I haven’t blogged
in a long time, way too long…. I know. A lot has happened lately so here it
goes. I’m on a ski break till August, so off snow training it is. A couple of
weeks ago I entered a national indoor race (not an adaptive race but a 'regular' abled body race), the first indoor parallel slalom,
unfortunately I didn’t made it to the finals but I got a nice picture.
On May 15 I had
surgery, finally I got rid of the hardware in my ankle. Those little buggers
have been bugging me a lot.
At first it
looked like I bounced back quick, I healed up nice and felt pretty good as soon
as 5 days after surgery. I wasn’t allowed to walk the first 2 weeks mostly
because I wasn’t allowed to wear the orthosis. After 2 weeks it was time to
remove the stitches, on Friday everything looked good but Friday night I got
some pain and a lot of swelling, Saturday night I was pretty sick, I spend that
weekend at my mom’s she took me to the ER. Yeah I had a post-op infection, not
good…. the hardware even bottered me after it was removed seriously...
Got antibiotics and had to go back to the AMC, the hospital I had my
surgery, on Monday. I was still pretty sick on Monday and in pain so the doc
actually wanted to admit me to the hospital for 5 days to get IV antibiotics,
well I didn’t totally agree to that plan. We had a nice little discussion and I
was allowed to go home with the same antibiotic in pills, I had to take those pills
on a clock, which meant I even had to weak up at night to take a pill. But it
worked, I had a check up on Thursday and things looked good. Last Thursday I
had my third and last post-op infection check up and I was cured, and back on
my feet.
So after that
little incident I bounced back, like I did last time. I feel fine, leaving out
the fact that my fitness level is pretty damn low, off course, but it sucks. At
least I’m walking again and since Friday back on the bike. I managed to fell off the
bike on Saturday, yeah I’m good, didn’t hurt my leg, just the other one but
that’s just bruised a bit, no big deal.
I was on training
weekend with the cycling talent team and we had a great time on and off the
bike. Yesterday morning we had a technique training, which I rocked, loved it,
yeah we also did slalom stuff… Yesterday afternoon was the training in which I
fell off my bike. It was about finding your limits, physically and mentally, I
guess. We did a climbing training, but
well I’m nowhere near fit, so I had a little alternative program only did the
first and the last climb. Well in the last climb I definitely found my limit.
But as said I’m fine and I had a good time. I feel great that I’m physically
active again after 4,5 weeks in a wheelchair and in bed.
Building back
takes time and patience but 4 weeks isn’t that long so I’ll be back soon.
Besides being an
orthopedic patient I also had an orthopedic test in med school, which I aced,
lots of experience ;).
And now I’m working on a research about congenital heart
disease, pretty interesting, also pretty cool to work ‘with’ pediatric
cardiologists.
weekend with friends in April
Trying to convince my dog to go for a walk
