One week down....

[OakLeaf]

Glad you're making progress!

I think the hesitancy is normal and probably healthy. Even a short time in a cast leads to a LOT of muscle atrophy, plus a lot of the proprioceptors live in the fascia, which will now have to find a completely different route around your foot than they did before your surgery. IME, doctors really tend to neglect the neuromuscular side of things. If it's not contraindicated, what I would be doing is a lot of non-weight-bearing movement of the foot and ankle, just to get your proprioceptors firing again, and accustomed to their new arrangement. Drawing the alphabet with each toe individually, that kind of thing.