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.