Foot fracture

Goodness I wish everyone would stop falling down so much. We bounce more when we are kids hehe. I remember when I broke my ankle how painful it was and it seemed that it hurt more a week later than it did when I first broke it. The doctor said this was because when the body suffers an injury, it actually sends out things to sort of numb the area, hence the swelling etc. so the body can start to heal itself. Then when the swelling starts to go down, the nerves come alive and the tissues etc. etc. and they say hello, just thought I would remind you that we are still broken.

Now I'm not sure if that makes any sense but that's what he told me. Of course I was on some good medications at the time so I could have been hallucinating. I just know that the pain tends to linger on. I broke my ankle about 20 years ago and it still hurts on occasion.

Oh foot pain is the worse! Or at least it ranks way up there with spine and dental pain!

I've got a total of three breaks in my foot. All the left. In retrospect, it's probably related to the dang foot drop that wasn't taken seriously.

Anyhoo, for me it was metatarsal breaks (the first -- which is totally weird and hard to do -- and of course, the favourite fifth!)

I recall when Hubby brought me into the ED the 2nd to the last time and I was in agony.

I was told by the ED doc that "it's not uncommon" for people to recover from (the type of fracture I got) in 2 weeks time. Yuh-huh.

But I must say, never, ever, in all my falls, tumbles and excursions, have I ever broken my heel. So I don't have much advice to offer you there. But I can say that in my experience, anything relating to my feet,....well forget about it!! Too painful!!










M.

So very sorry about your broken foot. Hope it heals up quickly for you.