So, 97 days ago I fell down the stairs (Yeah, I counted.) Actually, to be honest, it was so much falling down the stairs. I know when I say that you picture at the to[p of a long narrow staircase and tumbling down, head over heels and barely escaping with my life. What really happened? I was step away from the bottom and I missed the last step. I hit the floor wrong, my right ankle and my left foot turned and well...the rest, as they say, is history.
The point of this post is not to confess my lack of grace because frankly, I doubt that comes as a surprise to anyone who has ever met me. I can fall standing still. The point of this post is to tell anyone who cares where I am at right now in my recovery. And yes I am still recovering 97 days later.
The cast came off my ankle in August and I was glad. Once the cast came off I knew it was healed even before they did the Xray, it felt right. It was weak and it still is but it is healed. It is still a little swollen and still causes me pain but I am led to believe this is normal. Hopefully in a few weeks it will feel back to normal.
As for my foot...this leaves me a little frustrated. When I was diagnosed (By the ER and the ortho doctor) I was given the impression that the ankle was a bad break (Just shy of the surgery requirements) and the foot was much less severe and would require less attention. Now I am being told something different. The original treatment plan for the foot was wearing a hard soled boot for 6 weeks or so. Once the ankle cast came off they xrayed the foot and I was told it was still broken. they advised me to keep wearing the boot and they said they recommended a bone stimulator for my foot. They believed after a month of using the bone stimulator my foot would heal.They told me they didn't think surgery would be necessary.
Said Bone stimulator was given to me almost 3 weeks later. The guys who gave me the bone stimulator told me the break I have in my foot is one of the hardest to heal because of it's location. That irritated me because I was never given that impression until that moment. I used the bone stimulator for two weeks and then went to see the doctor. She xrayed my foot again and ,Yes Virginia, it is still broken. At this point she still didnt seem too concerned. She said another two weeks ought to heal it. She scheduled me for an appointment for October 11. I asked her did she if she thought surgery was even a remote possibility. She said no, bone stimulators clear up problem most pf them time and she was almost sure that would be the case with me.
That brings us to today...I am week away from my next appointment and I can tell you this foot is still broke. I can feel it. It feels like it has for the past 97 days...just wrong...I do believe some progress has been made because I have some days with less pain than other but...it is still broken. I have been using the bone stimulator for more than a month and I am scared. What will they say at my appointment? Let me clarify I am not scared because I believe I am permanently gimped up but because it is healing the way the doctor believed. She told me the next stop after the bone stimulator was that dreaded S word....
If you pray, keep me in your prayers and hope that my foot heals in the next 7 days. If you don't pray, well, keep in your thoughts and hope for the same thing. Thanks everyone. I love you all.
PS: I am hoping to get some picture updated the blog soon of some stuff with the kids from summer. But I am lazy so we shall see if it happens. I am going to try and start blogging more but my life has been so boring lately...sorry...
OH and a big congratulations to my girl Mandy Burton on her engagement. I love her and wish her the best.
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