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Since I just realized it's been a year and a half since my last update, things are mostly the same as they were, and I post in facebook a lot more than here (if you need contact info, ask).
The only major change lately is I've done horrible things to my left ankle. Jan 23 I took a hard fall on some ice and broke the fibula (an unreduced Maisonneuve's fracture) plus damage to the deltoid ligament. Seven or eight weeks of restricted activity and two screws (open reduction with internal fixation to take the weight off the ligament), everything was supposed to be going good.
Last week, at the pre-op appointment for the screw removal, they detected new damage - previously unnoticed medial malleolus damage, for which I'm going in to surgery tomorrow. Two orthopedics docs (one PA and one surgeon) both saying, essentially, "what the fuck?" and an emergency C-T scan later, I'm having more surgery.
The plan is to go in (probably through the original incision, as they don't want to make too many incisions too close together) and put in a plate and screws to stabilize the malleolus damage and then to remove the original screws because they're starting to loosen. They may replace the screws, or not, they hadn't decided by the end of Thursday's appointment.
Then I have two or three weeks in a splint with limited mobility and no weight bearing activity until the swelling goes down, followed by a month or so in a cast, and then (if it goes like the first time) another six weeks or so in an air cast, with gradually increasing weight bearing allowed.
The only major change lately is I've done horrible things to my left ankle. Jan 23 I took a hard fall on some ice and broke the fibula (an unreduced Maisonneuve's fracture) plus damage to the deltoid ligament. Seven or eight weeks of restricted activity and two screws (open reduction with internal fixation to take the weight off the ligament), everything was supposed to be going good.
Last week, at the pre-op appointment for the screw removal, they detected new damage - previously unnoticed medial malleolus damage, for which I'm going in to surgery tomorrow. Two orthopedics docs (one PA and one surgeon) both saying, essentially, "what the fuck?" and an emergency C-T scan later, I'm having more surgery.
The plan is to go in (probably through the original incision, as they don't want to make too many incisions too close together) and put in a plate and screws to stabilize the malleolus damage and then to remove the original screws because they're starting to loosen. They may replace the screws, or not, they hadn't decided by the end of Thursday's appointment.
Then I have two or three weeks in a splint with limited mobility and no weight bearing activity until the swelling goes down, followed by a month or so in a cast, and then (if it goes like the first time) another six weeks or so in an air cast, with gradually increasing weight bearing allowed.