I think that you have answered my original question in your first post. You attended your usual place of work as soon as you could drive. Which is also what my manager has said that they would deem me fully fit when I can drive, so that’s something to aim for. Thank you for your input.
Sorry but if you are up and walking with a boot then you should be able to go back to work, it may take some minor adjustments from your work place but they need to manage those.
From Injury to operation for me was nearly 15 months, most of that time was spent on crutches. After the initial injury I had 2 weeks off and then returned to work on crutches. I used my phone and email a heck of a lot more than I had previously, colleagues were good enough to bring cups of tea to my desk (cant carry them with crutches), printing was picked up by whoever was about and brought to me, I skyped into meetings that were on floors above where I was allowed to go, if someone from a different building needed a meeting they either came to me or we managed via skype, H&S made adjustments to their fire evacuation procedure to aid me in getting out safely and I was restricted from the lab (still managed to train someone on some equipment via skype though). Heck I even managed to attend a meeting with a test house at thier testing facilities, travelling via train (normally I would have driven but was not allowed to due to it being my right ankle) with 3 changes and a taxi ride on either end all whilst on crutches
As I said previously After the operation I was back in work after 4 weeks, still with stitches in my ankle, with a boot and crutches. I only took so long because I absolutely hated my job, had been stressed to hell and didnt want to have to go back at all.
I started my new job whilst still in the boot.