Thanks! Luck to you too. My granddaughter told me the same thing. She said if I work at it really hard but take my time that I could regain a lot but it will never be as strong as it was. She said the tendons get brittle as we age and don’t respond to healing like they used to. I’m taking collagen supplements to help and going slow. I was riding a mountain bike in the woods on rail trails 30 miles two or three days a week and walking 3-5 miles when I didn’t ride. In fact, I rode 30 miles the day before I fell. I don’t see me back to that level but if I can ride the bike on flats and walk a couple of miles I will be very happy. The doctor said not to even think about running and I told her I didn’t run before and I didn’t plan to start now. LOL I have a stationary bike, a treadmill, and an elliptical in the house and she said to start working out on those as long as it doesn’t cause pain and wear the brace while working out. I actually am pretty much arthritis free except for what the fall caused to the foot.
We have a farm and my husband isn’t able to do much. I always took care of the outside work like push mowing, etc. Our daughter and SIL live on the farm and do a lot of the hard work. I have done my mowing the last two years but wore the CAM boot. I’ll probably have to wear that for hard outside work from now on. Right now my main focus is on walking so that I can start walking my little dogs again. I’ll be glad when my granddaughter gets her degree to be a full physical therapist. LOL
Thanks for the encouragement! Going from being so active to doing nothing overnight has been depressing. :-)
I recovered but could tell I had lost a step or two when I came back and it has never been the same since.
I struggle to walk now without being short of breath and doing physical lifting and exertion here on our cattle farm is a killer sometimes.
It will never be the same again.
I'm just sayin'....