Well last blog post I was exiting a low patch and combating the trials of a Welsh winter.. Spring is on its way and I'd started trawling through the memory sticks and phone caches for this year's motivation. Turns out I've got a few reasonable projects squirrelled away.
Unfortunately on a family day out I managed to perform a complete rupture of my right Achilles tendon while showing off to the kids.
So I'm now in a bit of a pickle.
Given my recent low patch, you'd think I'd be circling the drain right now, but I'm somehow feeling quite chipper.
Ok this year is written off for bouldering. I think I maybe have climbed my last highball.
But..
This is a pretty good challenge...
As someone who has always been drawn to the adventure and challenges of climbing rather than the difficulty or max gainz, my immediate worry was that my drug of choice was cut off and I was going to fall down a toilet like Ewan McGregor in Trainspotting.
But adventure is in the eyes of the beholder. I'm known for the esoteric side of adventure as it is, so exploring over nice level ground and sea cliff reconnaissance in my dinghy on very calm seas should provide suitable methadone adventures.
Rehab, the process and what's ahead.
I'm 2 and a bit weeks in, I was fortunate to be seen straight away in Ysbyty Gwynedd by one of their very experienced nurse practitioner's whose expert lining up of the ducks meant I saw the specialist the next morning and was straight into a vacuped boot rather than an Equinus cast. The first 2 week's were rough with self injecting the anticoagulant meds and enforced rest.
I'm now beginning a very tentative transition to weight bearing and leaving the confines of the crutches. I'm thinking this process will take 2-3 weeks. The coach in me has established I can currently support without pain about 3 stone of my body weight so pretty early days.
In two weeks I get to adjust the boot to allow a heady 15° of movement in my ankle.
I'm hoping to start driving again early April
Physio will start around this time.
Easy walks are tentatively pencilled in to start around May refilling the project folder.
Refilling as I've started giving away the higher or awkward to access ones.
Summer I get the dinghy out.
So yes. Chipper. New kinds of adventure, I'm even tentatively returning to my childhood hobby of exotic invert collecting, wife allowing.
There's treasure everywhere..