{"id":297,"date":"2017-02-01T17:04:01","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T17:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/?p=297"},"modified":"2021-05-18T21:42:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T21:42:22","slug":"disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/01\/disappointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don’t know what I was expecting. I just know it wasn’t this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was quite excited when I got up this morning. Today is the day of the final cast removal. We’ve gone through two weeks of ankle elevated above the level of the heart, two weeks in a cast with no weight bearing, a week of minimal weight bearing, and a week of increasing the weight bearing while wearing a cast and walking shoe. Six weeks of either incapacitation or very limited mobility coming to an end. Huzzah!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The cast is die<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I had already worked out in my mind that I was going to do the William Wallace thing and yell “Freedom!” at the top of my lungs as we left the doctor’s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all of our conversations about follow up and rehab the word “boot” was never mentioned. Until today. Gut punch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know why it brought me up short. Surely I did not expect to leave the doctor’s office and sprint to the car — in reality, sprinting has been in fairly short supply since well before the injury — but I had geared myself up for the six week period. And nothing more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The boot is huge, even larger than the cast. The good news is I can take it off at night, and she wants me to begin walking a little without it while I’m at home. Her consistent example is peeing and I’m really not sure what the urine obsession is all about. I will follow her suggestion and walk without it at night when I need to go to the bathroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bad news is she wants me to wear it for six MORE<\/em> weeks. I was not emotionally prepared for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll get over it, but there is no joy in Mudville tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six more %*&$ing weeks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know what I was expecting. I just know it wasn’t this. I was quite excited when I got up this morning. Today is the day of the final cast removal. We’ve gone through two weeks of ankle elevated above the level of the heart, two weeks in a cast with no weight bearing, … Continue reading Disappointment<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehalfcenturian.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}