I managed to squeeze my left foot into my pair of cyan ASIC runners after undoing the laces of the top three rungs. Even so, it still felt snug but at least walking in them is a lot better – more natural gait and protection for the toes – than walking in flip flops or my pair of Birkenstock. Or walking in Crocs. Woohoo!

Yesterday afternoon I managed to take myself to the hairdresser in my neighbourhood and later in the evening, made my way to the train station and took a train to a suburb four stops away. And from there, walked to a restaurant about a kilometre away. Of course all this took three times longer than it would have taken me pre-injury. Also I felt comfortable not wearing my moon boot as I have to start weaning myself off it. In any case, it’s still a milestone as I have never been out independently since my injury.

As I was about to have my shower last night, I took the shower stool out of the shower stall, removing it from where it has stood for the past 2.5 months. I congratulated myself on another milestone, i.e. I can now stand to take a shower! Being the pragmatics we are, A and I decided the stool would be best placed in storage in the garage as we will probably need to use it in 20 years’ time!

I’m making an effort to increase the distance I walk with each day that passes, taking cues from my pain threshold and how tired I feel to know when to stop. I’ll get there!