The Last of the Foot Drama (we hope)
Fascinating, ain't it?
So doctor’s appt today, much limping to get there, much things wrong with my car’s transmission, etc. Surprisingly the staff remembered me, which means I must have been a highly-amusing and beloved patient, right? Or an unholy PITA, whichever.
X-rays (I think that exhausting my $250 medical co-pay 5 days into a new year is a personal best, by the way.) and waiting around for the doctor, who prods at me and makes everything hurt, then makes up for it by showing me all the cool insides of my foot. There’s a weirdness where the break was, all lumpy up the sides, and there’s still a line there with the original fracture, but NO NEW FRACTURE, bitches. None.
After telling me that he starts explaining something to me about torque, and wrenched tendons, and monkey paws, but by that point I wasn’t listening because all I’d heard was: NO NEW FRACTURE (bitches).
So basically he said I was all injured and stuff, but it wasn’t a break, and I was going to be OK. Then he said if I wanted to wear Das Boot for a few days/week he would support me in that, but he’d also be happy to see me in a shoe. Doctors are so weird-talking. Anyway, I said no way to the boot, asked if I could walk barefoot (I can) asked if I can haz pain meds (I can) and asked how long until it was better (2-3 weeks). And I can SO DO THAT SHIT. In fact, even though it hurts just as badly now, I DO NOT CARE because I know it’s not broken, and that walking on it is not making it worse. I can stand anything if I know what’s causing it and when it’s going to stop. I ain’t ascairt of some pain.
So anyway, that’s me, twisty monkey paw torque foot. Healing. With meds to ease my way. Wearing shoes. Hopefully this is the last time we’re going to need to discuss my feet on this here blog, unless I am rhapsodizing about a pedicure or having someone massage them.
On a side note, I wish I’d asked him for copy of my new x-rays, but I thought that if I was too weird he wouldn’t give me the pain meds. To soothe you I have posted a pic of last year’s x-rays and the terrible, horrible, no-good, really bad Jones Fracture.
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Dim Reaper on
January 6, 2009 12:29 pm
That is good news! Glad to hear you didn’t break it again, and that at least there is an end in sight. Just make sure you don’t stand on anything else in a weird way whilst you’re taking pain killers.
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