Ankle Update

After a visit with the podiatrist today, who barely touched my ankle before claiming, “Whoa, this is a serious injury!” It is confirmed that I did tear a ligament. Official diagnosis: Severe Ankle Instability. Lovely… I’m in yet another brace (all waking hours) and have a compression sleeve to sleep in. I also have to wear shoes, over the brace, all the time, can’t sit cross-legged, have to start icing again, and he would prefer if I stayed off ladders 😏.

The new brace provide complete lateral stability, which feels good, and doesn’t hike the right side of my body up like a ‘boot’ would. I now have to choose two pairs of shoes to sacrifice to the brace. It’s going to stretch out whichever shoe I wear over it. Inside shoes are not worn outside and visa-versa. I go back in 3.5 weeks to see how things are. The idea is avoid surgery. We’ll figure it out.

I would rather not destroy these shoes!