Derailed

SD 7/23/13; first fill 9/23/13; second fill 11/4/13

Current weight: somewhere in the 160s

It has been awhile since I’ve written, predominantly due to a life derailment that occurred on May 6. One second I was walking the dog, preparing to cross the road, and the next second I was leg deep in a water main hole, it’s metal cover slewed sideways and my foot in the hole. At 53 years old I had never broken a bone in my life, but I was pretty sure something was broken.

Not just something. Somethings. Mainly, all my metatarsils from the center bones in my left foot. It is called a Lisfranc dislocation, which sounds much nicer than it is. Here is what the x-ray showed when I drove myself to the Urgent Care center and cried out for someone to bring a wheelchair to help me get inside because by that time the pain was pretty overwhelming and I couldn’t walk.

As you can see, from the little toe bone up to the big toe bone, they are not aligned with the other bones in my foot.

I had surgery on May 14, and this is what my x-ray looked like after that:

The metal plates will remain in my foot for the rest of my life, for which I’m in for loads of fun anytime I pass through airport security. The pins will come out next week, when I get my cast off and get into a walking boot cast.

I would have thought being unable to walk for a month, mostly lying on the couch catching up on the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, would have completely derailed my weight loss journey, but somehow it dropped me out of the 170s and into the  lower 160s, I believe. When I last stood – one legged – on the scale, I was down around 160, but as I still am in the non-weight bearing stage of my recovery, I cannot be sure. For all I know the left leg weighs 10 lbs and since I  cannot put it down on the scale my results are skewed.

I’ll have the walking boot cast on during my one-year bandiversary so I will not be able to truly see what the actual loss has been and do the celebratory announcing on blog and Facebook pages. Maybe I’ll see if I can weigh the boot cast and subtract that from the total once I can get both feet on the scale. In the interim, I’ll just keep hoping that the daily hauling myself up the stairs on my ass is creating better upper body strength which will continue to burn more calories.

I have cut back on the ice cream, to which I briefly lapsed during my invalid state, but I still cannot give up the Dominion Ginger Ales.