For anyone who has not heard the news, I will let you know. I've heard complaints that people were not told right away, so I figured I'd let all those who have not heard, and are on the blog mailing list, know about our latest medical adventures.
Jason and I took the kids roller skating on Wednesday night. Stacey had roller blades on for a while and decided that she wanted skates instead. I told her I'd help her exchange the blades for skates and we started heading to the counter on the carpet. As we were walking, my skates did something really weird causing me to lose my balance. I did the skates on the feet while trying to catch your balance dance and lost. My right foot turned to my right side and my knee followed causing me to collapse. In turn, I broke my fibula. For those who don't know anatomy well, the fibula is the smaller bone in your calves that forms the outer ankle bone. Needless to say, I was in quite a bit of pain and we headed to the ER. They splinted my leg, gave me crutches, a prescription for Percocet, and referred me to an orthopedist.
Today I saw the orthopedist that did a couple more x-rays to see if there is a possible need for surgery. He is kind of on the fence about the surgery. He's worried about some tendons on the inside portion of my ankle. If I've torn them, they need to be surgically repaired. The break is actually very stable and is not out of place at all. There was no expressed worry that the break will not heal. I've been told that some fibula breaks do not actually heal without medical help other than a cast. So now the biggest worry is the tendons. The break is just a break and will heal with the usual treatments.
He sent me home with a stabilizing boot and tightly wrapped my ankle with an ace bandage to hopefully help the swelling circulate out of my ankle and to see if I really did injure the tendons. I will go back on Monday to check on the swelling and to have my leg casted. If my leg and ankle do well in the boot for the weekend, the doctor will just leave the boot on.
A plus side to this is that I get a handicapped placard for 2 months. Sweet deal! I'm glad to have that because I cannot bear any weight on my foot for at least 2 weeks, but if my leg is put in a cast, it will be at least a month.
The down side is now I cannot continue to do my cardio workouts at the gym. I cannot do the Zumba which I was thoroughly enjoying. I was even starting to see results with weight loss and some strength and endurance. I guess I will just have to stick to upper body workouts until I can bear weight again.
