The hospital is out of my network (again, yay managed care), so I had to find my own podiatrist referral. By the grace of God she was able to get me in the next day, on Christmas Eve. She did an exam (ow) and took more x-rays and found a fracture. I have a fractured tibial sessamoid bone, which according to my good friend the internets apparently never heals well if at all. Things are bleak, my friends. I have to stay off the stupid thing for six weeks. I am doing well at this about 75% of the time. At work and for longer distances I use a scooter thing since crutches are painful. I still use the crutches as needed, though. I can only drive very short distances and that still hurts a bit. I am definitely discouraged about the prognosis, but I am taking a bunch of vitamin C and will also start calcium this week in an effort to speed up my healing.
Did I mention that this is my very first broken bone? Pretty crazy considering that I fall down all the time...
