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October 20, 2005, 10:48 AM
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My Foot...
A few people had Emailed / PM'd me asking what exactly did I do to my foot, so I figured I would share. This is actually copied and pasted from my blog as majority that asked, use this site heh. If you get squeamish easily, stop reading right now. :-p It's pretty well known now that I broke my foot, so I figured I would share how it happened. Before I go any further though, I have to point out that I have problem knees, have had problems with them ever since I could remember. Long walks make them hurt, I can't sit cross legged or where you put your feet under your bum, etc. Running is out of the question and for some reason walking around shopping center's, although that tends to hurt my purse more. Lately I have discovered Golf, and while I enjoy the actual game, I am more thrilled at finding I can walk around a course for almost four hours and my knees don't hurt... all that soft, manicured grass, mmmm. It's Tuesday morning, it's very early, 6:20 to be exact. I wake up for some reason and look at the clock. A few seconds pass while I try to work out if it's 6:20am, or 6:20pm and I had slept through the entire day. I don't know why I'm so confused, probably because it was so frickin early and my brain hadn't even gotten back from where ever it goes during the night, but I figure, 'it's ok, I'll just go look at the kitchen clock.' Now with my bad knees, they sometimes go to sleep. But unlike when your foot or hand goes to sleep, when a knee goes to sleep, it makes your legs as useful as jelly. You literally can't walk. I have had this happen before, usually when I'm sitting on the couch watching a movie, when the movie ends, I go to get up and fall straight on my ass. A couch is different though, you have to stand up off a couch, so I realise my knee's asleep before I get anywhere, but a bed is different, you sort of slide out of a bed. Add in the confusion of thinking I had slept through an entire day, and I got out of bed in a real hurry. That's how I actually managed to get about three feet out from bed before realising my knee was asleep, by then, it was too late. I remember "oh shit" going through my head before seeing the floor come rushing up to greet me. This is the hard bit to explain... if you can imagine, my foot stayed glued to the spot while my leg collapsed into a sitting position; knee forward. Because my foot stayed still, and I had zero control over my leg, it rolled right under my calf, touching it before I hit the ground. So now I'm laying on the floor like Arnold Schwarzenegger from Terminator 2 when he landed, even more so as I'm not really a "sleep in PJ's" kinda person. I scream! Not a girly little see a spider scream either, a voice breaking, boyfriend waking, cat freaker of a scream... three of them apparently. I'm convinced I've broken my ankle, I can't feel it, can't wiggle my toes and all I remember is poor Thor standing over me trying to figure out what happened. All I know is, I'm going to throw up... I somehow manage to get to a sitting position and that's as far as I'm going as the urge to vomit and the sweat that seemed to come out of know where takes over. Not wanting to be like my cats and make a mess on the floor, Thor grabbed a bucket, but as I had nothing in my stomach I was safe. I sat there for about 10 minutes trying to figure out if I had broken anything, but then I could sort of wiggle my toes. All I wanted to do was lay down. Poor Mocca was sitting out in the lounge room completely confused as to what had happened, why we were all awake at this early hour and why was I screaming. It took me a good hour just to convince her I was ok, to come into the bedroom and say hello. Between getting back into bed and Thor leaving for work at 8am, I tried to work out what I had done to my foot, it was hurting quite bad. I could wiggle my toes, then I couldn't wiggle my toes, I definitely had pain, and I definitely couldn't move my ankle at all, so I figured I had just sprained it badly. With Thor at work, there wasn't much I could do. Through out the day I kept an eye on it, and the more the day passed, the more convinced I became that I had done some serious damage. I really couldn't walk anywhere, and every now and then my foot would turn blue. By the end of the day I couldn't wiggle my toes, it had swollen to almost twice the size, and Thor decided it was time to go to the emergency room. Six freaking hours later I'm in to see the Doctor. She pokes, I scream, she tries to feel my pulse, I resist the urge to kick her in the head. Turns out I have also torn all my ligaments and tendon's and done a really good job of it. I'm given some crutches, they put a bandage sock thing on my foot and given some wonderful wonderful pain killers. Least I wasn't as bad as the women beside me who thought it would be fun to kick a glass door. The worst part? I hate attention, I'm one of those people that walk through places looking at the ground, can't stand people staring at me, and generally don't like being in crowded spots. What's the one thing crutches attract? Attention! Do you realise how embarrassing it is to have someone come up all sympathetic and ask, "what happened?!" Then, you have to reply to that, "I fell out of bed..." Even Doctor's laugh! I was sitting outside the X-Ray area waiting to be taken back to the waiting room, a Doctor walked past and asked, "What sport?" I replied, "Getting out of bed..." He snorted a laugh and walked away! So now I'm on crutches, hobbling around the house and having to put up with the cat teasing me. Tonight when I went to pull him inside for dinner, I hobbled outside to where he was. He waits till I get within two feet of him, stands up and walks away five feet, sits down, looks at me. He does this three times before I bark, "I hope you starve" and I come back inside. I'm sure he was laughing his furry butt off the whole time, thinking to himself 'but it will be worth it'. So next time you say "I shouldn't have got out of bed this morning" think about what that sentence could really mean. At least the Icy-poles sitting in the freezer for the past month have a use...  Oh, and for those really curious, or for those that think I'm just a big wuss... this picture shows the difference in my feet atm. Do NOT click if you don't like seeing fat feet, it's my foot and I went "ew". And remember, that's after two days, ice on it, anti-inflammatory pills and rest...
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October 20, 2005, 11:49 AM
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Re: My Foot...
Oh my! When you first said you fell over and did it, I thought it was comical, but damn that's serious  Hope you feel better soon, make sure you have Thor take good care of you! |
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October 21, 2005, 03:41 AM
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Re: My Foot...
Well, it is kind of amusing when I think back, except for the fact when I do remember it I can remember the pain and it makes my stomach turn heh. I'm one of those people who hate Doctor's, I really don't think half of them know what they are doing. The amount of times I have gone to see a Doctor to be told "go home, rest, take these antibiotics" I can self diagnose myself from the comfort of my bed. That and I never do anything interesting to myself anyway, I'm always "just a sprain" or some other boring thing. Because my head aches never turn out to be brain tumours, my stomach aches are usually just bad chicken and other boring things, I didn't bother going to the Doctor's when it happened, this is the first serious thing I have done to myself since I was... like... 12 when my dog broke my finger. Even now I still keep feeling like I am over reacting, my foot doesn't hurt as much as I would expect it too, more just a dull ache every now and then. I'm even starting to walk on it a little which the Doctor says I have to so I help the tendons and that heal. Course that said, I was CONVINCED it was Wed this morning and Thor asked me if I was going to an appointment tody. I replied, "no that's Friday" which made him look at me funny and he informed me it WAS Friday... oops. That's probably the bump on my head though... oh yeah, forgot that part. I sleep in a big wooden bed, and the back of my head kissed it on the way down heh :roll:
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October 21, 2005, 08:23 AM
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/tickle Akasha's foot  Ouchie! Hope you get better quickly. Did they happen to say how long to recuperate?
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October 21, 2005, 09:02 AM
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Re: My Foot...
I should be able to do most of my walking without crutches in a week or two, and it will take as long as six to eight weeks before I am walking again normally. At the moment I can't bend at the ankle so tend to half walk on my heel with the aid of crutches. Breaks in your foot aren't actually that bad depending on which bones you do break, the issue is because I ripped all my tendon's, ligaments etc, so blood flow isn't getting down there like it should. If everything heals back on it's own then around 6 weeks... if it doesn't heal on it's own and I still have issues, they start looking at surgery .... /faint
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October 24, 2005, 07:16 PM
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Re: My Foot...
Yeah it sucks to break something. And then people keep asking you "how did you do it". I found it a tad more than annoying when I broke my wrist (I actually felt like writing it up and just handing people the print out whenever they asked me). Worst of all was that it was my right one (and I'm right handed). I had to painfully learn all these little things like brushing my teeth all over again with my left hand. The hardest (and most annoying of all) of all was learning to use the mouse well enough to play starcraft and diablo 2 well again 
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