See What I Said About Inconsistency?

So this weekend, I won’t be traveling anywhere since I have some work-related things to take care of, so I started looking back through the archives to see if there were shots I wanted to re-edit. I also realized that this was the first entry since January, which proves my point about inconsistencies. Anyway . . .

. . . as I started looking through my 2016 files for the possibility of editing some shots I didn’t think of at the time, I actually winced at some of the photos.

Not because some of the shots were bad (to be fair, there were a few shots where I thought to myself . . . “Ryan, what the heck is this?”) but because that was the year I tore my Achilles tendon. I have a very visceral reaction now whenever I watch basketball or any other sport for that matter, and see a player go down on a “non-contact” injury that involves the lower leg. I always recoil whenever I see that on television.

I also remember having the injury misdiagnosed and going through a month and half of physical therapy on a torn Achilles (that . . . is an entirely different story). But I digress. I remember the desire, after my operation to reattach my Achilles, to work as hard as I could during therapy to keep up with the recovery timeline laid out for me. If I worked hard enough, I could’ve been in a walking boot without crutches by December, which I accomplished. I actually have a shot of Emerald Bay where I took a “legs dangling” selfie, walking boot included. I thought it would be funny to have my walking boot on, dangling over a rock and the snow covered landscape.

In retrospect, this wasn’t the best thing to do, but I remember thinking I had to get out somewhere. I had also been cleared to start walking without crutches at this point. So I wanted to test it ;)

So the capture following the next few paragraphs was also a shot I took while hobbling around in my walking boot, testing myself at that point since I had just been authorized to start walking without my crutches. It was a pretty good test as I had to navigate a bit of snow and sand with my walking boot. I was so relieved to abandon the crutches, as moving food and drinks by yourself with crutches was a hell of a thing to do. Also, walking up and down stairs as well! So a chance to walk without it, to get back to some semblance of a bipedal motion was very welcome.

I might have to gather up the shots I took while recovering from Achilles rupture. It shows a bit of determination I think!

Shot with my old T5i. Good little camera that was.