i hurt myself awfully badly and need some sympathy. updated: ankle is fractured

[csziggy]

45. Oh good - crutches are safer!

I spent most of a year on crutches while in college, for two ankle injuries, neither one of them breaks.

First time, a horse reared and snatched me forward. I came down wrong on the left ankle, pulled some ligaments and was non-weight bearing for four months.

Second time, was with the same horse. First time I could ride after the other injury, she spooked at a passing truck, spun out, slipped on the asphalt road and fell on my right ankle. Because the stirrup and the saddle "cradled" my ankle, it wasn't broken, just crushed. Burst the bursa surrounding the ankle joint, moved all those little bones around, and bruised it to hell and back - my leg was black from the knee down.

That one took over seven months before I was stable on the leg. I should have seen an orthopedist, but the university clinic said it wasn't broken, nothing needed to be done other than to wrap it and not put weight on it. It's amazing that ankle works!

I hope you get good news from the doctors!