True! Your foot will likely be both weak and swollen, and when a friend turns up to take you out for lunch in a freak snowfall you will end up wearing big wool ski socks inside your most adjustable comfort sandals. And hobbling.
Also the first time you look at a down elevator you w ll freeze in panic, which foot goes first? Then bolt for the elevator.
I know you’ve been using the knee scooter, but for anyone just reading through this now - I did 12 weeks non-weight bearing on a reconstructed knee, so a knee scooter was obviously a no-go. Maybe I’m freakishly strong, but I had no issues with crutches, including working in guest services at a hotel.
Where I think newbies go wrong with crutches is they either aren’t strong enough or were never taught to not use the top of the crutch as a weight bearing surface under motion. You need to use your arms with the top of the crutch as a resting place or a balance saver.
So sorry for your injury! I broke my Tibia last year in a fall and was on crutches for 10 weeks. It’s definitely no fun.
If you have any stairs you need to navigate I suggest ‘butt scooting’ up and down then using your good leg to push up. It’s not very fast but it’s a lot safer then trying to crutch up them.
Thanks all! I’ve started physio (for range of motion, as I’m still non weight-bearing), which will hopefully help with the tight tendons/muscles. The surgeon told me I will be on a progressive return to weight-bearing program, aka will only be allowed to put partial weight on the foot.
I’m going to New York for a night in a few weeks, as I had theatre tickets I wasn’t willing to miss out on. Fingers crossed it goes well!
Just splurge on a taxi in NYC. The subway system old and can involve long walks underground. It was cobbled together out of half a dozen competing subterranean railway lines from the 19th century. Sometimes you have to walk blocks underground. Not like the Toronto subway at all.
Officially back on two feet (with one still in the walking cast)…but it’s progress. The surgeon says no riding for a year, which isn’t ideal, but doable (with some exceptions for my retiree).
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