Toe-gate

Despite my positive attitude about my transformation into a gym bunny, there may be hinderances along the way; particularly, my toe.
I broke my left big toe about three months ago, and really, this is a massive understatement.

This is the least graphic of the pictures I have of the offending digit, as you can probably tell form the amount of blood, it was an open fracture. 

In total since September I have had 1 visit to A&E, 1 visit to a walk in clinic to see a nurse and 6 appointments at the fracture clinic in the hospital. I have had 4 sets of X-rays, 2 local anaesthetics, 2 courses of antibiotics and I think about 8 separate procedures ranging from wound cleaning and dressing changes, to having the bones reset and my toenail removed. 

The fracture has healed now, and I was discharged from the fracture clinic in early-ish December. However, the reason I'm a little concerned now, is that I had an intra-articular fracture, which is basically a fancy way of saying that I broke the joint in my toe. This means that although healed, the joint is still very stiff, and doesn't have complete mobility yet. I'm also still having pain in other parts of my foot while walking, which the doctor says is soft tissue damage caused possibly by walking funny to avoid putting weight on the toe.

But I'm hoping that starting off gently will give it time to adjust, and maybe help it to fully recover even quicker? We'll have to see.