ankle update.. day 16..
It’s been 16 days since I broke my ankle now… here’s what’s been goin on, I’m sure you’ve been wondering. The ankle is still painful if it’s not elevated, but nearly not at much pain as before.. I’m down to my last percocet, which is a little sad… waah. It was nice while it lasted, but I guess I’m just supposed to use ibuprofen now if it hurts, which is not nearly as nice.
I finally got to see an xray of that they did to my ankle.. Wow. Frankly, I had no idea that there was that much hardware in my ankle. I was picturing maybe a pin or two.. but there are like six screws (including one huge one that goes all the way across) and one plate. Wowsers. That big screw is just stabilizing the whole thing, so that will come out in a few months. I imagine that’s not gonna tickle.
I got the soft cast off today, the one that they put on after the surgery. It was weird to see my foot (I have a picture of it, but I’ve not posted it, cuz it’s kinda yuck). My foot was slightly swollen, and the incision is quite a nice one, about four inches tall right on the side of my ankle. The wound was stapled shut, and they removed the staples today — that was quite unpleasant. Ouch.
And they put on a proper hard cast, so now I’m ready for people to come and sign it. Maybe I’ll paint something nice on there since I’m gonna have this for the next month or so… The whole time the cast was being put on, I was thinking to myself.. “Oh Jeez.. is this how I want my foot to be for the next month?? Hmm.. wait, no.. maybe a little to the left.. Oh man, it’s setting… umm… hmm.. it’s set? oh. well, I guess that’s it.” Yah, so I hope this is where I want my foot to be since that’s where it’s gonna be for awhile. The doc gave me a walking cast, so at least I’ll be able to hobble around without crutches as soon as I get used to it. Granted, my cast leg is gonna be effectively longer than my other leg, so I’ll either a need big platform shoe to even it out, or I’ll just walk all uneven and stuff.
But.. all being said and done, the doc says that I’m healing up quite nicely and he expects that I’ll have a fully working ankle that I can run on and do everything that I need to do on it.. Wahoo.
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