Fifty shades... of bruising

Well!! Appointment at the fracture clinic to look at my Achilles' tendon this morning.

No tear, no rupture... just one heck of a serious bit of bruising - as the evidence above shows. So, cast off, keep on with the crutches but I can walk (carefully and with the aid of the crutches if I need to go far). Shuffle Bum and the Twenty Stairs have played their final concert thankfully.

That said, late yesterday evening the ankle started to hurt for the first time - it had been mostly numb up until that point - and it's continued to throb since. I've exercises to do courtesy of the hospital physiotherapist - who I've to go back and see as soon as I get an appointment - and some of them kill my calf muscle that received the biggest part of the impact but I can live with it. I have to go back to the surgeon in three weeks time and hopefully after that I should be ok. to drive again. I'll keep seeing the physio regularly - probably my normal one as the hospital one can be a bit delayed apparently, but.. we'll see.

Oh, and my physio and my eldest daughter have banned me from going to the stables for at least two weeks so that I don't do anything that might strain or injure the ankle further :( Talk about being ganged up upon :S

Many thanks to all of you who posted me their best wishes for today. They obviously helped.

Blessings xx