about this asap.
i’m thinking monday.
its probably nothing, maybe just a piece of gum someone chewed and then stuck under my skin… it will probably re-absorb.

well… just to the bus stop but tonight was the first time i have done that and not stopped abruptly with an ‘ow’, and i didn’t realize it until i got onto the bus!

I am also able to fit my foot into aLL of my shoes now which is wicked even though all i want to wear is flip flops and its too cold.

Now I just have to figure out what to do with my walking cast… it was spendy and sort of smells like feet now… not really.

I am totally keeping the cane though. the cane is the bee’s knee’s.

I love my bike, and i’m SO EXCITED to be completely healed and therefore to be able to put on the awesome new bike toe straps i won through jills not wanting them from her awesome raffle score at the bike polo tournament. :) I can’t put them on yet or i’ll get my ankle into more trouble.

I’m so excited to bike now to work and back even if it means getting totally winded up the hill because i’m cardio challenged.

I am starting to feel myself feeling better and i even started to jog across a crosswalk today which was sharply noticed by my foot… but surprised me more because it was an automatic thing i did. :)

Jill said that maybe we could play bike polo together for practice for her, now that might be a good reason to buy a bike, but MORE TO THE POINT=> Free new toeclips reward for being more agile!!! My toe straps are white not polka dot but these ones are ALMOST as cool :)

I’m SO happy that things are starting to not suck.

My foot is HEALING really and truly and so is my very stubborn ankle which has given me the most trouble since i could but weight on the whole assembly.

I walked a bunch this weekend while visiting Seattle, and it was good up to a point when my foot was just so tired that it wanted to go home. :P

Oh well… i have been biking to work a little and today was the real test becasue i had to bike all the way up the darn hill where i live on the way home and its a BIKCH! I have to do that every day for a while to rebuild my cardio but hey, at least its on the way home and on the way to work i can just basically coast. :)

I even figured out what street to cross at today to get to work the most efficiently. :)

I am excited to go to whistler this weekend, i hope to be able to get my hiking boots on and do some lightweight hiking out there before the season closes in on us and we are awash with west coast rain once more.

Come on little foot, you can do it!

I am walking almost completely normally now, which is hecka cool, but its also a little daunting since there are big lists of things that i was putting off and now i should really get at them. :S Oh well.

No more canes or crutches or moon-boots or borrowed roommate sneakers (she’s 2 sizes bigger in the feet than me), Look out world, i’m on the move!

I’m hoping that another week from now i’m feeling golden and no longer swollen. :)

Life is good if you let it.

Next wednesday will be the 6 week-iversary of my metatarsalbreakage and i feel great-ish.

I guess its good that i’m younger because i’m bouncing back.
I’ve been wearing shoes and walking lots although there are still some shoes i can’t get my foot into its nice to be out of the moon boot.

I biked to work for the first time today since the break and WOW! Its not that hard.

My ankle is bitchin and really still as swollen as when i first did the injuriousness but other than that, i’m ok.
I walk and work and am pretty much normalized except for a slight limp and occasional desire to sit down and put that sucka up in the air.

I hven’t gone on any hikes or done anything sketchy-scary like that but i’m hoping that in another month or so i’ll be about ready to think about maybe possibly climbing a bit.

I can’t beleive its only been 6 weeks. It feels like FOREVER!!!!

Its great to be biking again though… i feel so moblie and self sufficent that my mind is blown from the inside out!

Happy day!
Now i just need to rebuild my cardio!

I have worn sneakers two days in a row to work and back and all day long in between. My feet feel pretty okay in them although i have the shoe on my busted foot as unlaced as i can with it still being knotted. :) I am really excited to get paid tomorow so i can go and buy some cheapy cheap skate shoes that are nice and padding-y to wear for the next few weeks while the bone callous goes down.

Its been exactly 5 weeks now and i am pretty certain that the healing part of this is coming to a close, that my bone is pretty happily mended and now just needs to recover and start feeling normal-er.

I walk with a cane, slowly and carefully these days, the slower the better.

I hope that i can keep myself from doing anything too crazazay, i’m kind of planning to bring my bike home for next week so i can do a couple of bike rides and re-build my strength.

Hooah!

No i dont get to give up the cane, but i did bust right through the second cane end yesterday. Today i picked up a two pack that look sturdier but its something i guess i never really thought about having to buy… but i did. hmm…

I have been motoring around quite a bit. Last night i realized that my foot was actually ‘HURTING’ not just complaining HURTING and so i think i have resigned myself to being nicer to it. I want it to heal and heal well…

I am still going camping because i have a wicked new sleeping bag, a cuddly boyfriend with a campsite booked and a certain love of the outdoors which hasn’t lately been nurtured so i’ll go but i’ll be generous with myself about how much i do.

I would REALLY REALLY like to go swimming this weekend again, but in an outdoors kind of way. go me!

I went to the brittania community centre pool today and WOW!

I am so hooked!

The pool is clean and friendly and SO close to where i live that it won’t be hard to get myself up off the couch to get a swim in more often. There are safety stairs near the door to the change room and everything was within my comfort zone.

I don’t know if the water will actually do anything positive for my foot, but i know that it is positive for me to be in a medium where i can actually get some CARDIO!!!

I swam lengths today for literally 20 minutes while my wash load was in at the laundromat down the street and then i dried off and put my laundry in the dryer and read. I know it was a short trip but i wanted it to be that way in case the pool was super sad and depressing but NOPE!

I am so excited to be in this community! :)

I think i’ll plan to go back tomorow evening once i’ve made dinner etc. :)

Now though i have to go and cook up some dirty dishes and put myself to bed. What a fabulous and productive day.