Almost back to normal

This is how my foot looks now. It's slightly deformed at the fracture site as it's raised and rounded (shown here where my hand is holding). I thought it was swelling but it's still quite raised.

Last week I finally starting walking normally. I usually walk down the city to buy my lunch and one day I found I was able to transfer weight across my full step. It was such a great moment for me to be able to walk normally again. I had the biggest grin on my face - I must have looked as though I was up to mischief as I walked down the mall. It was a mixture of relief and excitment. I had read about complications with this type of fracture and people having ongoing issues and pain on walking. But now I'm virtually pain-free. I don't have to walk behind everyone anymore and have people actually overtake me, I'm back to being the one that does the overtaking!

I've been training for two weeks now and tonight I attempted a full length routine, I'm definately out of shape. It's amazing just how quickly the body deconditions! I think I only have a few more weeks that I can use the 'foot' as an excuse with my students for not being as fit as I was two months ago.

Back in training

Yes! It was good news, my fracture was well on the way to healing and I was allowed to start walking. My calf and thigh was pretty wasted and my ankle was stiff. That was one week and 6 days ago. Walking was very difficult at first but taking those first steps without my crutches gave me such a good feeling. It took me a few days to get over my instinctual reaction of reaching for my crutches to get up and walk around. Right now I've still got a slight limp but my walking has improved heaps and seems to get better everyday. I've been warned to hold of the full return to activity for another 4 weeks. I'm even doing the annual Pedometer Challenge and I can see how my steps over the days have progressively increased as I've improved.

So I've started back at circus again, training two nights a week and teaching two nights a week. I'm just about to head off to do some laps in the pool. I haven't exactly got a show to train for at the moment but things tend to pop up without much warning so it's good to keep fit and conditioned so that I'm prepared for anything!