Baby steps.

Saw Dr. Nguyen today.  He gave me the permission to walk around the house without the boots.  So when I got home, upstairs, I took off the boot and took baby steps on the soft carpet.  Yeah.  A major milestone..

He also took off 1/2 height off the wedge.

I just tried to go up and down the stairs slowly.  Feeling good, but naturally I do need to be careful.  But still a good feeling.

After all, it's 2 months since the DAY and 7.5 weeks since the surgery.

The scar is healing nicely.  A few hard  bumps along the scar -- inside, but Dr. Nguyen said that it's normal and just massage it nicely...

Yeah, I want to shout...

Crutchfree!

For the last couple days, I walked without crutches... Still with the boot.   Just last week this time, I was still hanging on the crutch or the knee scooter.   Last Thursday, after hopping my way from level 2 of the hospital's parking structure for an appt with Dr. Trong Nguyen's office, I was pretty tired and had to call Roy to rescue me.  During the office though, he thought that I can put more weight, standing as long as the boot is on.  The night before, I read a number of blogs about how much progress people has made, I had a bit more encouragement there from the doctor, and thus the next day, I decided to go to one crutch.  Phil (the physical therapist) was a bit surprised on Friday when I came in with only one crutch....

Then Monday, with a cane...

Then today, look Ma, no cane, no crutch.

I returned the knee scooter yesterday.  Almost 6 weeks!  -- Let just say it's 6 weeks ($210!)  If I were to buy that from Amazon, it would be $450 or so and I had to store it some where.  Just 2 weeks ago, that Roy made this seat for my knee that looks really nice... We keep the seat though.

In the shower, when I tried to apply some pressure to the left foot (the injured one), by gently standing on it, I felt the tight tendon, so I don't want to push that!

Phil thought that I could do 100% weight bearing after another week -- by doing calf raises...

My scar seems to be healing fine as well.  This one is the most recent, taken last night.  My leg looks like a chicken leg.  ew.

 

This is taken last week - on Monday or so, after I peeled off the tapes.