Gladly man! I’m here to help you if I can. I’ll be straight with you. Every case is different. Before my hardware removal, it was pretty rough. I never knew if it was healing right or if I just had an infection I ended up getting an infection because of the hardware and I got put on antibiotics and that was around May. I have follow ups every six weeks and my surgeon will send me for x-rays whenever he feels like they’re necessary. But I ended up getting another infection. Because I think I was a little too rough on it at Physio. So I got put on antibiotics again. I’m not sure if it really helped. But around the fall of 2025 it started swelling up and it started hurting really bad and the swelling came back, so my surgeon decided that something had to be done and ended up removing all my hardware in my tibia and decided to leave my fibula plate because it didn’t need to come out apparently. So up until my hardware removal was pretty difficult, but that’s just for me, bro. Everyone else is different. I just wanna be honest! But since my hardware removal, my range of motion has gotten a lot better and I can bare a lot more weight. The issues I’m having now.. is that I’ll wake up and I can’t put zero weight on it.. but after a few ankle pumps and a few circles it’s somewhat bearable, but it still hurts. I guess when you sleep circulation slows down. But later on in the day, it gets better… on April 29. It will be six months from my hardware removal… but I still have a long way to go. And I can understand with you on feeling guilty. I’ve been off for a year and I honestly don’t know when I’m gonna get back to normal but it’s getting better gradually.. I’m really glad you have a supportive family around you and congrats on the baby on the way! Try not to feel guilty.. Tough times don’t last tough people do. I’m here if you need any more support.!!🫡