Ankle photos

[pyesetz]

Do not click if hypersensitive to injury photos!

Inner side of my right ankle.  Not much to see here except there's a black-and-blue mark below the ankle.  The white stuff on my sole is leftover material from the second (post-surgical) cast.

Outer side of right ankle.  Another black-and-blue mark, plus a general yellowish tinge of the foot indicating that previous bruising has been cleared up.  The redness going halfway up the shin is probably from having been enclosed in a cast for three weeks.  The gauze strip is covering the area of the surgical entry.  The angle of this picture makes me look emaciated; I never go to the gym, but I am not really as thin as this photo suggests.

Close-up of surgical entry.  There were many staples, each of which hurt during removal.  The dots on the gauze suggest that several of the staple holes bled a little.

So far, so good.  No post-surgical infection.  I received an Air Cast ($185, not covered by OHIP) and was told to continue not putting any weight on the ankle.  They said to come back in another three weeks for an X-ray.  It could be up to *another* three weeks after that before I can walk again and (some people on the Internet say) I could be limping for many months.

Comments

[frith]

Ouches! Yes, your leg does look like you've been on a six month fast. 8^) Well, I've never had anything that bad. I had a limp that lasted a year, but it didn't really require medical attention.

[pyesetz]

Hiyas!  Dunno why the calf is so thin.  I still walk a lot, but not as much as before my dog died.

Are you sure that your "limp that lasted a year" really didn't "require medical attention"?  Perhaps it would have improved faster?

[frith]

I figure I tore a muscle. After cleaning an enclosure I dump the load into a trailer. That entails pushing a loaded wheelbarrow up a steep ramp, dumping, and backing up to go back down the ramp. The guy who parked the trailer didn't back it up far enough and I fell backwards with one leg in the gap between the trailer and the ramp platform. My leg did not break (tough bones) but it did give me that limp. So, just soft tissue damage that took a year to heal. Not worth getting cut up over. Most people didn't even notice. ^_^ Now that hernia I had ten years before that, that would have been lethal if left alone.

[deffox]

Hope it continues to heal well.

Seems odd that a cast wouldn't be covered. Doesn't sound like an experimental treatment.

[pyesetz]

The boot, like the crutches ($30), is something that you keep and could potentially resell.  If they just gave it away, some people would be motivated to deliberately break their ankles so they could get the free boot and then resell it to non-covered people (because they value money more than their health).

[rain_gryphon]

So, did you end up dying from this, or what?