Guest guest Posted August 11, 2007 Report Share Posted August 11, 2007 Hi all, Most of you know that I had ankle fusion surgery in January and that I've had to deal with an inflamation of the ankle since then. It turns out that the ankle pain was a result of the swelling that is a sometime after effect of the surgery. I found that if I bind the ankle tight in a high cut boot it can swell and I feel very little pain. We are in the middle of a heat wave here, and Thursday we decided to go to the mountains to escape the heat ( rather than spend all day watching judge shows.) Feeling good I decided to hike a nature trail with my daughter who would have taken us down the side of a pretty big hill to the basin of a waterfall. I had my hi-tek walking stick and stuff and set off. About 2/3 of the way there the trail got really rocky and was doing quite a number on my ankle, my legs were getting rubbery too, so I turned around and started back- 2/3 of the way back uphill. I made it with little problem other than stopping every coupla hundred yards to catch my breath. Since then feel the burn is grossly inadequate means of describing the state of my legs, they throb. They throb a little less each day but oh gosh I haven't felt like this since I had Jim Fixx fantasies. The other cool thing in my life is when I got back from destroying my legs, there was a message from the head hunters that I have been offered a writing job. Looks like I'll be leaving SSI and going back to work. Keep on pluggin Ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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