Month: April 2015

I can walk in sneakers without limping!  Today I walked a mile and my calf felt pretty good, except on the uphills, it felt a little tight and I had to slow down.  Four days ago, I walked a half mile and was pretty sore afterwards.  The other day I discovered that I can ride my bike pain free.  I’m still sore in the mornings, but after some stretching and massage, I can get around as normal around the house.  I’m back to cooking and doing chores as usual.  I will try out the elliptical trainer tomorrow to see how that feels.  I’m so thankful that after 3 weeks, I’ve reached this point already.  Yay for answered prayers for healing!  Yesterday, I walked down 5 flights of stairs in a parking garage with no problem (I took the elevator back up), I just had to take it slower than normal.  I will still have to stay away from high impact activity for a little while longer, but I prefer walking/biking/elliptical training anyways.

In Mia’s eye news, we are down to 3 times a day on the Prednisolone (corticosteroid) eye drops, still dilating 3 times a day, and using drops for her ocular pressure twice a day.  We have a follow-up appointment on April 14th.  Things are looking good.  After Friday, we will take the Prednisolone down to 2 times per day.

We are making progress, but now all 3 kids have colds, some with fevers.  Hopefully these colds will not linger for too long.

I can limp without crutches!  Whoo-hoo!  I still need to use a crutch/crutches if I’ll be on my feet for very long, but it’s nice to be able to “walk” on my own again.  I’m still pretty sore and the muscle is still very tight, but I’m making some progress every day.  Keeping a compression bandage on has really helped.  I realized that I had been wrapping it too loosely, under the direction of the Nurse Practitioner that I first saw (“don’t wrap it too tightly” and she wrapped it pretty loosely).  Then over the weekend, we visited some relatives and Uncle Dan, the PA, wrapped it more firmly, but still not too tight, and that really helped with the pain and since then I’ve been making good progress.  I still can’t flatten my foot , but I’ll get there in the next week(s) or so if I keep working it.

The bruising is still purple around my ankle and bottom of my leg, but that is starting to fade finally too.  My ankle is a little sore, I assume from the bruising.  I’m still icing it, especially after being up for a while, and elevating it when I’m sitting.  I cooked dinner last night for the first time in a while.  That felt great, but I was pretty tired and a little sore afterwards.

I’ve also been able to start doing some light strength work with a resistance band and pointing and flexing my foot.  That also is helping with my flexibility.  No standing calf raises yet, but I’ll work my way up there.  Muscle tears are no joke!  I’ve lost a lot of strength and flexibility in that muscle and I know it will take a while to get back to where I was, but that is the goal.  After that, the goal will be preventing this from happening again by building more strength and increasing my flexibility.  I can hardly wait to be able to take walks around the neighborhood again!  It’s only 1.3 miles, but I know I’ll have to build back up to it.