Not-really-gory photos

[rachelmanija]

Do not click unless you are in the mood for "Wanna see my broken foot?" Cut for photos of bruised foot (and a cat).

The photos don't really do it justice, especially of the top of the foot - there's very dark bruising at the base of my toes that didn't show up well. On the bottom, the bruise is actually darker and extends to the side of the foot. However, you can see how it's swollen so all the wrinkles have vanished. The red marks are from pre-existing blisters, not blood poisoning. ;)

Comments

[feldman]

Oh ouch! The only bone I've ever broken was a foot bone, that truly sucks, I hope you recover speedily!

[rachelmanija]

How was your recovery? Did you use crutches?

[feldman]

My recovery was complicated by a dismissive ER doc telling me I'd only broken a toe, so I taped my toes together and hobbled on it for a week, because what else do you do for a broken toe? My working class upbringing and ability to ignore pain overrode my medical knowledge.

Which is dumb, because my foot looked like a rainbow balloon animal.

The podiatrist I saw when it got worse after a week told me I'd broken a metatarsal in the body of the foot, so there was a walking boot, cortisone shots, physical therapy for the foot, and then again later for the hip because I'd been limping speedily in the FrankenFoot instead of using a normal gait.

Don't do that. I don't recommend that at all.

[mtbc]

Yeah, my doctor told me it was probably just a soft tissue injury so I ended up just buying stuff myself that felt like it helped: I was walking strapped firmly into one of those big aluminum-frame boots for weeks because it felt too bad otherwise, weird though it was to learn to do staircases in one. It was some time later when I was still suffering that they decided maybe it hadn't been a soft tissue injury after all: the guy working the MRI machine was very much ah yes, that's the issue when he saw inside my foot and then I had cortisone shots and stuff but it's never been quite right since. Fine for walking and running at least. So best of luck to people in getting sufficient timely treatment!

[kore]

Ohhh yeah, "we can't do anything for broken toes except tape them together" was medical Common Wisdom for a long time, for some reason. When I badly badly sprained my ankle in junior high, all they did was give me (OVERSIZED) crutches and tell me to stay off it (while still going to school where I changed classrooms every hour). And that bad sprain probably led to the ankle being super prone to sprains, &c &c.