Reply #44: Ouch and sorry about your

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ankle. I rented a wheel chair for the uncoordinated hubby. It is only $5. a week from our local family owned pharmacy. He (we) are really hoping he can avoid surgery so I have been strict on him while he is in the splint. We will find out more tomorrow. Having looked at his x-rays compared to my feet I told him to forget about whining. We can't tell for sure where the break is. He, the man that has an iron stomach and once cleaned up body parts from crashes could not stand to see my x-rays. I really wish I had saved mine to the computer. Then again I was in too much pain to think clearly. So far he is doing pretty good about behaving and entertaining himself. He has also learned the hard way to not over do it and is keeping his foot up more now.

As for carrying things with crutches, when I graduated out of the wheel chair (5 months later) to crutches I used a backpack to carry whatever with me. Does not work for everything but it made life easier. Pool therapy is the best, especially for feet and legs though Myra makes a case for the arms. I still use the pool to try to get my foot back to something like normal. I hope you have a speedy, as pain free as possible recovery. :hug:



Adding, I looked at the scooter when my foot was broken, problem was both my feet were broken so it wouldn't help. One foot and that would be the way I would go.