4th Week

After getting the cast, hubby dropped me off to Barne's and Noble. He had to go to CPR training at UAH and didn't have time to take me back home. So we got a Starbucks and then I waited there for my daughter to come pick me up. We ran into the husband of the lady that takes me to work. It was nice to have an outing with my new cast! But I didn't have a good way to prop up my foot so it got that heavy feeling as I sat there. When my daughter picked me up we then went to Publix. I rode in the handicap motorized cart to get some groceries. This was my first time to store in 3 weeks.

This week I got used to the cast. My foot was pretty tight inside still. I tried to start limiting my pain meds back to 3 pills a day and then 2 pills a day. It all didn't seem so bad so I got the idea that I better save my pills for later therapy. The doctor said to take Tylenol when I ran out of pain meds so I wasn't sure if he intended to refill my prescription again. The Tylenol seemed to work okay. There was discomfort with the foot from time to time, but there was also discomfort back when I had the pain pills. I felt the foot was healing and I could live with the discomfort.