I don’t usually use cut tags, but these photos of my leg in varying stages of healing are a little gruesome.  The first photo was taken right after they removed the post-surgical bandages, so it’s a week healed at that point.  The most recent one is how it looks now.  There are no photos of the injury before surgery.  As I lay in the emergency room, Billy offered to take some for me, but I discovered that I deeply believe that no man should have to look upon his own bones.  I declined.

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I’m completely off crutches. I can walk without the boot, but it’s slow and uncomfortable and my foot is still really swollen, so I stick with the boot most of the time. I don’t really need the cane, but it takes my weight off the injured leg so it makes things easier and I figure it’s probably a good idea to reduce the amount of stress it has to bear, at least until the wound is completely healed.

I’m healing well. I can walk on my injured leg now, albeit slowly and primarily with the big black space boot. I could probably manage walking without it if not for the swelling that prevents me from flexing my ankle much.

I’m tired of crutches. It’s been startling to discover just how much using them wears me out. Yesterday we went to refill some prescriptions and after crutching to and from the store, I had to beg off running other errands just because of exhaustion. I’m not quite healed enough to leave them behind, but I think next week I’ll try just using a cane for any short stretches and only use the crutches for long distances. I move really slowly without them anyway.