My Journal

AM:
30 min walk on treadmill 1.56 miles

I worked a normal day today and did not wear my boot. I was up and down on a ladder so the boot would have been dangerous to wear, not to mention driving on the highway in the boot would be dangerous.

AM:
46 min 2 mile walk on treadmill.

Crazytime at work. We were busy in the end and I stayed late. It was OK though, I had a good lunch. Tomorrow is offsite day and I expect to be super busy.

AM:
bench press
135-15
185-5,5
155-10,10
135-10

15 min upper body bicycle machine

Work was crazy and so is my family! A phone call would have been good just to let us know. We love you both, will call tomorrow.

AM:
lats
100-12,12
120-10
100-10

Tri’s
60-10,10,10,10

cable curls
4 sets

shoulder press machine
4 sets

dip press machine
4 sets

It was so great to be back to work today. It was a slow day and it just flowed. I was also able to cook dinner tonight! I made a pasta pesto with onions, pepper and artichoke hearts. Shrimp was the meat of choice tonight. I felt normal today ans that was nice.

AM:
We did another walk today. It was slightly under 2 miles and all was good. From there we went shopping for my wife’s holiday gift- a new apple cell phone. Then we went grocery shopping and that was when I needed to quit half way through the store. I needed to rest outside on the bench. Once hope I began to transfer over her stuff to the new phone. So far so good!

AM:
I went to the gym to weight lift!

bench press
135-15
185-5,5
135-15,12

shoulder press machine
50-10,10,10,10

Butterfly machine
70-10,10,10,10

AND THEN…

Wearing the boot we walked to the bank and then the liquor store for a bottle to bring to our neighbor’s Christmas party. I was able to walk 2.3 miles! It was great! the weather was warm and I had no issues walking. I even averaged a decent MPH time with stopping in the back to cash a check and stopping in the liquor store to shop. Not bad for the first day back.

I made it to my doctor and while parking in the garage I was worried about hitting the column so watching the column I backing up into a wall mounted exhaust fan denting my tailgate.

I did a pretty good job, I dented it and scratched the paint.

SO the doctor tells me my Achilles is only strained not torn because there would be more discoloration and swelling if torn. So he prescribed a steroid , exercises and in two weeks I can start physical therapy. So all is good there.

so you would think that was all the drama, right? NOPE I got booted! I do not have any parking tickets, or speeding tickets or any other moving violations open so how could this be? Oh that’s right it is for my foot. DUH!

Driving home was interesting. I needed to use my left leg to brake and my right foot does not flex in the boot so I had to press the gas with my whole foot. It took so getting used to but I did not have any other problems so all was good.

AM:

nothing, just letting my foot heal.

AM:

nothing all day.

AM:
Video games and TV. My foot feels pretty good.