Movement is Essential, Progress is Nonlinear.
This week has been incredibly humbling. On Monday, I went to the doctor to have my cast removed. I was nervous, but eager to graduate to the next stage in my recovery – the boot. I prepared myself for it to be strange, telling myself that it was going to be skinny, hairy, and scale-y; but still, today was disorienting. When I saw my right lower leg for the first time in 6 weeks, I was struck by how it looked like someone else’s leg. Suddenly my sense of my body was called int