Hurt my Achilles Thursday night playing soccer, didn’t want to think it was a torn Achilles so tried to limp my way through. Decided to go to an orthopedic doctor today since I read online I could have a permanent limp if I don’t take care of it.
They confirmed that I have a tear in my Achilles from an ultrasound and what they were seeing in Xray and the Thompson test. Going to do a MRI this week and meet with the surgeon.
Feeling stressed because this will be the first surgery in my life, I’m in my early 30’s. The idea of anesthesia makes me uneasy.
Feeling depressed because now that I’m in the boot and told I need to stay off the foot and use crutches how limiting that is. Can’t even put my own groceries up, I don’t know how to cook like this, can’t even take out my own trash, I live on 2nd floor apartment. I have a 10 year old dog that I can’t take on walks now and feel like I’m missing out on life with him, especially since it seems it will take months before I can walk again.
Even taking a shower seems like mission impossible, and a bit hesitant to take off the boot since it seemed complicated for the PA at the Orthopaedic place to put it on.
On the bright side, I’ve been able to rekindle my relationship with my mom, she has been very helpful and is willing to come over and help me with things and walk my dog for me in the evening. Paying a dog walker for the morning walks.
I bought a shower chair, and a shower bag but won’t have those before I want to shower either tonight or tomorrow morning, and got a wheel’ed crutch scooter to hopefully help with getting around my apartment and being able to do stuff I can’t with crutches.
Any general advice on things that made daily tasks easier when you don’t have anyone to help you? I feel so useless, even getting my dog water and food is a challenge.
How do I deal with the mental battle since I feel like I’m going to be coped up in my apartment for a while?
Edit: Sorry about going MIA, been a busy day and I was exhausted and took a nap after work. Got my MRI done today, first time doing MRI was a pretty cool experience, the machine remind me of some electronic music lol.
Honestly really appreciate all the support and comments and look forward to reading them and replying. We really take brothers/sisters in misery to a new level.