update

[truepenny]

This morning, mirrorthaw drove me to the hospital so they could take my sutures out and put on a real fiberglass cast instead of just a splint.

My vagus nerve threw a wobbly in the middle (I swear it was something about having the sutures clipped), so my achievement for today is that I neither fainted nor puked in the exam room.

The cast is a big improvement over the splint. It's not as heavy, and it's much more snug and therefore more confidence-inspiring. I feel like my foot will stay in the correct position without my worrying about it, which for the last couple days was not true with the splint.

Of course, my ankle bitterly protested being mauled about, so I came home, took two oxycodone, and slept for five hours. And I'm now slow and fogged-in and generally useless. But glad for the new cast.

Comments

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

It's a progress milestone, at least, so yay for that! Though boo for the unpleasantness of the process.

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Feel better soon! *sends telepathic rays*

[renatus.livejournal.com]

so my achievement for today is that I neither fainted nor puked in the exam room.

That's a hell of an achievement, really. That reaction is so automatic when it happens, it slams down HARD, and being able to soldier through it is impressive.

Hurrah for the new cast, and best wishes for it vastly improving your comfort and mobility!

[coffeeem.livejournal.com]

Oh, man--you wuz mighty. Sleep well, you.

[warriorofworry.livejournal.com]

Yay! achievement. Swift recovery to you; sleep well and careful with your new mobility.

[casacorona.livejournal.com]

That is an achievement, and I congratulate you! I'm glad the progress of healing continues on schedule. I hope you can rest more easily with the cast on.

[pameladean]

It's awfully good to hear from you, and I'm glad this stage of things looks better than the last.

P.

[saoba.livejournal.com]

I continue to send good=healing-ankle thoughts of solidarity.

It is a particular kind of exhausting, the broken ankle.

The day I went from splint to RoboBoot my accomplishment was not punching the nice doctor in the head. Confession- my friend had the foresight to be holding my hand which kind of put just enough of the brakes on the impulse for me to withstand it.

[farmgirl1146.livejournal.com]

I wish you fast healing. Drugs are good.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

This.

Good work, Mole.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

A good cast is a very comforting thing--and miserable as a broken bone is, the treatment has been working for thousands of years, so you know it is going to work.

But lots of sympathy for the pain and general horribleness of the situation.

[marycatelli]

Let's hear it for improvements in situations!