This Running Journey: Screeching Halt!!!

I knew when I went in for surgery on February 12th that my journey was going to be sidelined for a while. What I didn't know until I went back for a "post op" meeting on the 22nd was that it was going to come to a screeching halt. The surgery was pretty uneventful I thought and when I got home with the post op instructions there was nothing to indicate that it was anything other than routine and the doctor didn't tell my sister, Donna, anything to indicate otherwise.

The first night was rough because I had decided that I wasn't going to take any pain pills. Big Mistake! I was in pain and awake all night long and din't want to take anything on an empty stomach. When I shared this with a friend who had ankle surgery not long ago told me the best advice he was given was to, "stay ahead of the pain". I wish I had received the same advice because once I did get started on medication the pain was much more manageable and became less every day.

My release instructions said, "use crutches with partial weight bearing as tolerated for 2-7 days". After about a week I started using just one crutch and then just a cane. I even did some walking around the house with neither. When I got to my "post op" meeting the first thing out of the doctors mouth was, "where are your crutches". I went through what I have just written with him and he was emphatic because of the additional surgery that they did when they were in there, "micro fracture surgery" he wanted me on crutches at least until he saw me in six weeks. WHAT? Where were the instructions for post op that included this additional surgery. I did some research online and my big hope now is that I didn't mess anything up by being off crutches too soon. They took an X-ray that day but nobody told me anything about it. They just said to make an appointment for 6 weeks out so that will be April 4th.

Thus the title of this post, "Screeching Halt". Additionally one doctor told Donna and another told me that I probably shouldn't run in the future. I guess that decision will be made, "in the future". Today I take the next step and meet with the Physical Therapy people to set up appointments for 3 x a week for the next month. Once that is decided I will start going to Planet Fitness in Turlock and doing what I can to try to maintain or regain some type of fitness.