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“And if we could show the world today that being committed to Christ is no tame, humdrum, sheltered monotony, but the most fascinating and exciting adventure the human spirit can ever know---“ joy unspeakable and full of glory” –the thousands of strong and stalwart lives that have been holding back from Christ and looking askance at the Church and standing outside the Kingdom would come crowding in to His allegiance; and there might be such a revival as the world has not witnessed since the Pentecost.”
A song of ascents fills my thoughts and invades my soul as I reminisce about the unique journey and seasons of my life, oh most surely as Advent arrives this eventful year. Seemingly 2008 was on fast forward and abbreviated by heaven’s clock. But of course, no such thing was true because the seconds, minutes, hours, weeks, months have remained equal down the centuries, fixed and governed with precision since Genesis chapter one, Alas the rush of time, is nothing more than having my calendar too crowded with activities in these upper years. I resolve to slow my dervish when the calendar turns.
Sparrows, titmice, and finches were the first visitors to my copper-roofed feeder station this season. When two of the five pine trees on my front lawn died, I engaged Robert the tree man to take them all down, there being enough remaining oaks, maples, tulip poplars, and dogwoods as habitat for the ubiquitous squirrels that no doubt will miss their piney playground.
As another Christmas draws near, this is my petition: Holy Spirit, Thou art welcome in this place; Holy Spirit, Thou art welcome in this space; Omnipotent Master of glory and grace, Thou art welcome here in my place…. and for the wider world and even greater realm of the Kingdom into which I was reborn, joint heir with the tiny Babe of Bethlehem who visited this planet twenty one centuries ago.
From A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens: Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world….. He had no further intercourse with Spirits…; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us, Every One!
I had every intention on writing this entry on my 6 week Post Op “Rupturversary”, but got caught up with the spectacle that is the 2008 Summer Olympics. How fantastic has the Olympics been? I’ve watched everything from Archery to Team Hand Ball (Where did this sport come from?). The Basketball has been difficult to watch because it makes me want to play, but i’ve been fighting the urge.
So, on Monday I had my 2nd Post Op visit. I was told to remove my boot and bandages, hop off the bench, walk the length of the room, and stand on my toes. Then my doctor says, OK back to shoes, back to work, see you in 4 weeks. “Excuse me? I’m not sure if you remember, i’m the guy with the bilateral rupture.” To which his response was, “You’re good. Try not to push off on your toes and be careful.” I feel like i’m his X-Men project. I’m clearly a Super Hero. I hope he put springs in my legs for extra hop when I get back to playing next June (Personal Goal of mine…)!
We all clearly have a long road ahead of us, but every day is a day closer to 100%. In the spirit of the Olympics, Team USA Women’s Basketball Forward Tamika Catchings recently ruptured went through the healing process and is viciously competing in the Basketball Tournament. The moral of the story is, Stay Encouraged family.
I have always been proud of being a (generally) athletic male with nice feet. OK, stop laughing! I’m serious. The two typically don’t go together and women love a guy with “pretty feet” (trust me fellas). So, today i’m 4 weeks, 2 days Post Op, and my feet look a mess! The cast did a number on my heels and ankle area and being afraid of applying lotion to my “surgery area” has the back of my feet looking dry and just gross (To me at least. But I suspect my wife feels the same way. She just won’t say it out load!).
Anywho, during an advertisement break of a rather riveting episode of Judge Mathis (Day Time television is the worst!) I saw a commercial for the Ped Egg TM (www.freepedegg.com)! Could this unique invention Ergonomically Designed to fit into the palm of my hand be the answer to my prayers? Ummmmm, I think i’ll pass…
This thing just creeps me out. For those that haven’t seen it, the egg shaped pedicure tool uses over 135 “safe” stainless steel blades (oxymoron) to “gently” remove dry and callused skin from your feet. The genious of the product emerges when you remove the top cover of the “egg” to find the skin shavings ready for proper disposal. I know, I know, sounds great. But have you seen this thing? The whole process just grosses me out.
I’m sorry if you started reading this entry looking for something profound or maybe an achilles recovery update. I think it’s safe to say that the “cabin fever’ has gotten the best of me on this day. Not much of a recovery update. Second post-op visit is on the 11th. I plan on walking out of the doctors office, and maybe getting a pedicure…
Greetings & Salutations Fellow ATR Family. It has been quiet some time since I made an entry. I will simply blame it on laziness (It’s not like I was doing anything else…). Thank you to everyone that offered words of encouragement and comfort in my first post. It has truly made this ordeal easier to bear.
When we last left our bilateral super hero, he was eagerly anticipating the removal of his initial casts and staples. Well, this occured without incident on July 14th.
After the doctor removed my staples, I was fitted for my ultra modish immobolizing boots. I was told to continue with no weightbearing, ice, compress and elevate. Thankfully, I do not have to wear the boots while sleeping. Something I was truly dreading. But the whole “weightbearing” thing confuses me. So, I try to use my wheelchair and new found upper body strength as often as possible. However, I cannot tell a lie and say that I haven’t walked over to the PS2 in order to switch from Madden to NBA Live. I mostly crawl though…
Leaving the house for the first time was great. Even if it was only to see the doctor (This was probably the first time i’ve been excited to go to the doctor ever in life.). However, it made my wife and I realize that getting out of the house wasn’t that difficult. So Tuesday we went to IHOP for dinner and Thursday to the movies to finally see “Wanted” (So much better than “Hancock”). After both outings I didn’t want to go back home. We have since returned to the movies to see “The Dark Knight” (Great if you’re a comic book person. Heath Ledger was amazing!) and we’re planning another outing to see “Step Brothers” or “X-Files”. It’ll be a gametime decision.
Thankfully pain has continued to be insignificant. Slight twinges here and there, but nothing to brag about. Since i’m in the boots, I can take showers. I would not recommend this without a shower chair (bilateral or otherwise). The chair made everything easier, except getting out of the shower. At the end of the day, it all seemed like more of a hassle. I think I may stick to the “Cowboy Showers” for now. The shower did soften the skin and unfortunatley, I had some oozing from the left scar. Being slightly worried, I had a doctor friend look at the wound and she determined that there was no infection, and that it was “normal” (whatever that means).
I guess that’s all for now folks. Who knew this would be so long? I’m sure to have more updates when I go back on August 11th. Until then, enjoy your respective forced vacations….
On June 2nd during a competitive league basketball game I suffered Bilateral Achilles Rupture while going up to block a shot. (Coincidentily, we lost by 2 in overtime, literally adding insult to injury.) Oh and Yes “Bilateral” does mean the left AND the right Achilles ruptured. It’s funny how when things like this happen, everyone around you becomes a medical professional; offering comments like, “You know you’re going to have to have surgery?” Yeah genius? Thanks for the update…
Anywho, like most of us the emergency room visit was followed by the subsequent Ortho visit, that ultimately lead to the “You know you’re going to have to have surgery” conversation. After much internal debate and procrastination, I scheduled my surgery for July 3rd (I did mention procrastination right?).
I highly recommend doing things you enjoy doing the days before the surgery as you will miss them during recovery. My wife and I went to see “Hancock” (Retrospectively, I wish we would have seen “Wanted” instead…) Surgery day went as smoothly as to be expected. We had a wheelchair scheduling snaffu, but thanks to good friends and good drugs, it all worked out. Other than the nausea, there was very little pain or discomfort day 1. In fact, that was pretty much the best sleep i’ve had in years.
I anticipated pain and discomfort for day 2, but it never really came. Same for day 3 and 4. One week later, I have thankfully remained mostly pain free. They say i’m built Ford Tough; I however wonder whether my doctor did anything. Well we’ll find out on Monday, when the good doctor removes my cast.
OK Ford Tough…so I just now saw you were an Atlantan. Me too. Where’d you go for surgery? Me, Resurgens Ortho. Can’t believe you are a double…guess you gotta do it in a big way. Your incisions look like they are doing great. You’ll be 100% in no time!!
OK…and, I took a sec to read the Egg story…my sister swears by the egg…and…I am SOOOO embarassed to say….I bought one…It is disgusting..the shaving collection thing…I was cracking up when I saw your post….and I shouldn’t admit that I HAVE ONE! Have a good night!
SInce I am also in Atlanta, who in the heck is your surgeon? I think I made the wrong choice….also, I now have a DVT and PE, which is a very scary complication. Were you on blood thinners after the surgery? THanks, Sandy
Yay, you! Welcome back to the world of the walking! What wonderful news. I’ve been enjoying the Olympics, too, maybe even more than usual in part because of my greater appreciation for the body, limits and abilities. Amazing, really. Congrats and keep us posted as you progress along.
Truly unbelievable…I don’t think even Wolverine heals that fast! Congrats on getting back on your feet. They must have used adamantium in your repair. Hope all continues to go well.
The washcloth works the best. You don’t want to take too much skin off. I would put lotion on at night, then use a washcloth in the morning in the shower. Works great. My foot is back to pretty. =)
I’m West coast and have seen it on TV…..I thought it was a pretty cool little invention—won’t buy one though:)
Luckily this has not made it to WEST coast tv. Can I assume you are all East Coast? What ch’all doing to those feet for these types of inventions?
I agree with you 100% I must have seen this commercial 1000 times in the last month and every time it weirds me out. I didn’t understand the scene with the orange when it shaved off all the skin, and yet, it’s so gentle it won’t even pop a balloon!
Hey Fordtough, I agree with you about the egg. It looks like some kind of medieval torture device. I had the same problem with the top of my foot starting about four weeks post-op. I looked like some kind of shrunken snake shedding its oversized skin. Grooosssss!!! Anyway, I found a really rough facecloth, wet it and scrubbed away followed by a really heavy foot moisturizing cream. It worked like a charm and everything looked nice and pretty again. If you are really a go-getter, you could go through your wifes nail polish collection and get her to paint you up real pretty. My toes are a lovely purple, which complements my hot pink cast. Anyway, the cloth and the moisturizer will do the trick. It’s funny, but once my foot looked good again, it seemed to feel better too. Good luck with your recovery.
at least the egg is better than using a cheese geater, or something. Sandpaper? Anyway, there is a much more funs way to do this - have your feet tickled all over by tiny fish nibbling your dead skin. Dont believe me? Look at the news link below.
I’ve been thinking - as hard as it must be to go through this, there is a low chance of rerupturing once you heal (something like 2-4%). So technically, the odds are in your favor that this is the only time you will have to go through this - compared to the wimps (like me) who only ruptured one at a time. We stand a 10% chance of rupturing the other down the road and getting to do this ALL.OVER.AGAIN. Kinda like getting the mumps with the measles, no?
Hey, now I feel better - someone with two ATR’s! Thank God for Guinness and DVD’s and computers! Here I am moaning in my cast, but this site always cheers me up –or is it Schadenfreude?
I wonder sometimes, when this is all done, a year from now, will I just forget this long, boring and frustrating summer? I do tend to forget bad things easily….
Love the attitude. You seem to be rolling along (!) nicely. I, too, enjoyed Dark Night. Captivating performance by HL. ‘Wanted is on my list, too, good to hear you liked it.
An aside to Ed - my geek/labelmaker obsessed coworker put ‘teh boot’ on my boot this week when I returned. I suspect more will be turning up over the weeks.
OMG! I was wallowing in my own ATR hell and hadn’t seen this! Just saw your update post and had to track back to how it happened. Glad you found the place. Your experience will certainly be helpful to others down the road. Please keep us posted on how you adapt and manage. May you have a safe and speedy recovery!
MY HERO “That’s my way of saying that when I was young, I didn’t have big rock heroes, I didn’t want to grow up and be some big sporting hero. My heroes were ordinary people and the people that I have a lot of respect for are just solid everyday people - people you can rely on.” Dave Grohl
I think most of us have thought people don’t really understand what we’re going through. But the funny thing is even though I have an ATR, I still can’t imagine what it’s like to have a two-fer.
If daveleft, a re-rupture, thinks you make him look like a wuss, then the rest of us are downright slackers who should be out playing basketball, softball, soccer, tennis then doing some dancing afterward!
Wow - I am humbled. Watch that oozing - keep it dry and clean. The more often you can get it out of teh boot to “air out” the better… Would be good to get that resolved before you atart PWB - once that happens, the boot could irritate the incision…
fordtough - glad that your recovery is coming along nicely. Looking forward to reading your future posts.
Dude…you are a superhero. You make us re-rupturers look like wussies…that photo of the dueling boots makes me cringe! Glad to hear that things are progressing though. Keep fighting the good fight.
hye ftough - I went out of the second time yesterday since my surgery. We went wine tasting. After about an hour I had to sit and was exhausted. I could only think about - “what if I did this to both legs/A’s”. I thought of you and you just need to know everyone on this site cares and is pulling for you. Keep us updated.
How do you go to the toilet? I thought it was tough hobbling on one leg! I guess you’re using a wheelchair everywhere you go? You are Ford tough!
I tore mine during hoops…going up to block a shot as well…but the only thing that went into the stands was my yell. My opponent swished the shot.
Btw, like the name. Learned to drive in a F100, three on the tree. I think that truck is still running somewhere.
fordtough - okay.. new code. fixed the bug. It should work properly. Your “which leg” is set to “Both!”..
fordtough - You’ve definitely taken achillesblog.com to another level. Sorry to hear about your ruptures. As some of the others have mentioned, it’s good to hear that you’re in relatively good spirits. Please keep posting your recovery experience.
You sure are lucky you said that Dennis, because my entry for tomorrow was going to be about Bilateral ATR Discrimination! Why not? I’m not doing anything else…
Looks like I am going to have to change the code for Achilles Profile. Currently, you can say that you injured either the left leg or the right leg, not both..
Oh, the shot went to the stands and I went to the ground. I appreciate all the encouraging comments. I will keep all posted.
Wow that sucks! My first question is did you block the shot? The interesting thing, is my doctor had another bilateral also. I am very sorry to hear this, but I am glad to see that you have a positive attitude about this. Keep us posted, and if there is any advice we could offer let us know. I myself am almost two months post surgery and feeling pretty good, so in time you will get there.
Hello from Pennsylvania - your post actually made me smile - I thought I was having it tough with one, but bilarteral!! Keep smiling and keep posting for us!
oh gosh. bilateral ruptures?!?! I have LOTS of respect for you as you seem to be in good spirits!!!!!! Good for you-having a positive attitude is the most important thing for recovery.
Wow, been wondering if/when we would see a bilateral. Seems like you’ve got a good attitude which is 90% of the battle in recovery. Best of luck!
About 15 years ago myself and some friends went to have tennis lessons, …. most of us in our late …eh…. no quite…… lets just say over 30!!! Anyway during the warm up we noticed Margaret had fallen down, we just laughed and carried on in our group, next thing the Ambulance crew arrived and carted poor Margaret off to Hospital, didn’t know until the next day she had ruptured both Achilles…. The good news is, she like me is now in her 50’s and she doesn’t play tennis any more but walkes miles every day playing golf.
So, it will take a while but you will get there, this site is a godsend, check it out daily for advice and you will be amazed at the responses you get.
Ok, got call from pain management doctor and then had someone cancel for a stimulator and I could step in their place. So I got the trial unit installed, two leads go into the med part of my spine and actual unit fits around my waste and has the two leads attach to the unit with usb ports. I have remote unit that has three programs each has eight levels of intensity. I started at what the company rep told me the most commonly effective program, power level 5. Thru the first three days so far the company rep calls and asks how I am doing and, as it has gone so far, each day is ineffective, we have adjusted up the power. I have to take my pain meds (nucynta, 50 mg, with gabapintin, 300mg) by four o’clock each day. My pain management doctor tells me almost everyone knows if the unit is going to be effective in the first three days. I am on my fourth day now, and no help at all, When you sign the form, they state they are going for a 50 to 75% decrease in pain, but when they talk to you informally they tell you stories of ex-nurses, sceptical types who felt 90% reductions in their pain. You never have enough time to ask them all the specifics. Anyway, the rep tells you on the third day that the other programs are for if the leads move somehow and they need to change the ‘focus’ of the current. So this explains why the doctor says the unit works in three days, he thinks he will locate it correctly. I don’t know what my chances are a this point, I guess that is the wrong question and I would continue on hoping that the unit works. I am getting to the point where I just going to have to turn to less objective forms heeling and to mediation, supplements and alike.
I am being treated for peripherial neropathy now by my pain management doctor. I believe the nerve pain is a result of the surgeries (3) my heel/Achilles. I was wondering if anyone else out there had these issues, and, of course, what you did about it. A therapist I see recently pointed me at this treatment: Therapeutic Nervoscience Treatment: http://www.optp.com/Therapeutic-Neuroscience-Education-Teaching-Patients-About-Pain-A-Guide-for-Clinicians#.VfqL7PlViko. The basic idea here is that your injury is healed and you are over your tissue damage so you need to think and more importantly feel that your injury is the result of overactive and oversensitive nervous system: from your injury site to your brain and you need to retrain yourself to deal with it differently. Has anyone tried this? This site is really disappointing me because I am getting no response to my postings anymore. I wonder if anyone is out there anymore. Thanks.
Well I am entering the month that will include my one year anniversary to my last surgery; the surgery of which the surgeon said, “this was simple and so will take less time to get over.” Much to his puzzlement, I still walk only with the aid of Nucynta and Gabapintine. The pain doctors have placed me on this routine and, you know, I thank them, because those are the best hours, besides sleeping, that I have. I take my meds first thing in the morning and scooter off to work, and while on the distracting scooter ride, I love the scooter and am quite sure I would love the ride even if I knew it would end in my death, they take their desired affect, so when I get to work, I feel serviceable. It is on the weekends that I am having difficulties, because I have more time and I feel the hangover of the meds and so don’t want to juice up again. Of course when I respond this way, my heel is laying in wait, and springs into action with its cries of ‘listen to me’, ‘I have been ignored’ pain. Any how it is now the weekend, so you know how I feel, and I am imagining that I know how you feel, or at least many of you (because I have read your posts); hopeful as you are in your every increasing mobility and strength. So I just felt the need to remind you, to be patient and, if possible, enjoy your recovery, because some of us are not. I no doubt know, rationally, that irrationally this sour attitude does not help in it, but this has been a hard and painful four years, and, still like a child, I want it to come to a recuperative end, but always seem to be asking myself, “why am I not getting better like all those other fortunate folks?”
Well, the nortriptyline appears to not be working so I will be asking my pain management doctor if we can look into the stimulator. It seems only the narcotics (Nucynta) provide some relief. See how that works. Probably retiring from work and take early retirement, sell the house and move into a less expensive place.
Here is a great explanation of the nerve pain I am experiencing post surgery. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8CP-rfqp0s, I have nerve pain on both sides of the right heel but no more pain in the tendon itself. So I traded Achilles tendon repair for CRPS on both sides. Not a good trade. Nerve pain was a result of the surgery.
This week the numbness which only use to occur occassionally in the ball of my right foot is present virtually all the time and it is extending into all my toes. I called my pain doctor and got his nurse and she says she does not think it is anything to be concerned about; however, that is hard to believe as now my foot is just numb when I walk about. I still have full motor control but I worry if that will be effected by this trend.
Went and saw another orthopedic doctor, Dr.Patel. He was not my surgeon on any of my three Achilles/heel surgures, but he impressed he with how creative he was when consulted. For example, early on in this process, he suggested the Platelet injection. He was not overly optimistic but to the point in dealing with CRPS. He does not put hardly any confidence in the stimulator and challenged me to challenge Dr. Sayed to refer me to any successfully treated patients for what I have. So I thought I would call Sayed’s office and see if I can get that. Rather Patel wants to get another MRI to make sure we don’t have any physical issues with the tendon and also do an EMG on the nerves to see if we can pin point any nerve issues that we might be able to correct. He likened this CRPS to a pinched nerve. So I have appointments to do that. I am trying to run both tracks now: Sayed’s stimulator and Patel’s discovery. And, of course, keeping up the narcotics that Dr. Lee, and Dr. Morgan think I should continue. However, using the narcotics is not easy and I am afraid trying to balance that every day correctly and working at my job (programmer) will be undoable. If I do too much pain killers, I am unfocused and foggy; if I don’t do enough, I have constant, distracting pain. Plus I am nauseous most mornings, I feel like I have a mini hangover, and I have what can only be described as hallucinogenic dreams every night if I take the pain med. I am taking Nucynta, by the way; 3 or 4 times a day. It is hard.
Well, I got one pain management doctor suggesting a stimulator for my back and another not suggesting it. So since there is a trial, I guess I will try it out and see what happens. If it does not work, then that is the way it will be. If the trial does, then I have to decide if I want to make it premanent. Anybody else see it differently? Always open to suggestions and advice. What do I do if I got without the stimulator, more opiads and just mix and match them till, and if, I don’t need them anymore.
Still taking daily narcotics to reduce pain. Wondering what options I have to get over CRPS. Had to take Oxycodin today to get rid of burning pain today. Taking Nucynta every four hours; thinking maybe if I stop taking Gabapentin I will not be so nausous in the morning. Does anyone have experience with TINS, Kematine treatment, surgical neuropathy? If pain does not get better I will either be quitting work or they will fire me. I get sited for unprofessional behavior like I texted by boss that I felt like shit in the morning and had to be stoned the rest of the day to feel good. Even though it was just to her phone that was considered unprofessional. We talk worse than that everyday but I can only guess that she wants me join. I can’t blame her. I am unproductive and always missing days due to pain.
Got a second opinion today from another doctor, not a pain management doctor, but someone who sees a lot of patients with pain issues, and she concurs with the pain doc that it sounds like CRPS. She says my only reasonable option is to manage it with pain meds. Just went on a 4 am ’stroll’ -1/2 mile. I sit here writing with the burning and throbbing pain of CRPS. I am so angry. Folks on this site talk about being driven crazy not being able to run for months or years. I understand that. I am just plain unhappy. I hate my doctors for a) causing this and b) not telling me what this is. I had to figure it out on my own. Ass-holes!
I’m at 14 wks 2 days. I’ve been doing great. Steady progress every few days. I’ve been walking fairly well, no limp unless sore or tired. I’m able to play golf riding a cart.
In the past week, I’ve started to notice a little bump, like a little ball right where the tendon was repaired. It’s sensitive to the touch - a little sore, especially after PT or walking moderate distances. It usually feels better after a few hours but it’s something that doesn’t seem quite right visually. It sort of protrudes out toward the back of the AT unlike the concave shape of a healthy AT. I asked an ortho friend who says he sees it a lot and that it’s just fluid build-up and it will go away in a few days. I’m seeing my ortho later this week - I’m definitely going to have him look at it. We may do an MRI. I’m interested if anyone has seen a symptom like this 3 months post-op. I will definitely keep everyone posted.
I took a vacation to mexico, a cruise actually, and several people saw me wearing my boot and asked me what had happened in a knowing fashion. I met one guy who had ruptured his AT 11 years ago and has since tattooed over his scar - a rupturing tendon with a soccer ball flying through it. sort of tells the whole story right there. Another guy came up to me and said he experienced the same injury many years ago. It’s so interesting. It’s like we’re in this club, the global ATR club - we now make special notice of the hardware (the boot), a certain type of limp, the scar….we empathize with the injury and the associated long recovery. Sort of cool.
I played my first round of golf since the ATR. I took a cart with a handicap sticker. I had fun. I could hit with power and had a few decent shots. I really didn’t feel all that different because I’m normally not that good of a golfer anyway. I encounter some trouble (several, ahem, 4 actually, snowmen appeared on my scorecard) due to lack of playing and uneven lies were somewhat troublesome. I played without a boot, which I’ve basically stopped wearing as of a few weeks ago. I have very minor swelling which looks bad because the ankle swells up above where the shoe is so the area is sort of lumpy. All in all a great time. so far so good.
I saw the 1st episode of Hard Knocks - Training Camp with the Cincinnati Bengals last night. I cringed when they showed Reggie Kelly get carted off the field with an ATR. The trainer told him 6 months recovery time.
After nearly 2 mos, I finally took the car (with a manual transmission) out for a drive in 2 shoes. It was good to get out there and row through the gears. I’m guessing my clutch is the equivalent of 20 lbs of force on my achilles so it should make for a good rehab activity. About a week ago, I actually drove some while still in my boot, which probably is not a great idea. The boot is bulky and it’s conceivable that one could hit the brakes inadvertently. Also, the inability to plantar flex is an issue preventing you from depressing the clutch all the way but in a pinch, driving with a boot (left foot) on the clutch is doable.
Boy that commercial was annoying (no offense to any of you on Dr Scholl’s ad team) but I started to get heel soreness from walking around in a boot so I’ve placed a gel sole in my boot. I haven’t put it to a long test but it seems to have made a difference after taking a few steps on my porch. so I never thought in a million year’s I’d ever say this but “I AM GELLIN!”
I’m not going to kid anyone. I’m a competitive person… and I have peterh and doug53 in my sights! (well, not them per se but their awesome recovery schedules)
I’m essentially 2 mos post-op and I saw my ortho today. he was very pleased with what he saw - the tendon is very solid, the wound looked good, etc. he sd it was ok for me to start phasing in 2 shoes, golf in a boot should be ok, and that I was ahead of schedule. Needless to say, I was happy to hear it. I’ve been pushing a little ahead of my ortho’s rehab pace and I feel like he’s given me the greenlight to push just ever so slightly harder to getting my active life back.
I still feel tightness when I lean forward on the injured foot when I walk so I plan to take it easy but I’m going to do a little more every 2 days. I think strength will be more important now. I need more power in my plantar flexion to take the pressure off my knees which are sore after extensive boot walking and to eradicate the limp I have because my left foot walks flat footed.
I finally went to the driving range yesterday. The great as well as incredibly sad thing is my ball striking is actually not much worse with one good leg. It felt good to get out and do something physical. I felt no discomfort while I was out there and I laid into a few.
Last night (similar to most nights), my AT area felt a little sore and tender with minor swelling. I keep feeling the tendon and, whether it’s real or imagined, I think I can feel a bump or edge where my AT was repaired. It could be scar tissue but I have no idea.
SORENESS AFTER WALKING: As directed by my PT, I try to walk in the boot with as normal a stride as possible. This causes a stretching sensation in the back of my calf (feels like muscle, AT, and skin) and after a bit of walking or at the end of the day, my AT area is pretty sore. I think it’s normal to expect this and am hoping some of you have had the same sensation and found it to be normal.
SENSITIVE SKIN AROUND AT: The skin around my AT is still a little sore. I’m wondering how normal this is 7 wks post-op. The soreness feels like a mild bruise - nothing painful - but it’s all around the AT area even on the outside of my AT (the opposite side of the incision, my incision was done slightly to the inside to avoid irritation later on from wearing shoes).
WALKING WITHOUT BOOT: I’m still having trouble walking normally without the boot. I feel hesitant to really lean forward as I feel the stretching sensation in the back of my leg. I also can’t get much lift from the injured side so I’m very flat footed. I only do this around the house. I haven’t been instructed to but I’m trying to do more strengthening - seated calf raises, where I just try to lift my knees off the ground.
LUMPY SKIN AFTER ICING: Also, after icing, I’ve noticed lumpiness in the skin around my incision. It’s like there are dimples and ridges up and down my AT. This tends to even out after a 20 mins or so but it looks really weird.
Other than these minor issues that I’m curious about. Things seem to be going well. I’m walking fine and if I’m feeling good, I may hit the driving range next week.
Iranian Women figured prominently in the 10th presidential elections of June 2009, in which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner by a wide margin. In large pre-election rallies and intense campaigns and during the post-election upheaval women played a visible and active role. Several internal conflicts within the ruling elites, including long-existing cracks within the ranks of the Shiite clerics and also between the people and the state came to the fore during and after the presidential elections. Women in large numbers joined the massive street protests that followed the vote, as opposition candidates and their supporters raised accusations of wholesale fraud in the official results and declared it an “electoral coup.”
The international media, often unaware of the brewing women’s movement in Iran , were surprised to see women marching in the demonstrations in large numbers and braving the violent response by security forces, which dramatically illustrated the clash between a changing society and an increasingly repressive government. But the massive participation of women in the latest protests is not an unprecedented, overnight development. This has been the result of many years of rather quiet educational and organizational work carried out by many small groups of women and men focused on civil rights, especially women’s rights. Women’s social activism and participation in political movements in modern Iran has more than 100 years of recorded history, with special highlights during the Constitutional Revolution of 1906–1911, the nationalist movement of the 1950s, the modernization and reform processes of the 1960s and 1970s, and the Islamic Revolution of 1978–79.[1]
What is unprecedented is not the massive quantity, but a new quality of women’s participation, which is marked by a high level of gender consciousness, self-confidence, and feminist agency. During the 1979 Revolution too, thousands of women, mostly covered in black veils, rallied behind Ayatollah Khomeini under a populist Islamist discourse envisioning a utopian and just Islamic society. But the current social uprising is neither revolutionary nor sectarian. It is a nonviolent and non-ideological pro-democracy movement in which demands for individual freedom and civil rights, including women’s rights, constitute its important components.
Women from all walks of life, but mostly young and urban middle class women, took part in both the electoral campaigns and in the protests against the results, which were widely viewed as being fraudulent. While some among these women participants were devout women covered in the traditional black chadors, many others appeared in colorful scarves, modern fashions, and secular looks. Unlike the demonstrations orchestrated by the government that we were used to seeing over the past 30 years, these rather spontaneous protests have not been sex segregated. Women marched not behind men, but alongside men or even in the forefront.
The nightly cries of “Allah-o-Akbar” (God is great) and “Death to the Dictator” on the roof tops are similar to those during the 1978–79 Revolution. Unlike then, however, the current movement is not dominated by sectarian and revolutionary Islamism. Nor is the revolutionary Marxism-Leninism of the guerrilla movements of the 1970s present in the current movement. While a populist, religious fundamentalist (Islamist) and anti-imperialist discourse led by Ayatollah Khomeini was predominant in Iran in the 1970s, today a pluralist, and predominantly secular discourse based on human/women’s rights, civil rights, and the democratic rule of law makes up the main framework of the current movement. By secular, I do not mean anti-religion or even irreligious, but an adherence to the separation of state and religion. This growing secular tendency in Iran rejects theocracy, the supremacy of the clerical power in politics, and the absolute rule of the jurist (velayat-e motlaqeh faqih) and aspires to create a secular republic based on free elections and parliamentary democracy. In other word, the dominant mindset in the current movement is post-Islamist and non-ideological.
Several inter-related and at times paradoxical factors have contributed to this evolutionary process. Among recent changes at the local and national levels in Iran are the demographic changes such as increased urbanization and the youth bulge in Iran’s rising population; the dramatic increase in literacy and educational attainment, especially among women, who now make up 63 percent of university enrollment; the remarkable decline in fertility rates thanks to a successful campaign for birth control and family planning along with an improvement in primary health care; the rise in women’s socio-political participation; and the increase in women’s contribution to economic, scientific, and cultural production in the arts, literature, and cinema.
The interplay of these internal changes with certain changes at the international and global levels, especially the impact of globalizing factors such as the new communication technology (including the Internet, mobile phones, and satellite TV) and the global currency of human rights discourse and feminism promoted by the United Nations and by supportive devices such as CEDAW [2] that are being ratified by an increasing number of member states of the UN have all contributed to the transformations manifested in the current movement for democracy in Iran.
The socializing and politicizing impacts of the 1979 Revolution on women, especially on the traditional and conservative segments of women’s population helped expand the size and influence of middle class women in Iranian society. Initially formed during the years of modernization under the Pahlavi dynasty in 1920s to 1970s, the modern middle class, urban women of Iran made up the core of the women’s groups who resisted the discriminatory policies and laws enacted under the Islamist government since 1979.
They were later joined by an increasing number of Islamic women activists and devout Muslim women members of the traditionalist and conservative strata who gradually became disillusioned with the Islamist utopia and moved toward a reformist reconstruction of the polity and a feminist reinterpretation of their faith. This was due to their encounter with patriarchal injustices such as polygamy, temporary marriages, male privileges in divorce, child custody, and inheritance, and many other discriminatory laws and policies reinforced by the Islamic Republic. The increasing socioeconomic or class disparity, corruption, and particularly the government repression of individual freedoms and civil rights turned many female and male members of the younger generations away from the Islamist state.
Therefore, the youth, especially the student movement and the women’s movement make up now the main forces of the current civil rights effort and constitute the primary agents of change and democratization in Iran .
Elections in Iran are neither free nor fair. People are allowed to choose only among a few candidates who have passed the screening process and been vetted by an unelected body called the Guardian Council.[3] It was only a few months before the June 12 elections that the overall mood shifted from political apathy and hopelessness to a sense of hope for change, which resulted in a vast mobilization to participate in voting. This was mainly due to the progressive platforms for change presented by the two reformist front-runners: Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karrubi. What distinguished the reform candidates from the incumbent president Ahmadinejad was their promises to stop the latter’s onslaught on civil rights, to improve the rights of women and religious and ethnic minorities, to mend the mismanaged economy (marked by 25 percent inflation and rising unemployment), and to change the hostile and confrontational foreign policy and militarization that have resulted in the UN resolutions against Iran, economic sanctions, and the threat of Western military attacks and war, which have created an overall sense of national insecurity and isolation.
Among women activists too, it took a while to overcome the widespread hesitance to engage in the electoral process, especially by those who had lost all hope for political reform and trust in any of the candidates. About three months before the Election Day, however, an increasing number of feminists and women’s groups decided to take advantage of the relative openness of the political atmosphere during the election times in order to render an active feminist intervention into the process. They formed a diverse coalition called Convergence of Women (Hamgarayee Zanan) that represented 42 women’s groups and 700 individual activists. The coalition pressed the presidential candidates on two specific sets of women’s demands: ratification of CEDAW and revision of four Articles (19, 20, 21, and 115) in the constitution that enshrine gender-based discrimination.[4] Though as individuals, many feminists did take sides and voted for one of the two reform candidates, the coalition remained a demand-centered (motalebeh-mehvar) campaign only and avoided endorsement of any particular candidate. It rather put each candidate on the spot to address women’s issues and respond to the demands specified by the coalition.
The coalition tried to bring women’s issues to the surface through their publications and through appearances in the media, on the campaign trails and at street rallies, press conferences, and interviews with the candidates. They effectively utilized the new communication technology (SMS via cell phones, e-mails, and the Internet) to network and mobilize activists. Meanwhile, a film made by a prominent feminist director, Rakhshan Banietemad, put all of these efforts together in a documentary accessible on the Internet. The film included revealing interviews on women’s issues with some prominent artists and the presidential candidates while they were sitting along with their wives. Except for Ahmadinejad, the three other presidential candidates agreed to participate.
It should be noted that prior to the 2009 electoral campaigns, a new wave of women’s collective activism had already brought women’s demands for equal rights into the political scene. Following a growing trend in activities of women’s press and women NGOs since 1998 and some street demonstrations in 2004 and 2005, a number of organized and focused collective campaigns took shape since 2006. The largest, most grassroots and influential one has been the One Million Signatures Campaign to change discriminatory laws.[5] Other campaigns and coalitions included: the Stop Stoning Forever Campaign; the Women for Equal Citizenship Campaign; the Women’s Access to Public Stadiums Campaign; the National Women’s Charter Campaign; and the Mothers for Peace.[6] Despite the peaceful and transparent nature of the Iranian women’s movement, many women’s activists have faced state repression such as smear campaigns by the state-run media, beating, and arrests by security forces. In the course of the five years prior to the presidential elections, over 70 women activists were arrested and taken to Evin Prison and charged with “disruption of public opinion,” “propagating against the state”, and “endangering of national security.” While most of detainees were released on bail in a few weeks, some have been sentenced to several months or even several years of imprisonment.[7]
All of these efforts contributed to the visible changes in the gender politics of the 10th presidential election in 2009, which distinguished it from previous races. For one, all of the three candidates running against Ahmadinejad promised to address women’s demands raised by the coalition and to also include woman ministers in their cabinets should they get elected. The front-runner candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, was usually accompanied by his wife, Zahra Rahnavard, with whom he held hands—a bold and unprecedented act in the Iranian sex-segregated political culture. Rahnavard, a prominent Muslim woman activist, an accomplished writer, academic, and artist is the first woman to become a university president in Iran . Her stature, strong personality, outspokenness about human/women’s rights, and colorful headscarf were among the traits that added to the appeal of this couple as a promising choice for change.
The other reform candidate, Mehdi Karrubi, also conducted a much more woman-friendly campaign than the one he ran in 2005 during the previous elections. Though a clergyman, his campaign team—composed of some respected reformers—included a prominent woman activist, Jamila Kadivar, as the spokesperson of his campaign headquarters. His wife, a strong professional woman, was also actively involved in the management of his campaign. Even the conservative candidate, Mohsen Rezai, was seen accompanied by his wife in several campaign meetings. Finally, Ahmadinejad himself felt compelled to bring along his wife during one of campaign events.
In short, both in symbolism and content, the 10th presidential elections signified considerable progress in gender politics in Iran . This progress has been mainly due to years of slow but persistent efforts by women toward consciousness-raising and feminist interventions in cultural and political arenas. As briefly mentioned above, in recent years, the women’s rights movement in Iran has been manifested in feminist press (print journals as well as online web logs and websites); arts, literature, and movies; organized and focused collective campaigns through networking; and other activities in various NGOs.[8]
As discussed earlier, women’s presence in the post-election Green Movement has been as prominent as the one in the election process. The prevalence of artistic images, songs, and poetry, especially the choice of the color green as the unifying symbol, gave the reform camp a sort of “feminine” tone. This rather spiritual, artistic, and peaceful mood that predominated because of the presence of many young people, especially young women, continued during the first days of protests in the aftermath of the election.
In the vote’s aftermath, millions of marchers, while flashing victory signs (instead of clenched fists), carried green-colored banners with the slogan: “Where is My Vote?” This simple yet profound slogan signifies a prevalent keenness on civil and political rights. The color green signifies symbolism rooted in both the national Islamic and the secular, pre-Islamic mythology and poetry of Iran but also as the global color of peace, nonviolence and environmental protection.
Despite increasingly violent suppression, over 3000 arrests and around 60 deaths (according to official figures), the activists who are engaged in the Green Movement so far have remained, for the most part, non-violent. Women’s roles as political actors, journalists, lawyers, and activist demonstrators are clearly evident in the increasing number of women who are beaten, injured, killed, or arrested as political prisoners since the June 12 upheavals.[9]
Even the first icon of the current civil rights movement is a woman: Neda Agha-Soltan, who was gunned down by the government-controlled militia while peacefully demonstrating. Her death was captured by a cell phone camera for all the world’s eyes to see, and it turned her into a martyr, which inspired more demonstrations and the outrage that followed.
Neda’s characteristics are representative of some of the demographic, gender, and class orientations of the current civil rights movement in Iran . Her young age (27 years old) reminds us of the 70 percent of Iran’s population below age 30 who are faced with increasing rates of unemployment, socio-political repression, and humiliation should Ahmadinejad’s repressive and militaristic policies continue for another four years. Neda’s Azeri ethnic background reminds us of Iran ’s ethnic diversity and the ongoing tension between the center and peripheries over socioeconomic disparity, discrimination, and uneven distribution of power and resources. Neda’s choice of field of study, theology and philosophy, was based on her quest to find answers to the questions of her time. But, as described by her mother, she became disappointed with the increasingly repressive atmosphere of the universities and so she turned to private training in music. Her music teacher was actually with her on the day of the protest (June 20, 2009) and was at her side when she was shot.[10] Neda belonged to no political party or ideological group. Her quest was basically for freedom and a democratic society that would respect her human rights and dignity as a woman.
Another icon of this movement, a 19 year-old male student, Sohrab Árabi, was reportedly killed while in the custody of the security forces. He became a rallying point mainly due to his mother’s daring to speak out about her ordeal. Parvin Fahimi, who finally recovered the body of her son after three weeks of searching from one prison to another, has become a leading advocate of families of political prisoners and mothers of martyred activists who have formed a new women’s group called Mothers in Mourning (Madaran-e Azadar).[11] To commemorate their lost children and also demand the release of the arrested ones, mothers of martyrs and political prisoners hold once-a-week rallies in designated public parks in Tehran. Following a call by Shirin Ebadi, a leading human rights lawyer and Nobel Laureate for Peace 2003, Iranian mothers in other parts of Iran and the world have begun holding similar rallies on a weekly basis as a show of global solidarity with women in Iran .
The Green Movement is a home-grown product of a long quest for reform, democracy, and rule of law in Iran . Ironically, it emerged from within the former revolutionary Islamists disillusioned with totalitarian Islamism and was welcomed by many secular dissident groups who have suffered from years of repression and marginalization under the Islamist regime. This cracking from within is in part due to the internal contradictions embedded in the institutional hybrid called the “Islamic Republic.” In the face of a growing movement for democracy and secular rule of law, the tense coexistence of its theocratic, unelected component (Islamic) with the elected popular authority (Republic) now seems untenable.
In the aftermath of what many called the “electoral coup,” the state power is taken over by the increasingly powerful hard-line military (the Revolutionary Guard) and its conservative clerical allies. This alliance seems determined to erode the republican part of the IR hybrid regime and further consolidate its theocratic and unelected component as the real power. But new cracks along with the long-existing ones within the ranks of the Shii clerics seem to be deepening and multiplying. The post-election wave of repression; the violent crackdown on peaceful and legal demonstrations, torture, show trials and lies, and the revelation of cases of rape and sexual abuse of the political prisoners have expanded people’s distrust of and resentment toward the government, hence a legitimacy crisis for the regime.
Ahmadinejad was the only one among the four candidates running for presidency who made no mention of women’s issues in his platform. His first term of presidency too was not only negligent of women’s demands but also associated with more retrogressive gender policies such as the proposition of the infamous “Family Bill” in 2008 to facilitate polygamy. Yet, at the beginning of his second term in August 2009, Ahmadinejad surprised many by announcing the nomination of three women to his new cabinet as ministers of education, health, and welfare and social security. This move, unprecedented in the history of the Islamic Republic, was unexpected and will probably prove unacceptable by his conservative allies, especially the clerics in Qum and may not receive enough votes of approval in the Majlis (parliament).
His opponents, on the other hand, women’s rights activists in particular, see this move as a sheer hypocrisy and a deceptive political show. This, they argue, displays Ahmadinejad’s desperate attempt to appease women who have become his main challengers. Furthermore, the hardliner background of the nominated women indicates that Ahmadinejad is planning to instrumentally use these women against the women’s rights movement. Though highly educated, all the three nominated women have very negative records concerning women’s rights. They have played active roles in support of anti-women legislations such as the notorious “Family Bill” and in opposition to progressive reforms.
Iran ’s situation remains fluid as new developments unfold. The prospect for women’s rights, especially in the medium and long terms, seems to be promising and hopeful. The growing quest for democracy is finally becoming intertwined with women’s rights. This is indicative of a paradigm shift in Iran ’s political culture and intellectual discourse. In the background of the latest changes in gender politics in Iran , even Ahmadinejad would feel compelled to show some positive gestures in his gender policies. But with the numerous women activists arrested, beaten, imprisoned, and some even killed under his presidency, he can hardly convince people of his good intention toward improvement of women’s status.[12]
The main subject of discussion among the Iranian advocates of women’s rights at present is how to integrate women’s demands with the broader quest for reform and democracy in the face of the increasing repression. They are seeking ways to continue rendering a feminist intervention in the current democracy movement in order to assure its direction is toward a nonviolent, nonsectarian, pluralistic, and egalitarian future. This is a daunting struggle, yet also an exciting and inspiring process, from which global feminism, especially women activists in Muslim communities, can learn many new lessons.
[2] CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination against Women was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979. Currently, 185 countries - over ninety percent of the members of the United Nations - are party to the Convention. During the reform oriented presidency of Mohamad Khatami (1997-2005), CEDAW was passed in parliament in 2003, albeit with several reservations. But the Guardian Council blocked its ratification and the final decision was left upon another body, the Expediency Council. The latter has kept it shelved since then and the hardliners in power have not even tried to reconsider this convention.
[3] The Guardian Council is composed of six clerics appointed by the unelected supreme leader and six jurists selected by the head of the judiciary for approval by the Majlis. This powerful body vets legislation, political candidates and election results.
[6] For more information and documentation on these campaigns, see Nayereh Tohidi “The Women’s Movement and Feminism in Iran: A Glocal Perspective,” in Women's Movements in a Global Era edited by Amrita Basu, Westview Press, forthcoming, and also Rochelle Terman, "The Contemporary Iranian Women's Rights Movement," Women Living Under Muslim Laws, (forthcoming).
[8] For some analysis by women activists inside Iran about the role of women’s movement in the current uprising see, for example:
Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, “Ten Days that Shook Iran,” July 30, 2009: http://www.feministschool.com/english/spip.php?article322
[9] On arrested women activists and the conditions of women prisoners, see the following report by Shadi Sadr, a prominent feminist lawyer written after her own release from Evin prison:
[12] See, for example, the following commentaries by women activists against Ahmadinejad’s appointment of women to his cabinet: Massoumeh Torfeh, “Hardline women won’t help Iran ” in Guardian, 17 August 2009:
Nayereh Tohidi is a Professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Department at California State University , Northridge and a Research Associate at the Center for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA, where she has been coordinating the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran since 2003.
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