So yesterday, May 1st , not only marked the day of dancing around may poles with flowers in your hair (the OG dirty hippies!), or the stupid union s who high jacked the day to celebrate a massacre and disorder by THEM (jerks) or even the day Osama was gotten rid of. No, it also marked the 4 week mark of my ankle break. Much bigger news – I KNOW!<\/p>\n
Anyway – got my check up today. X-ray showed it was still broken. Dammit. Was hoping it was a dream like Bobby taking a shower and coming out and seeing Pamela and that whole dreadful season was a dream…I digress…my doc showed me the break. I saw 2 breaks. He said my break is called a spiral fracture. He said because we are looking at the x-ray straight on, it looks like 2 breaks. He said imagine taking an empty paper towel roll and twisting both ends until it spiraled up. That’s my bone.\u00a0 Uhh….no…let’s NOT imagine that!<\/p>\n
But he said (obviously) not healed yet, but still aligned so that’s great. I asked “should it still hurt this much?” He scoffed. Out loud. Sheesh. He said yes. The soreness, pain, swelling – all normal. Now, if all of a sudden I get a SHARP sudden pain = not good! But achey, uncomfortable pain = all fine. That’s good…I guess. He pressed on my BROKEN fibula and asked if it hurt – YES! WHAT THE HELL? Then pressed on the tibia side – no – didn’t really hurt, just sore. He said yep – all normal. Witch doctor.<\/p>\n
I asked how long did he expect till the bone is healed. 6-8 weeks. WHAT? More?! ARGH! I asked when could I exercise, walk the dogs. He scoffed…out loud…again. I said come on – a mile or 2? Not 20. No hills! He said well, in 4 weeks I could try it with my boot on. But I will be hurting. A lot. Sounds fun! :\/\u00a0 He said he’d prefer I wait to do anything like that until I get my next x-ray in 6 weeks. Ugh. But he said I should schedule physical therapy appointments for a couple weeks from now. I don’t want physical therapy appointments – I want dog walking on the beach appointments.<\/p>\n
I did get a smaller air cast thingie to wear at night – no more boot to bed!!! YAY!!!! And I can wear it around the house too. Not out and about yet. But progress….<\/p>\n
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