I am going crazy!! I have really good days where I can walk w/o my crutch in sneakers, but then i have bad days like yesterday where i cant walk w/o my boot on and the crutch. I know i am supposed to have good days and bad days, but I feel like I havent made any progress in 2 weeks! Even when i can walk in my sneaks w/o the crutch I still am not even close to normal and i feel like that hasnt improved either. i am doing everything my pt told me to do. I know this is going to take time but I am getting soooooo frustrated!

brakepedal,
Don't give up. I know how you feel. I was so up after PT, but yesterday is was up and moving (sitting in the car, eating,sitting back in the car) and by last nite I couldn't move and my foot was soooo big. Taking it easy today, but again foot is swollen. I'm hoping it will be better tomorrow. So we can be miserable together. Keep you spirits up. we are here with you.
Mary

"Make that a party of 3 please." Did great at PT and home yesterday. Today I am swollen and painful, not wanting to put any weight on it. Ugh
jane

thanks yall. I am feeling better right now. sun. was a bad day but mon. was great. I know this is going to take time but i cant help but wonder how long. On bad days I get really depressed and I start thinking am i going to be like this forever? Im only 22 I dont want a bad limp the rest of my life. I hate feeling like that. I try to talk myself out of it like telling myself it could be worse and at least I can limp walk, some people loose their legs. Learning to walk and all that is hard mentally as well as physically. I think it may actually be harder mentally. At least i found this sight so I can talk to people feeling the same.thanks everyone.
Margel

Believe me, I and many others on this site know how depressing it can be just waiting for progress! When you have a bad injury or surgery, it seems like you will never be normal, but chances are good that you will be much better than you think! The limping thing is hard. I was in pt yesterday and I was thinking to myself that I was walking really well. My pt commented that I was limping and I didnt even realize it!!! I am older than you (Im in the 30-something crowd) but I feel too young to walk like this forever!
What really helped me is starting to swim. I have much fewer limitations in the pool and I can really get a good workout!

Take care and have patience!
Diane

Ok, so here's my perspective (feel free to remind me of it when I am having a bad day)

I broke my neck when I was 18. I was told I probably wouldn't be able to walk again, but if I did that my competive days were over. I was a jr. Olympian, so this was a major blow to me in many ways. I am having a harder time dealing with this friggin foot stuff then I did with the neck. With the neck I got determined and angry to "come back" and prove all the docs wrong. I even got into sprots again. I won that battle and have few issues because of that injury.

Now with the foot I am really getting frustrated that something so relatively minor is causing me such fits. I know I shouldn't complain but... Maybe it is because I actully knew I was "done for" with the neck and every sensation I gained kept me pumped up to do more and it somehow reinforced the will to keep going? I don't know. I just know that my psche is having a harder time dealing with this foot than I ever remember my neck causing. I am in the late 30's club but still think of myself as that young, fit athlete (which I am not). I need to be always "ahead of schedule" and making remarkable progress.My goals keep getting pushed furhter back. So now I doing the "snap out of it" battle.

To me, the foot thing is harder to deal with and other folks comments about "Youre still not better?"(not here, but friends and family who broke an ankle, etc) are not helping.

Thankfully, I think today is going to be an OK day

jane