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Seriously??? Seriously???

I have a week between my last physical therapy appointment and my next one tomorrow, and my goal was to walk with my cane as much as possible. I know the more I walk with it the better I will get. The first couple days were great. My PT does not want me to walk with my cane by myself, so Jerry and I headed up to the fourth floor where I have a ballet barrre and a narrow hallway. I would walk one way holding onto the bar with my left hand, then I'd turn around and use my cane, with the security of knowing the barre and the wall were right there. It was going great until Sunday. That's the day my left foot (ie., my real foot) stopped working. You heard me right. My left foot stopped working. In technical terms, I have something called foot drop. In other words, my left foot will not flex. I thought it was some kind of fluke, like my left foot falling asleep and it would fix itself, but on Monday when it was still there I sent a message to my primary care physician, and the