So I’ve strugled to get over my ankle injury, I’ve made some judement calls, some I’ve got right, some I’ve got wrong.

I’m really impatient at slowing down, I just want to literrally get back onto my feet and be “over this” well I’m a bit of a slow learner and some would say I’ve been an idot.

What do I mean by this? Well part of this injury was caused due to me pushing through pain and not listerning to my body. Now more than ever I need to listen to my body and ignore outside disturbances. I’m not saying that they arn’t imporant, just right now they can wait.

I took heart that from the day of surgery I was cleared for weight baring on my ankle, which I thought was great. Being NWB (non weight bearing) is very hard for me, as it means one leg takes all my weight and I load up other parts of my body to compenstate, it’s also brutual on my arms.

I was so pleased to get advise from both my Physio and Podiatirist yesturday, I’m struggling to clarify the advise I have on discharge from hospital.

There’s a fine line between resting and staying off your ankle and limiting moblity to getting back on your feet and walking “as normally as possible”. It’s still important to regually do all your assigned exercises religiously but at the same time, not over doing it.

Because I had no significant pain for the first 48 hours I really did push myself too hard to walk on the foot and now I’m paying for it. My foot is very swollen and painful.

Yesturday I decided to NWB all day and it’s paying off, today I’m feeling a lot better as a result. It’s now time to stay NWB for another day or two as I really need to let my body recover.

I’ve just discovered iBooks on the iPad and didn’t realise you can create collections of your own files. For me it now means I can have all my rehab information and medical advise at my finger tips rather than having to fight various bits of paper.

I’m lucky to have a well equiped home office which means I can produce and manage most things. Being able to scan to PDF and print colour has been great.

So today I’m starting to get better at resting, but also keeping myself entertained (otherwise known as keep yourself busy/distracted).

I wouldn’t say i’m enjoying the time as I’m frustrated that I can’t do more, but I do accept this more readily as I know that if I don’t rest I’m going to delay my rehab which must be and is my sole focus right now.

While the frustration is eating away at me, I still consider myself to be very lucky. I’ve teamed up with a great surgical team and I have a clear diagnosies path and recovery.

Part of this is I was able to use the private health system to to this.

I still find it amazing they call this elective surgery. No one would ever want to have surgery but you reach a time where it is the only logical step to take.

I really feel for those that don’t have access to the same level of health care I have. I’ve had friends go through the public system and the time it takes to do everything is just far too long.

It’s taken me about 4 months and thats far too long, I know people that have waited a year to just see a specalist little lone get into surgery. Thankfully that part is all behind me now. All I have is to deal with now is three wounds that have stiches in them for another week and a half and a bandaged foot that must remain intact until the post surgery consult.

While for me it seems difficult now, I’m getting better at working with it and while compared to many other people I’ve got off lightly.

I work at a Christan private school, I’m very lucky that we have a number of really tallented people on staff. One of these people is the school chaplin.

He has been a great support to me as it is fair to say in my mind I’m fighting for life. Not wanting to sound too melladramatic but I’ve not had much of a life these past few months, so it’s a fight to “re-gain” life.

The chaplin has provided guideance, care and support and has helped me on a faith level.

It’s really nice to have a workplace where your faith and wellbeing plus your day to day work can be supported.