New boot for S

I've been so good, staying off my broken foot the past few days. And it seemed my ankle was doing better, except for a nagging sharp pain that would suddenly strike, like a trapped bumblebee under the Ace bandage. Then this afternoon, I leaned over to grab another dose of pain/nausea pills by my bed. As I stretched for it, I felt another sharp sting, and something went "pop!" Then my foot started hurting/stinging more than it had all day. I got scared, and went in for a pajama consult. The Doc said "good call" and gave me this fun boot to wear home, and some antibiotics.

S-Really Messed Up

I was walking down the hill, along the edge of our street, to get the mail Thursday night. Took the dog out to pee, multitasking as usual. The dog went the other way, and when I turned to call her back out of the street (a car was coming, saw the headlights coming around the curve, I slipped on the ice, and went down hard. My right foot folded 90° sideways and broke bones on both sides of the ankle. Bad news at Black Rock. Intense pain! Big pieces of bone pushing outwards on the skin at the sides of my ankle. I grabbed the foot firmly and gently aligned it, then massaged the ankle bones back in line with my foot. The foot was hanging down in whatever direction gravity pulled it. Nice neighbors driving by helped me drag myself out of the cold, back to the house, called 911. Paramedics took me to nearby Littleton Hospital ER. I did such a good job of aligning things, that the paramedics and the ER doc insisted it could just be a dislocation. "Hah!" I said, "take an X-Ray!" The X-Rays confirmed bones broken on both sides. Luckily, an Orthopedic surgeon and an operating room freed up at the same time, so he put in a plate and 7 screws on the right side, and 2 screws on the left side, to hold everything back together, within hours of the accident. The Doc said the surgery went well. Sent me home Friday morning, with orders to avoid weight bearing and driving for two weeks. Now I'm just writhing around in bed, between being in intense pain every time I move, and being so nauseous (from the pain medication?), that I can't keep any food down.