Racing

Today was the day - 9 weeks and 5 days after the bone graft operation on my femur, today they took a new xray to see if the fracture is repairing.

And it is!

It's not completely there yet, but there's definitely new bone growth in the gaps - you can see a mass of shadow around the top, and bits of shadowy new bone elsewhere:

The consultant wants to see me again in 8 weeks, and told me that I was OK to put 100% of my weight on the leg. He also said that if I overdid it, any pain was likely to show up during the night (i.e. not at the time), so to be careful and take things gradually.

Another thing he noted was that I have a screw loose - the lower screw retaining the nail above the knee has worked out a bit. He's not bothered about it unless it gets worse and starts to cause me some pain

So then I hobbled down to physio, and practised walking with one stick. It seems that in the past 6 months my body has developed a distinct list to port to protect the right leg, and I actually found it hard to walk upright with even weight distribution. And, although the muscles in my leg look ok, they're very weak - after 15 mins of walking on the leg (still using one stick), the muscles were fatigued and threatening to fold up under me. But the muscle strength should come back quickly, especially as I'll be having physio twice a week between now and Christmas.

Anyway, I'm a bloody happy chap :-)