I have an "impressive" injury!

[k-dubjumps 0]

Turns out my foot has been broken for the past 12+ weeks! Yep, that loosing battle with the gopher hole back in June did more than just sprain my ankle. Turns out my calcaneus (heel) has been broken this entire time!

How can this be? Well, it didn't hurt and didn't really show up on the x-rays. I've been going to PT for my ankle sprain the entire time and got clearance to start running again a couple weeks ago. I was actually excited about being allowed to run ONE whole mile. The thing is I don't like to run, but I was so tired of being confined to sitting on my ass that I was actually looking forward to it.

When I ran the first time my ankle was sore. It was to be expected, but my foot also popped in a place that I didn't know it could pop. Didn't hurt just felt weird. I tried running again a few days later and got the same result. The next day I was walking around in my socks and my foot started popping again. Weird. I told my physical therapist about it the next day. He was concerned about it and referred me to a podiatrist.

The doc looked at the same follow up x-rays that had been taken 2 weeks after my injury (which the report said were negative) and says "I'm suspicious there is a fracture right here, but its hard to tell because its at a cuboid-calcaneus joint. Lets get another x-ray at a different angle."

So what's he say when we take a look at the new image? "Impressive!" Apparently the way I broke my foot isn't very easy to do. I've been walking around like this for 3 months now and what does he do? Makes me start wearing one of those stoooopid terminator boot thingies. No running and no more PT. I of course ask if I can still skydive and he said yes! I like him. I like him a lot! I've been jumping for the past month anyway so what's a few more right? He said I could and who am I to argue with a doctor?

So what's the solution? I'm having surgery in a week to either have the broken piece removed or a pin put in. I told him that if I don't need it and it isn't going to affect the function of my foot, just remove the fucker. I'd much rather recover in a couple of weeks than in a couple of months!

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[flygirl1 0]

That is impressive! I hope you feel better soon

Fly like a girl

[jonstark 8]

I took a big climbing whipper years ago and broke both heels. When the CT scans came back the doc said "You've got an old break with a piece of bone loose." I had broken my foot the same as you have only never had it looked at and the piece never knit. It's still floating around in there.

I used to have a frequent flyer card to the orthopedic clinic so my regular doc jokes with me but when he said we'd be fusing the ankle I told him "No we won't!" So far so good. No surgery. It hurts a lot but not worth going in to fuse now. Arthritis from effing up the cartilage is what has become bothersome.

jon

[Niki1 2]

Back about '88 I was jumping a Mavarick that opened pretty abruptly. On this particular jump, it felt like I jumped off a bridge with kevlar instead of bungee. I heard my neck make odd cracking noises and my right arm was no longer useful. I landed one handed and the arm was still really tingleing. 2 days later it still tingled so I went to the chiropractor. He took some X-rays. I was sitting there in the exam room when he walks in with the X-rays and says, "When did you break your neck?" I got really still, didn't want to move a mucsle. He says no, it's OK, it must have happened a long time ago. He shows me the pictures and there is one long irregular vertibrae where there should be 3. C 3, 4, & 5 I think. They had all grown together over the years and if they had still been normal there would've been enough flexibility to bend and break. WOW!!

A few days later, I remembered an event from childhood. I was 5 or 6 and was showing off (Yeah, even then) seeing how far I could jump from the swing set. I could swing the highest so I could jump the farthest. Except that I swung so high I wound up getting out of the swing backwards. I came down square on my head, luckily and had a REALLY stiff neck for a while. That must have been when it happened. It may also explain a lot about the rest of my life. "He fell on his head as a child."

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