In 2019 I badly broke my fibula just above ankle, with significant ligament damage (in ankle). I broke it on a 6' tall mini ramp doing "set-up" trick I've done 1,000s of times before; nollie rock to fakie. Lots of hardware. Two surgeries. Didn't skate for a year. Had to learn to walk again, let alone skate.
In early 2020 I was cleared to skate again. The orthopedic guy made a really poignant comment to me that I will never forget, "You no longer have any restrictions, but you will certainly have limitations. What those are, and how you manage them, is for you to find out."
Once back on the board, it took me three days to do an ollie to axle stall on a curb. My ankle/leg/calf muscle was still incredibly week. I could not "run out" of anything. My ankle would just give out/explode in pain when I came dowm on it too hard. I started wearing almost full pads just to do stall tricks on a curb. A year later, things are much better. I can meaningfully skate again, but it will never be the same as before the injury. I still have pretty significant "reinjury anxiety" sometimes, and there are few tricks I haven't tried again yet (f/s nose blunts on ramps, for example. I broke my front foot, so the idea of landing with all my weight on that foot still scares me). My primary care doctor also told me, "Your body will heal much faster than your mind." He was correct.
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