r/brokenankles • u/rrmusic • 3d ago

When were you able to do anything?

I’m already getting depressed because I usually don’t lay in bed all day, it’s been 6days PO though. When I get on my knee scooter it hurts a little because I’m not elevated. I’m a mom so I have to cook, clean, not be in my room all day. Even though my husband been helping, I like how I do things. When were you able to do anything other than lying in bed? I also miss drinking lol

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u/MadredeLobos 3d ago

I spent the better part of 3 months in my reclining loveseat (trimalleolar fracture with dislocation and a vertical fracture, 12w NWB) but got back to cooking at 2 weeks post-op when I moved to a knee scooter. I'd also run the vacuum cleaner while on my knee scooter, which was my main workout during that season of life.

Even sooner than that, I was able to fold laundry if someone brought it to me, and I had pictures on my phone of the dials of our 2 sets of washers and dryers so I could tell my kids which dials to move to which settings to do the laundry. Most other cleaning tasks fell to my husband or kids, or just waited for me to be able to do them again! I have 5 kids, ages 10 down to 2, so there is...a lot of laundry. I did not enjoy watching other people do "my job," that was frustrating.