MY FRIENDS CALL ME ‘A GIMP’
Well, it is six weeks after falling in a hole and my foot is still not healed. My analysis is that I’m now about 75% healed. When I was first injured, I figured that I’d only be out of commission for about a month at most. I still couldn’t put any weight on my foot after two weeks. I went online to check if that’s normal or what. What I read seriously disturbed me. Most everyone that wrote about it said it took them ten to twelve weeks to recover. Some took as long as 16 weeks!!! I think Wikipedia said something about it taking 8 weeks to build up the 5th metatarsal.
I figured out that the most important thing to do when one breaks their 5th metatarsal is to STAY THE HELL OFF OF IT!!#%&*!!! When I did my research, I discovered that those who did not stay off their broken foot took much, much, much longer to heal. I am impatient to be back on my feet and normal again. Not to mention feeling fat!!! My wonderful boyfriend even said that boy, I had better get ‘back in the gym’ again. (This is coming from a man that looks like he’s seven months pregnant.) It didn’t really hurt my feelings because: (1) He will always be fatter than me. And (2) He’s right and I am more anxious to be able to work out than he even wants me to.
The other day I started to do research on how one could possibly work out with a broken foot. There isn’t a lot of exercise that I can do with a broken foot. There are no real videos to follow. There were a few videos of some “wheelchair exercises”. But, the lady used weights on the thighs. Not a good plan for someone that seriously wants to stay off of it – for it to heal. Also, these were only like 3-minute videos with some general information. Someone did mention something about the “Chair Exercise” video. So maybe I should look into that. Some people said Pilates is good for it. I confess I know very little about Pilates and I think maybe I might need some special equiptment for it. Didn’t I read that the movie stars are always doing Pilates?
I am able to do those (Girl) push-ups. So, that’s good. I am even considering making my very own work-out video for gimps like me. I suppose watching this “Jump-Rope” video didn’t make me feel any better:
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