Broke Foot

I was sitting on the floor typing away at my computer (playing Restaurant City on Facebook...), and I got up to clean up the kitchen table for our late lunch.

But my left leg was numb from sitting on the ground... and I lost my balance... and landed on my left foot curled inward.

I heard a snap (crack?).
And I was rolling on the floor in pain for couple of minutes.

I thought it was just a bad sprain... but I couldn't get up on my feet.
So I iced my ankle for a bit. Then moved my foot to see how it looked, and it was swollen. Like I have tennis balls for my ankle.


It was a bit of luck that じゅるる had an appointment to see an orthopedic surgeon today (his elbow's been hurting), so we thought he could take a look at it & tape it up for me.

It took 5 minutes for me to stand up.
And another 15 minutes to get to the car (inching my way up & down the stairs on my butt).

They took an x-ray... which I thought was excessive for a sprained ankle. Then they rolled me into an exam room, じゅるる walked in & said "I saw the white line on the x-ray." "Huh?" "Oh, you didn't see it? The doc said it's the cleanest way to break the bone."

It's broken!?


So the doctor put a cast on my foot.
I'll recover in 6 weeks.

I have to go back in 3 weeks for another x-ray and to re-cast.