Three Weeks!

I can't believe it's been 3 weeks since the surgery. I'm walking much better. I have looked on youtube and different websites for physical therapy and have been doing them. I talked to the dad of a friend of Lacey's at school and he's a physical therapist. He said, "You don't want to lose the instrinsic muscle strength in your toes". I thought, "Now, why didn't Dr. P tell me this?" I mean, this is something that could affect me the rest of my life. You know, like be an annoyance.

The steri-strips are coming off more slowly now. When I kick in the pool, I can feel a little bit of pulling. Now, though, the pool is closed until next Monday and I don't think I'll be able to stand it! I was doing SO good!! I've been kicking halfway and then walking to the other end and back to the middle and then kicking back to the starting point. Then I'll go from the end to the middle on 1 breath, stop and go again the rest of the way. Nine laps total yesterday doing that and 9 laps today doing that. Oh, and I did 1 lap of freestyle. Believe it or not, that was easier than breaststroke because the kick for breaststroke makes the water move the steri-strip and hurt a little.

Here's a not so pretty picture (the toes) of my foot at 3 weeks: