It's been a while since I've written. It's been a month of ups and downs. Perhaps more downs than I was expecting at this point. My foot felt pretty good on vacation, weeks 10 and 11. I did a couple hours of hiking per day during one of those weeks. Had my lightweight hiking boots on and did pretty good. As usual, my toe seemed to loosen up after about 20 minutes of hiking. My toe would stiffen up while riding in the car for a few hours but seemed to easily get back to normal once I started walking.
Once we got home, the weather turned cold and wet and things seemed to south. In spite of continuing my twice a day toe exercises, things seemed to have moved backward. My toe has ached bad enough at night to wake me up, has started hurting out of the blue while just sitting in the car. Walking is uncomfortable most of the time. Is this the weather? The fact that I'm not walking as much as before? Not sure why the progress seems to have slipped backward. I do seem to have a bit more movement in my toe but the discomfort has gotten worse, not better. Most of the pain occurs on the bottom of my foot either between my big toe and the next toe or in the ball of my foot just below the big toe. Much of the pain has an electrical jolt feeling.
I'm pretty much able to do anything and wear most of my shoes; still not able to do downward dog although I did get up in plank position in yoga today. So I have more function--it's just the discomfort that is bothering me.
My three month follow up with the doc is Wednesday so will be interested in hearing what he has to say.
