Posts Tagged ‘disability’

This is what it’s like to have a broken foot.

I am still nowhere near getting answers, aside from the fracture boot that was upgraded so as to come up to my knee instead of my ankle. I’ve been referred to a podiatrist at the hospital twenty minutes from my house with the end goal of getting surgery on this foot if it is at all possible. So, at the worst I have to wait until September to be seen for an injury that happened this May. I’ll have been walking three months on a broken foot. We have also confirmed that, in spite of me wearing this boot every day, the break hasn’t healed a bit.

Another backdated post, another day in here.

On this day I was finally able to get in to see my new primary care physician since my old one retired.

She prescribed me enough pain medication to get me over the hump of a consult with the orthopedic surgeon, and either that individual or my pain management clinic (who normally see me for migraine-related pain, though they treat other kinds of pain too) will continue to prescribe me medications as needed. Between codeine and the occasional hydrocodone, I’m able to maneuver around the house in my new boot.

It looks like I’m going to be backdating posts…

By the time most of you see this, several days will unfortunately have elapsed.

I’ve been quite busy lately with real life, and I apologize for not being able to post in here!

Today was the day that I found out that the break in my foot had gotten… slightly worse than it was on initial imaging, which probably has a lot to do with the fact that I can’t get in to see an orthopedic surgeon for a consult until the end of the month. That was the soonest that our schedules aligned to be able to fit me in.

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