Today is the day....my 1st PO

Today I go to the DR for the first time since surgery! Progress! It's hard to lay around and let people serve you..............but then again I am the Queen Swag!


I celebrated my 56th birthday and my nephews, Jax's first birthday yesterday. Because of Facebook I had a ton of birthday wishes..how sweet! I am still trying to upload some pic of Ellie's decoration and my yard decorations. I am determined to make it happen.


Yesterday I had my first outing since surgery July 30th. Yes, I left the house. First things first! My grey hair got covered with color! Now that is medicine in itself because I was feeling pretty good after that!
 Next Kim took  me to a 5pm movie to see "SALT". We thought we would beat the crowd and we did. Of course the theater in the theater was to my left down a longgggggggg hall. Then it was another left to the end of another longgggggggg hall and into the theater. Of course my crutches moved me along slowly and my heart was racing by the time I got there. Next, Kim decided that he wanted to go up to the mid section to view the movie. Good grief, this is suppose to be my day so I should be able to view the movie from the seat I want!  But NOOOOOOOO I hobbled and took one jump at a time on the good leg until we reached the half way point. With a slight breather I  then crutched myself to the center of the row. I'm sure glad I stopped at the bathroom first............how many people do you think offered to hold a door.....................zippo!


We had dinner at ANZI'S pizza  following the movie...............it was a good birthday!


TO BE CONTINUED:
Hi,

 I just got back from seeing Dr Anderson. I did not have a normal Achilles rupture.  The Achilles detached from the bone on the back of my heal. He said this is very unusual especially at my age. A surgeon may see this once in his career. He did 12 of these last year. The surgery was 2 hours. He went in an made a large incision, cleaned up the scar tissue along the heal, cut off the big heel spur, drilled a hole through the bone in my heal, sutured the tendon together and then pushed the suture through the hole so the tendon would lay against my heel bone again  and then he anchored the other end of the suture in a screw that is placed in the bottom of my heel/foot. Full recovery will take about 1 year.

These are the pictures you see. 

He repositioned my foot and place a hard cast on it.  I will need to wear it for 2-3 more week without weight bearing. When I go back he will remove the cast and I will wear a boot which then I can bear weight. 

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