My watch keeps warning me I’m at risk of falling. I know! I’m still learning how to walk again! Three foot surgeries in under a year plus a stress fracture in the other foot makes for very low walking steadiness. Sigh.
“Very Low Walking Steadiness
Your Walking Steadiness continues to be very low and you may be at high risk of falling in the next 12 months.”
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I’m still alive!
May even try to be alive outside!
I’m craving nature so have looked up transit directions to the duck pond I haven’t been to in over a year. My soul needs nourishing.
#Today #SelfCare #Anxiety #Depression #FrankenFoot #FootWound
I’m really feeling this today:
I am not fully healed
I am not fully wise
I am still on my way
What matters is that
I am moving forward
~Yung Pueblo
#Today #FrankenFoot #FootWound #Recovery #Poetry #YungPueblo
Now I’m singing a song I started while doing my wound dressing change
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So many bandages
So very many gloves
So many bandages
So very many gloves
Anybody know the Mepore brand of bandages? That’s what the hospital uses. They are not cheap.
I need to change my wound dressing but I don’t want to get up off the couch 😆
Yes, I’m crying in public. Again. I keep bringing myself to tears with gratitude.
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So grateful to have made it to the community garden today to appreciate the flowers.
🌸🐝🌼🐝🌺🐝
#Today #GratefulBee #NorthVan #LowerLonsdale #FrankenFoot #FootWound #Recovery #PhysioRehab #NatureTherapy #MentalHealth
A bee was playing hide + seek with me on my walk earlier today.
🐝🌼
I stopped to appreciate flowers in someone’s yard + noticed a fuzzy bee in one of the flowers.
Since I’m using hiking poles to practice walking outside, it was tough to get a pic. I tried but the bee was all: *no* paparazzi!
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I made it further than yesterday but had new pains. I’m walking the route I used to take to the duck pond. I’ll get there someday.
#Today #FrankenFoot #FootWound #Recovery #PhysioRehab #GratefulBee
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Thank you to those who helped me, held space, + let me cry on their shoulders over the past year+. I’m not quite myself but I feel myself emerging from the darkness.
I was severely depressed before my foot surgeries. There’s been a lot of darkness in my life + I’ve had many challenges over the years. This has been the worst physically debilitating pain I’ve endured. There were days when it felt like I would never emerge from the darkness.
Who walked the farthest distance outside today with hiking poles?
🙌 I did! 🙌
Fuck, I started to cry when I saw my watch had recorded 10 minutes of exercise. Luckily that was when a friend saw me sitting on a bench in the park. She was happy to see me out and about and walked home with me after many high-fives.
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#Today #FrankenFoot #FootWound #PhysioRehab #Recovery #GratefulBee #NorthVan
Give yourself a break
Adulting is hard
0/10 would not recommend
I doubled the amount of times I did a particular physio exercise this past week compared to the week before. It’s painful so that’s why I don’t want to do it. I told myself to do it tonight but then I didn’t. I did it 6 out of the last 7 days so I’ll count that as a win since I only managed to do it 3 times the previous week. Progress.
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