Handling the challenges

Michelle status is good, but not as good as she was expecting. She’s got mobility, but it’s slow mobility. She went out for a little walk last night, slowly down the garage-side stairs off the deck to look at the flowers, headed towards the mailbox as I took the dog for a walk, thought better of it part-way due to the driveway’s incline, headed back inside and on up for bed.

This morning, she walked down the stairs, one at a time. We’ve learned that the air boot was doing more for her right ankle than she realized. We’ll see how she’s doing tomorrow.

How about a few pictures?

Number 6 is where all the big-deal stuff happened, near where the plate and screws (316 stainless steel, I was told yesterday) and surgery happened.

The cast comes off.

The scar is healing very well.

Now, the air boot is on the left.

The whiz-bang yee-ha woo-wee 21st Century "sports brace" that's now on her right ankle.

And now it's this way.  Her next consult is on 10 August.  Maybe things will settle out better by then.