Yesterday I went to the doctors new office expecting to see him again... it turned out that he was on vacation!

Instead, I ended up seeing one of his students that took this photo of the doctor and me our first time we met in his old office! Fortunately it played out this way so I could get this awesome picture for my post! Hehe!

The doctor thought it was hilarious that even though I was the injured patient, I was still far more physically capable than probably anyone he knows! 😝

I showed him this stretch by balancing on my broken ankle first, and then switched feet for the picture.

I was extremely excited yesterday since I was finally getting my cast off and going to see and free my beloved limb! As well as thinking I was going to see my doctor again!

I was pretty mind-blown how much my leg had transformed in merely 2 weeks! 

Even with the slow atrophying from 18-22 months of living casually with a broken ankle... and the extra atrophy from not being able to move my ankle at all for 2 weeks straight.  It was actually a lot healthier than I thought at first glance.  I had my foot and leg shaved for the surgery, plus lots of iodine residues left over when they cleaned up, and even the signature of confirmation the doctor drew was still there. Not even 2 days without the cast and I'm already regaining my mobility back slowly with lots of (LOVE) resting, massage, stretching, and comfrey!

After the nurse removed the cast, she took all of the stitches and staples out as well, which is why some parts are taped. I discovered they don't sterilize the equipment they use to remove the stitches because it's cheaper to buy new ones and through away the used ones... I thought that was insane so I asked if I could keep the tools and they gave me everything except the tiny staple remover which ended up disposed of.

Hard to even imagine how many of these get thrown out every day... I saw so many people waiting to get their casts off the same day as me!

With my cast finally off, I took advantage to put on a bunch of comfrey immediately to my ankle!  Then the doctors student came in to examine how I was healing, to decide whether I was gonna need another more solid cast or the removable boot. He said that everything was doing great and that I actually begin to try and gain some mobility for my ankle, as it would help activate the cartilage!  Even though at that moment, I had practically no mobility except of my toes which was quite an interesting sensation, hehe.  I took advantage to ask him for that first picture I mentioned! As soon as everything was good to go, while on his way out he told us to wait, and that someone was going to come and bring us the boot!

This boot was surprisingly far bigger, heavier, and more uncomfortable than the cast, however the fact that I could take it off whenever I want was a relief! It also works great to hold my comfrey poultice wraps in place!

The guy that came to show me how to use the boot and fill out the paperwork for it was extremely funny and gave my dad and I a laugh the entire time we hung out with him. 😁 After showing us how to use the boot he took us to the check out where we were going to set up our next appointment/check up with the doctor! Funnily enough my appointment was scheduled for exactly 6 weeks later on Valentine's Day! This will be my first Valentine's Date ever as well as the most meaningful Valentine's Date ever! Since I don't really care for holidays and would never actually celebrate or get excited about it otherwise! Hehe. 😁

This is a picture of my friend Lucca, brother Lucca, and me finishing dinner with the family the day before I got my cast off! As you can see Lucca is rocking the new Steemit logo with the shirt he got at SteemFest2!

I am ending this post here because too much happened today to include all in this same post and would probably be too much, hehe!

SteemOn and thank you all for the healing vibes!

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