On Being Laid-up for 4 Weeks…...
I recently had the pleasure of undergoing surgery on my torn Achilles tendon. The upside of the surgery is that I will be able to get back to all the things I love doing (hiking, kayaking, skiing). The downside, I’ve had to spend the past 4 weeks either in bed or chair with my foot elevated (toes higher than nose, as they say). It all started years ago when I underwent surgery to fix a completely torn meniscus in my knee. You’d think that would fix things, right? Well, I was one of the 40 million who had little to no health insurance and what I did have would not cover PT unless it was post surgery. That’s why I had the knee operated on in the first place, even through the doctor recommended...
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