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So,  another week is down.   Which means what?

It means that next week I can start putting weight on my foot. It means that I can start hobbling towards an ability to walk.  I might be less inclined to hang out at home when I can move around relatively independently.  I'm trying to not think about set backs I might encounter.

A lot of my friends are physically inclined, and like posting about it... constantly... on Facebook. It doesn't really bother me, but its a bit of a jab every time I see those motivational "you have no excuse" meme's that say get off your ass.  Gee, I wish I could.  Granted I am sometimes rather lazy, and have better intentions than successes,  I typically do a lot of physical activity.

I have a marathon training schedule, but I don't know if I can start on it very soon. So far my plan is to start walking ( I have to walk the dogs anyways) and swimming and some hot yoga, and then I can deal with it from there, right?  I'll have to go through physio and such, but that's usually a weekly thing with self directed work outs on my own.

I've been getting restless and therefore grumpy, with my moods swinging up and down. I feel horrible for it,  I can wake up and spend most of the day really content and happy, doing lots of things and then suddenly I'm pissed off. Or vice versa. 

3 weeks down...3 weeks left?

So,

21 Days into the injury.  I went in last thursday, hoping for the best which is maybe a speedy recovery. I wanted one of those re moveable casts, so I could start having baths, maybe start doing physio, start walking around on my foot, you know, nothing too special.

So, the cast comes off and my ankle is still swollen and bruised and even I could tell it was unstable. I don't know if it is typical of this kind of injury, but they put on another cast and told me no walking on it for 3 more weeks. Oh, and the cast would come off in four and in May they'll take out the screw that is holding my ankle together. AWESOME.  Was there any progress? Well, they took the stitches out, but wouldn't wash my leg before the new cast.

So, its been a week, I have till the 14th of March off, two more weeks of not putting any weight on my foot, and then slowly I can start to hobble, then walk.

The pain is getting better, if I don't move at all and spend most of the day on the couch there's no pain at all. But I'm trying to get myself moving around more and doing things, which aside from simply making me light headed and tired ( but still unable to fall asleep right away),  it causes my ankle to start hurting, and my toes to get cold.  I think its getting better though, I mean, friday I went out to supper and a movie, and the movie was unbearable ( pain wise, though the newest instalment of the Die Hard Franchise is severely lacking) even with pain killers.

I won't really have much of an ability to train till March, I'm just bored, with no one to talk to cause all my friends have jobs.

Between casts:

I was actually doing good

So yeah, I hadn't updated in a while, and you all were thinking I fell off the wagon again.

But no, I wasn't running as much, but I was working out. Playing hockey with 4 different teams,  doing my Nike + work outs for the Xbox, getting strong and cardio'd up.

But, that all came to a crashing halt two weeks ago tomorrow.  Playing hockey with one of my teams, I  was hit into the boards and ended up breaking my ankle AND dislocating it. So now I'm sitting here unable to do ANYTHING, in a cast, unable to even put weight in on my foot.  I have a plate and pins in it, the stay at the hospital was beyond horrible ( 24 hours without food in emergency waiting for surgery + bat shit crazy old people pooping themselves and keeping me up all night).

Tomorrow I go see the surgeon. Hopefully he says I'm healing okay, and HOPEFULLY he allows me to have one of those removable walking casts so I can  a) take a proper shower/bath and b) I can slowly start getting back into things.

So no runs this spring, probably nothing till the summer at least, but Its an update, right?

I literally will be starting from ground zero.