Things you can't do with a shattered ankle

[bamademo]

1. Walk
2. Step aerobics
3. Dance
4. Jungle Sex
5. Take out garbage
6. Drive your 5 speed Eclipse
7. Vacuum
8. Hiking
9. ...

Add your own.

I'm in the 7th week of non weight bearing and just starting physical therapy. I can go back to work in 2 weeks. I'm fortunate to have a desk job and an extra vehicle ( a horrible gray van with terrible gas mileage and broken a/c). I can drive myself and I have graduated from a wheelchair to a walker.

Whee!

[begin_within]

1. They aren't good for rolling out pie crusts with.

[Sanity Claws]

2. Ouch!

:hug:
I've been feeling sorry for myself because I sprained my wrist two weeks ago. I needed to read your message to see that I have it easy.
Are you into alternative or energy medicine? If you are, get back to me. I may be able to give you Reiki medicine this weekend.
Take care.

[bamademo]

4. I don't think alternative medicine will heal a shattered ankle

I had a metal plate and 15 screws put in it. I would prefer AM! :-)

[Sanity Claws]

6. Yikes!

How did that happen? If it's too traumatic to write about, that's okay.
As for alternative medicine, it might just help the natural process of healing. Despite the metal plate and screws, the doctors are counting on the body's natural ability to heal bone, right?

[bamademo]

7. I walked up wet steps in flip flops

My foot slipped off and *boom* I was laying on the ground. BF picked me up and put me in the car and to the ER we went. My foot was dislocated and was at a 90 degree angle to the front of my leg.

[Sanity Claws]

8. It hurts even to read the story

I'm glad to hear that you got good medical care.

[taterguy]

3. Sky diving

Well, you might be able to but I wouldn't recommend it.

Sorry about your ankle

[bamademo]

10. I'm lucky, I have insurance...

and short term disability that I've paid for years and I considered dropping it. My surgery was 30,000 dolahs!

[mwooldri]

13. Well... the diving part would be OK...

... it'd be the landing that would be the bugger.

[Zavulon]

5. Use a trampoline. (NT)

[Mutley]

9. Wow, that sucks.

I only sprained my ankle a little over a month ago and it still hurts. I can't imagine if I'd shattered it. :scared:

:hug:

[Awsi Dooger]

11. My mom had an external fixator put on today

Ten days ago she broke her right ankle in 3 places at 4:30 AM two days after I left Miami, after helping her recover from a diabetic coma on Christmas Eve. Surgery took several hours today.

I knew that was the dangerous time, late at night when she walks around the house while wobbly and mostly out of it. I always stayed up until the 4 AM range to help her, but once I was gone the house was dark and she stumbled over a doctor's scale and her right ankle got stuck in the bottom of a little table. Her ankle broke in 3 places including bone fragments, one of which they had to leave in there.

The initial procedure to set the ankle failed last week. So they decided to use the external fixator along with pins. At least there's no cast but she has to keep weight off the foot for 6 months which is an unfathomable hurdle. She's 73 and has Parkinsonism so she can't fully grasp everything and forgets even the most important and oft repeated recommendations. I can't imagine she won't wake up and try to walk somewhere.

My dad said the external fixator is about 11 inches wide at one point, so I don't know how that works with changing clothes.

[moriah]

12. I can add a few!

Sleep comfortably
Carry things (because you are using crutches/walker/etc)
Chase after kids
Chase after cats/dogs/ferrets

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Wait until you graduate to crutches.

Then you can learn the fine art of Crutch-Fu.

You may not be able to do much else, but metal crutches make fine blunt instruments, and work at a longer distance than a knife or kicking. My sister successfully fended off her psycho ex husband who tried to kidnap her off of our front porch when she sprained her ankle, using the fine art of Crutch-Fu.

Let me know when you wish to be initiated into the Mystical School of the Crutch-Fu, I need to check my schedule...

(Fell better soon!)
^^^^^
Edit: Uh, I mean feel.... I swear....

[mwooldri]

14. Ouch. Hope it mends well soon for you.

In the meantime... all my best.

Mark.

[applegrove]

15. Hoping you get much better soon.

[azmouse]

16. Kick a football.

Hope you heal quickly.

[Shine]

17. OMG, that totally sucks!!

I am sending you all my best wishes for healing. :hug: Hang in there.

Nothing like recovering from something like this to make you appreciate the little things we normally do and take for granted, right?

[Maddy McCall]

18. Potty.

Sucks pottying when you have a leg injury.

[Tektonik]

19. Ouch I thought I had it bad with my head cold that creeped onto me out of nowhere

:hangover:

[lost-in-nj]

20. I would so miss

the Jungle sex

everything else??

fuck it!!!!!!


get better soon!!!!!!



:hug:


:hi:


lost

on edit- when I was 14 I shattered my nose
they had to re-break it to set it right

then put tubing with (cocaine in it) up there for the pain

my eyes were black and blue for ever

[Z_I_Peevey]

21. Perform a tribute to Michael Flatley.

Or, stomp on Riverdance DVDs.