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| Day 3 Dr. office |
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| bottom of my foot is totally bruised just by sitting down waiting. |
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| Ahhh, comfort! Now I can put some weight on my ankle. |
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| day 4 AM bruising setting in |
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| bruising on the inside too |
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| Day 4 PM, more colors |
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| day 4 pm |
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| Day 5 more bruising- back to work |
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| bruising more in the medial side |
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| Day 7 AM one week after |
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| Day 8, more swollen today- tried to walk around too much yesterday |
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| Right ankle normal, left ankle still swollen (just after I took off the ace bandage) |
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| What my ankle normally looks like |
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| What my left one looks like on day 8 |
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| Day 9 am |
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| day 9 am |
Yay! You made it through all my lovely pictures. I'm grossed out by them but at the same time it's interesting to see how your body reacts to trauma. I never thought my toes would be bruised by an ankle fracture for example.
Recovery wise- I last blogged on Monday- 2 days after my accident.
Tuesday (day 3)- RICE and Dr. Appt where I got a boot. I have to say, I love the boot. I couldn't but any weight on my ankle/foot before and now I can so it's helping with walking with crutches. The official diagnosis: Avulsion fracture of my fibula. Basically, my calcaneofibular ligament ripped off my fibula and took a chunk of bone with it. It was really tiny in the xray. So this is usually treated like a sprain. 6 weeks and I should be good.
Wednesday (day 4)- RICE and got up more and got used to the boot and crutches.
Thursday (day 5) back to work- kept off my feet as much as possible, iced 2x during the day.
Friday (day 6) work- walked around for about 1hr without crutches- small victory. Later that night, same thing.
Saturday (day 7- 1 week) Rested, but feeling frustrated of not being able to work out and irritable cleaned the house with headphones on. I did some ROM exercises, abcs and flexing it. Over did it, and hurt later that night. grrr.
Sunday (day 8) RICED, babied it, crutches, etc. I was able to bear weight on it and actually took a few steps before going to bed to try it out. The only place it hurt was the medial side...strange- the opposite side from the injury. Hoping it's just stiff.
Monday (day 9- today)- I'm going to try just wearing the boot today and skip crutches. Wondering if the pain I get in the boot is from just being stiff. Although as I type it hurts and I haven't even been up in 30 minutes. Probably need to elevate it!
So my goal this week: to try to wean from the crutches and to increase ROM.
One week down, 5 to go (hopefully!)
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