This is bit of a more personal post today, but it’s important and I’ll explain why at the end.
These are my legs perfectly comfortable in an airplane seat, exactly 10 months post surgery for my tibial plateau fracture. Just five months ago, I had to stand up and stretch out my leg if I was sitting for longer than 20 minutes due to the soreness.
But all is well now. There is minimal pain and just slight discomfort when sitting for long periods for movies and airplane flights. It’s nothing to complain or even think about, really.
Life is continuing regularly in terms of being able to walk, sit, do my job, and do most of my everyday activities including weight training at the gym.
As for running and jumping, I still have some significant pain doing those activities. I gather it’s due to muscle weakness (my legs are still not the same size) and needing to amp up my leg training. So skiing will be off the table for me this season but hopefully next season I’ll be able to get back into it. Slowly.
I post these updates here because after my first post in January, I’ve gotten regular emails from people all around the world who have also suffered a TPF. It’s such a relatively rare injury that I know any little ray of hope or advice one can find on the Internet is helpful (I was totally there, too – scouring the net for any piece of information I could find from someone who has actually gone through this.) So this is for those people who are in the early days of a TPF. It DOES get better (see my earlier update here)
Oh, and in case you’re curious about where I was off to when this photo was taken: Disneyworld. By the time this scheduled post is published, I’ll be back home and will have hopefully survived the hundreds of hours I will have spent walking through the theme parks for 8 days! (Edited today to add: I had absolutely ZERO issues walking 20 000+ steps a day, yay! Disney is indeed MAGICAL!)
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