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Graduating!

I’ve officially graduated from physical therapy today.
It’s been exactly five months from the day of the accident.

At PT today, I told them that exactly five months ago, I was in surgery.
Five months ago today, at 8 am, I was laying in the street bleeding and just absolutely gushing blood.

In about 150 days, I went from horrifically injured to hiking.

I mean, FFS I went HIKING saturday. 2 miles or so over a total altitude difference of 400 feet.

At the appointment today, my therapist stuck me on the treadmill. I put the incline all the way up to a 20% grade. I power-walked at 2.5mph for 11 minutes for my warm up.

Then they had me skip and run. Then I showed off that I could tiptoe barefoot and hopscotch, including balancing on my right leg and reaching down to touch the ground and coming back up, as if I were picking up the rock I threw on the hopscotch chalk.
I ran up and down stairs at the same speed I did before the accident.

All the therapists and therapists assistants were watching me. I’d been going every week for 3 months, three times a week for 2 months of that. From how I’d improved my very first visit, dragging my leg in with a weak skin graft and in pain every day.

They all clapped as I skipped and ran. Everyone was shocked at how much I’d improved. My limp is barely noticeable now.

Some days now, I’ll wake up and it won’t hurt at all. I only remembered that my foot is mangled when I look down at it.

I’ve cried so much today. It’s been such an amazing day.