Day 29 - this is getting old real fast.

I'm at the hump point of this whole thing. The tentative working out logistics is over and now it's just living each day with a weight attached to my leg. I will hopefully get the cast off in 11 days and then I can drive again, hallelujah! It's such a nuisance not being able to just dash out to get things I need. Any time someone offers to take me out I have to madly think of all the things I need to do on my day release.

I've got used to feeling like I'm wearing a thick sock and a gumboot 24/7 but there are times when I want to rip the cast off. The recurrent cramps are the worst! I haven't had too much itching, that may be due to the looseness of the cast or the cool weather. My left leg looks black and blue from whacking the cast against it while I sleep.

Very attractive!

I have been really sleepy lately and I think it has been due to me not getting outside as much due to a combination of the weather and the grazes from my cast making the iWalk painful. I had a shower today and rather than crashing out on the bed after I went for a walk with Millie and I felt tonnes better. I think my brain just associates hanging out on the bed with sleep and so shuts down. 

I've discovered 'Lost Girl' on Netflix and have been binging on it and 'Supernatural' - I try and ration myself but sometimes I go crazy. I really should be multitasking and doing all the knitting projects I planned to do. Maybe tonight I'll start.

The good thing about being over halfway through my non-weightbearing is I've got the hang of the various strategies needed to get things done. I know exactly where to put my toilet frame by the shower doorway so I can use it as a support getting into and out of the shower. I can cover my leg with a rubbish bag perfectly and never get a drip on my cast. I can use the shower with the head still attached to the pole - it's adjustable height, direction and angle-wise, that's great because it gives me free hands rather than trying to cope with the shampoo lid single-handed or having to drop the shower head and risk being hit in the face with a wild torrent of water or turning off the shower and freezing. I can clip into the iWalk at speed. I can get up and down stairs at a good rate. I can hop really well. I can clean my toes with cotton buds and not crack up (almost). I still struggle to balance cleaning my teeth for the whole 2 minutes the electric tooth brush runs for and my moisturiser still hasn't made it out of my bag I took to hospital.

Crossing my fingers and toes that come the 12th of August I'll be out of the cast and into a boot. Every time I jar the foot and hope I haven't done any damage. That would just suck!