So you've broken your foot (A guide)

[Twinkle]

Write more! Write more!

And also rest. Don't do anything. It's an excuse for people to wait on you hand and foot.

[Kuri]

Ouch! I've never broken anything (just watch this time tomorrow I'll have broken something ), I hope it feels better soon. Your post made me giggle alot though, are you going to write more? I wish you a speedy recovery too.

[Nessa]

Haha, I had the spectator's position when my brother broke his arm... the timeline:

Broke arm.
Had surgery, got a pin stuck in there.
Time goes by, pin is removed... and replaced with a plate and screws.
(note, after the pin was put in he stayed in the hospital for about a week and a half or something.)

Time once again goes by, everything is happy and dandy... then he breaks the same arm again about four months later.
Plate is removed, a bigger plate (which you can see through the skin, although maybe not anymore) is put in replacing the smaller one. He stayed in the hospital for.two.weeks.

He never got a cast, although his arm was crooked for about a month.

Have fun with the broken foot Inrun, it doesn't sound too bad, but then again it is a broken foot. At least my brother didnt have to have crutches. Good luck and have fun taking over the world. =) Remember to cut the USA some slack... :S or at least Texas XP

edit: Heres a inconsideratly large photo in which you can see his crookedness & his lovely scar: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v39/t ... 9_0932.jpg

[Fiddelysquat]

I guess you can't go around kicking schoolchildren as a past time anymore. Oh, the good old days. Now I'll have to punt preschoolers all by my lonesome.

[ahoteinrun]

I guess you can't go around kicking schoolchildren as a past time anymore. Oh, the good old days. Now I'll have to punt preschoolers all by my lonesome.

... I may not be able to kick them, but if you flip crutches upside down... i'm sure they'd make a great golfclub type bat thing.

*smile*
You know i'd never let you have all the fun.

[Morningstar]

Anyone with tips on how to survive this outrage (for that is what it is), will recieve not one, but one and 3/17ths of a cookie!

That's what you get for shoving those gruel cookies down my throat, Inrun. Just kidding, honest, swear to God. OK?

First, I do hope that you were given some good drugs while you were in pain. Nothing worse than having a broken anything and not getting something for the pain.

Second, milk it for all it is worth. Get your mom/dad to drive you everywhere. Friends and family members to do things for you. Big puppy dog eyes and "ow!, it hurts" will make them come a'running.

Third, you will actually be able to do a whole lot more than you think you can do. I was in a full leg cast (up to my thigh) for 4 months. Broke both bones in my lower leg downhill skiing while going up the hill (don't ask). Eventually, I was able to walk 10 blocks to and from school every day(though my boyfriend did carry my books for me), go shopping at the outdoor mall, hop all around the house (without my crutches), and learn to fly up and down the stairs without the help of crutches (as long as there was a stair rail). The worst thing was that I had to cut one leg of all of my blue jeans shorter than the top of my cast. But, the attention I got from that thing! I was suddenly the most popular girl in school (for being a klutz on a school-sponsored skiing trip).

Some advice: Learn to use those crutches. Nowdays they probably send you home without any instruction at all, but when I broke my leg, they kept me for 3 whole days, just to have the physical therapists teach me how to walk on my crutches (ah, the good old days). If I was there, I could show you how to walk up the stairs without slipping. A gazillion years later and I still remember it.

And, yes, water is your enemy. But, if going outside in the rain, put a really big sock (like an adult rugby sock) over the cast to protect it from the rain. And, while in the shower, use those plastic bags you get from the grocery store and instead of rubber banding them , either use a twist tie or one of those elastic bands used for girl's ponytails (they are snug, but not quite a tourniquet). Stretch them a lot before putting them on your leg. Or, you could just put your leg outside of the shower curtain (that's pretty much what I did). It wasn't the easiest thing in the world, but it did keep the leg from getting wet.

I hope you feel better soon, sweets!

[ahoteinrun]

Mweep.
Now do you know why I was so blank last night Mistress Morningstar? I was reading and i'd read like three words and wouldn't remember what i'd just read. It was pretty bad.

My mom... shattered her ankle 8 years ago, and then snapped both bones in her leg (one twice) and had pins in her leg. Both breaks ended up with her beiing in a cast for 11 months. So i've got the crutches down pact.

It's not a big cast, it's not up to my knee (thank god), I've just got one garbage bag that I use for my cast, and a big elastic band. I may pull my hair back now, but my elastics won't fit over my cast. Thankfully, I have no where to go now... so if it's raining, i'm not too worried. I don't have to go outside (I can sit inside and watch it pour!) which is what it did yesterday.

And you're darn right they gave me pain killers. I think it was mainly because I was being loud. My mom wasn't there, and my dad... well... I love him, but he's just not that reassuring.

[Ski]

Wow, this reminds me of the time I broke my wrist. Not quite a foot, but same general type of injury. Get all the sympathy you can and make this a positive experience.

[Morningstar]

Mweep.
Now do you know why I was so blank last night Mistress Morningstar? I was reading and i'd read like three words and wouldn't remember what i'd just read. It was pretty bad.

Aw, and here I thought that it was something I did or did not say. Well, I have an obvious solution, you know. You are an artist. You are pretty much forced to stay in one spot. Why not sketch/draw/paint/do art stuff while the cast is on?

And, just to ease your mind, I will help Fidds punt preschoolers. (Eeek, I am a mom, what am I saying? I meant, middleschoolers.)