Usually you can take the air cast on and off for bathing. I had a pretty serious ankle break a few years ago and I was able to do that relatively quickly. Though looking at my ankle kind of grossed me out so I tried to avoid that for a while.
As for other tips, I got a wheelchair from the Red Cross for moving around the house. I was OK with crutches, but they got old pretty quickly. And for sleeping, a pillow under the cast helped, but ultimately there's no comfortable way to sleep. I ended up rotating through sedatives and antihistamines for the first month or two to make sure I could sleep through the night.
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