AZ_Dawn Gets a Break (In more ways than one)

The good news is that I'm alive. The bad news is that I broke my leg last Friday. On the outside bone just above the ankle. Hurts like crazy. I had surgery done on it Wednesday to realign my ankle joint. Now I have to stay off it for the next 8 weeks. Yep, that bites like a werewolf with the munchies.

I might lurk online a bit, but I can't guarantee I'll feel up to posting for a while. (Yeah, I know, this is Lady McLurky talking here) I'll let you know more about my injury later. Be good while I'm gone, OK?

Thanks for your prayers and well wishes, guys! I get tired a lot and have some pain problems and miscellaneous leg injury issues, but I can get around with a walker when I need to, so at least there's that.

I feel up to giving a few sketchy details about my leg. On the 5th(?) I stepped on a toy and fell. Or so I'm told by witnesses; I don't remember the toy. I didn't get my leg professionally seen until the next day at urgent care. They told me it was a break instead of the sprain we hoped, and recommended I see an orthopedist(?) on Monday. Due to insurance wranglings I didn't get to see him til Tuesday. I got more X-rays done (seems a lot of docs have issues with the digital X-rays and prefer good ol' fashion film) and was told that while the bone would knit nicely, my ankle was knock out of whack in the fall. It had to be realigned or it wouldn't do me any good to have the bones knit, so they penciled me in for surgery the next day. Inpatient surgery. They were very nice to me during my overnight stay in the hospital, but it wasn't exactly home.

Now here I sit propped up in bed, with as much hardware in my ankle as in my laptop, wondering if I should take the maximum dose of Oxicodone rather than the minimum (yep, they gave me the goood stuff ), and comptemplating how to best end this run-on sentence. On the upside, this incident is emphasizing what a wonderful, caring family I have.

Just an update on my leg. On Tuesday I get the big screw taken out of my ankle. It's outpatient surgery, fortunately, so if nothing goes horribly wrong I should get to recover in my own bed. I might not even be able to lurk for a few days after, though. Still won't be able to put weight on it for another couple of weeks.<!--IBF.ATTACHMENT_506303-->

Oops! Turned out to be just a consultation for taking the screw out. All they did was take off the hard cast and gave me a bandage (more to keep my nephews from messing with my leg than for actual support). I have to schedule the surgery later. I still can't put weight on it yet.