Mr. Ankle, Life and Me

How ya doing?

Soooooo, I’ve been pretty quiet for the past few months.

To be honest, nothing has really been happening.

I’ve named my ankle: Mr. Ankle.

Mr. Ankle and I have been having adventures!

• Adventure 1: Riding the bus
  Heading to Adams Morgan and am taking the 42. The bus is crowded. I squeeze on and am standing near the front. The bus lurches forward. Mr. Ankle is not having it. Mr. Ankle starts to hurt. I ask a woman next to me if we can switch places after I explain my ankle injury. She moves. I lean back and put my ankle on the wall behind me… Doesn’t work. A few stops… An elderly woman with a cane gets on and people start moving so that she can sit. The woman who switched places with me says: You need to sit too. I suck it up and ask someone to give me their seat. But it’s too late. Mr. Ankle will be sore for the next 10 days.
  (Sidenote: If you call it AdMo in my presence, we gonna fight.)

• Adventure 2: Heels
  Yes. I know I was told to not wear heels. But… I was working with a photographer and at one point I (foolishly) thought: I’m only moving around my (very tiny) apartment… can’t do much damage. Bwaahahaha! said Mr. Ankle before deciding to be in pain for a week.

Because I was still restricted in how much I can do with Mr. Ankle, I haven’t been submitting to do any auditions.

The good news is that my orthopedic surgeon says he doesn’t need to see me again unless I have problems… which means I’m all healed!

Mr. Ankle pretty much has all of his movement back… now we’re working on strengthening.

I’ve not set foot in a gym since late July.

Been pretty sedentary since then.

My physical therapist says it doesn’t take long for us to lose strength. From my hip to my ankle prior strength and ability are gone… so I have to restrengthen all of that.

My physical therapist says I’m at the point where I can start trying things.

Does it hurt when I wear heels?

Wear heels to find out. Then bring them into pt and we can look at where problems occur.

It will be nice to finally been able to wear something other than the boots that provide more stability for Mr. Ankle.

Looking forward to rocking my boot collection… platform boots and all!

Returning to submitting for acting gigs.

Been biking (good for Mr. Ankle).

Boy, has my stamina diminished.

So, I’m working on building myself back up in every way: Mr. Ankle, acting, physical.

Thanks to those of you who checked in with me after the silence of the last few months.

I’ll be returning to the routine of writing.

I’m baaaaaaaaaack!

(Random pic of me… because)