I’m 4 weeks and 3 days into this “couch-rest” as I am still no weigh bearing for at least another 2-6 weeks. I have been following the doctor’s order to the T since the surgery day. I won’t know until I meet up with the PT, which probably won’t be until after Labor Day. I’m OVER IT.<\/p>\n
*sigh* I’ve got to the point where I really hate having to ask people to retrieve me things I need because of the looks\/body language I get when I ask. *sigh* I can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to cry. It also makes me feel guilty for having the surgery but it was necessary at that point to repair the damages. I’m limited to what I can do myself and staying off the foot as well.<\/p>\n
All I’m asking is that to please be mindful of your facial expression and body language when someone needs your help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m 4 weeks and 3 days into this “couch-rest” as I am still no weigh bearing for at least another 2-6 weeks. I have been following the doctor’s order to the T since the surgery day. I won’t know until I meet up with the PT, which probably won’t be until after Labor Day. I’m … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-recovery"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/images.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeniferbenner.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}