Best Foot Forward.

Tagged: physical-therapy

A meme from the movie What About Bob?: Bill Murray in an orange life vest, lashed to the mast of a sailboat with rope, captioned above 'The journey of a thousand miles' and below 'begins with baby steps.'
Day 48Boot / Transition

These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

I am free of the bitchsticks! Or at least, mostly. The weekend errand and breakfast run still required them, but I'm able to hobble around the house without…

Pain 2/10 PWB crutches · boot · walking
An animated Looney Tunes clip of Bugs Bunny sobbing dramatically, fat cartoon tears streaming from both eyes.
Day 30Boot / Transition

The Distance

Let me be straight with you: today the foot genuinely hurts. There's a deep, insistent throb in the heel bone this morning, well past the dull background ache…

Pain 5/10 NWB boot-transition · mindset · pain
A flat-style illustration of a woman with dark hair in a bun and a magenta top, reaching up to arrange a horizontal roadmap on a wall: five colorful chevron arrows, each stamped with a clock, connected by dashed lines to note cards above and below.
Day 29Boot / Transition

Time Is on My Side

I am, at my core, a person who needs a finish line. Hand me a goal and a timeline that ends somewhere I can actually point at, and I will happily grind toward…

NWB boot-transition · weight-bearing · timeline
The 'Conspiracy Keanu' meme: a wide-eyed young man with tousled hair looking bewildered, captioned 'THE UPDATE IS' across the top and 'THAT THERE IS NO UPDATE' across the bottom.
Day 28Boot / Transition

The Waiting

Some days the headline writes itself. Today's headline is: nothing to report. The update is that there is no update. Exactly four weeks ago I came home from…

NWB boot-transition · weight-bearing · physical-therapy
A meme captioned 'my body after doing absolutely nothing all day,' showing two blue x-ray-style illustrations of a human figure with glowing red pain points at the neck, knees, and ankle.
Day 27Boot / Transition

Scar Tissue

Facebook did the thing today where it reminds you who you were nine years ago. And nine years ago today, I was parked in a chair a lot like the one I'm in now,…

NWB boot-transition · scars · comparison