"Scoots" update

Here's an update on my broken foot saga...

The first couple weeks of the year I continued to use my scooter - it was great!  But after I had the scooter for a month, it was time to return it. (You can see why I got the nickname "Scoots" at work.)

Going to work with the crutches was MISERY compared to the scooter.  I was slow.  It was awkward trying to carry anything (who ever thought I'd miss that silly basket on the scooter).  It was just a pain. 

I had my third visit with my doctor 6 weeks after I broke my foot.  This visit didn't go as well as I had hoped.  We did X-rays again and after looking at the X-rays my doctor started telling me the stuff that he had already said at my 3 week visit.  I had to remind him that we were actually at 6 weeks, not 3.  He said that my foot was still broken.  It was healing however not as quickly as he would have liked.  He basically said that he believed that the extra calcium I was taking to help speed the process along, was being sucked out by Max (pun intended).  He didn't want to increase my calcium intake even more due to the kidney stone that I had experienced and I am not willing to stop nursing.  So, it means that this healing process will just go slower.

He gave me some more physical therapy exercises to do at home (which, unfortunately, I've been awful about doing).  He said that when I was just hanging at home doing things like watching TV, that I could take the boot off and that I could stop using crutches and put all my weight on the boot.  WAHOO!!!! 

It's been awesome to be able to take the boot off around the house (I put it off if I am going to doing a lot of standing or walking) and then to not have to use crutches outside the house.

It's now been 8 1/2 weeks.  My doctor said that at this point I could stop wearing the boot and start wearing shoes that had sufficient support - either tennis shoes or boots.  I have to admit, that makes me kind of nervous.  I still feel some soreness after days where I'm on my feet a lot.  There are times where I step wrong and feel a little twist of pain.  All of it is completely bearable but I just don't want to start walking around in shoes if it's too early.  It's not worth the risk of injuring myself again (I would go CRAZY to have to go through this long process again.)  So there's the nervousness and then there's the wardrobe issue.  It's a lot more obvious at work why I would be wearing my airboot.  If I show up in tennis shoes on the bottom and professional dress on top, that raises more eyebrows and takes more explaining. :)  I haven't quite decided what I am going to do about that yet.  For now, I'm just going to put off the decision.

So there's the update.  I'm still broken but not as broken as I used to be.