I'm sorry to hear about your injury- I worked with a guy in 1994 who had fallen off an 8-foot ladder in 1989 after getting his foot stuck between the tool tray and the top step- it almost ripped his foot clean off. He said there were only two tendons holding on. It took him about a year before he was fully functioning again. We were fire fighters together for the Forest Service and he said he got into fire to "strengthen that ankle."
He's the owner/operator of his own commercial fishing boat here now.