3 March 2010 - 11:45Das Boot

Well the cast if off…and I will spare you the details of the amount of dead skin on the bottom of my foot and length of my leg hairs that were lurking underneath my cast. But needless to say it was pretty gross. The doctor took a new set x-rays which revealed everything was healing how it should. The fracture has still not fully healed, but it is well on its way!

For the month of March, I am in the giant black boot I have come to know so well over the past few years. The boot will only be used doing the day to keep my foot supported. Three times a day I need to do exercises to increase movement, strength and range of movement of my ankle. When April hits, I am back in real shoes….my left shoes have been missing me. My plan for the month of April is just to get back into exercise by walking and biking, and then in May I will start to get back into running. In May I go back for my final x-rays to ensure the healing is complete. So June is when I am planning to return to soccer, but I will take it easy if I need to. I don’t want to rush back into soccer and risk re-injury.

Surprisingly, there is not as much loss of muscle and there doesn’t seem be that much difference.