CASTING



Now that the Achilles tendon elongation surgery is done I have to be in a cast for about 6 weeks and soon I’m going to start walking with a trainer who is going to come where I live for about 3 weeks, twice a week and after I’ll go to the rehab gym where I went several months ago.
I’m told that I’m still at risk to develop muscle spasticity therefore I’m going to have to wear a brace for my whole life not to let my muscles pull again in the wrong way.
Having this cast has made my mobility with the wheelchair in my apartment uneasy because I must keep the leg extended over a support but at least I have no pain whatsoever, now my focus is on starting to walk again and I’m concerned that because I can’t control the leg I’m getting wrong sensations about how I’m standing and in what position it is.
Like everything in medicine I’ll know how much this surgery has helped me only after the cast will be removed in few months, only God can predict the effect on my body of this surgery, at most a doctor can give a good guess.
In the meantime my daughter Giorgia is painting the cast and I love to be wearing her work of art.