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July 26, 2006 @ 7:58 am

[...] A few weeks back my wife broke her ankle and I started working from home more to help her out. The main problem with that was that all we have is cell phones. A few meetings on the cell phone and we’d be over our minutes. So I checked out Skype and found it to be cheap, reliable and amazing phone service. [...]

Comment by Hiram

July 27, 2006 @ 4:27 pm

I had similar ankle surgery within days of yours. Four pins and two screws. Hoping to get a walking cast in a week or so. I am just about to lose what’s left of my marbles. As for cat wisdom, I have kept two housecats for twentyfive years and your cat’s pissiness is not abnormal. I recently and very reluctantly got rid of my female because of her buleimia.Now that’s abnormal. I’m talking about the female cat. I’m into sqeezable mayo because I’m lazy.

Comment by Christi

July 27, 2006 @ 8:50 pm

I just got off the crutches I have been walking with crutches for two weeks before this and now am experiencing walking without crutches. Its going good (freedom let me tell you) but slow and painful. Hopefully yours goes better I just keep counting down the weeks until I’m free and clear of a boot all together! Your cat had Bulemia? I’ve never heard of a cat having bulemia. I see you read alot of my blog I like visitors feel free to check back but we’ll see how long it takes me to come up with a new topic….

Comment by Hiram

July 28, 2006 @ 10:54 am

Doctors. They couldn’t seem to understand how difficult the idea of surgery was for me. They very nearly killed me nine years ago. In some ways they did. I had the waking anesthesia thing during a ten hour surgery on my top vertabae. I can still ride my bike though. Doctors hate bikes.

Comment by Thomas

July 28, 2006 @ 12:12 pm

My wife doesn’t like bikes either. The motorized ones that is. Doctors are OK in my book but I can see why you don’t like them though.

Comment by Hiram

July 28, 2006 @ 1:15 pm

This isn’t reasonable. I know that doctors are for the most part helpful. Bulemia is a real thing in female housecats. I would not have believed it and for the longest time didn’t. Go figure.

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August 19, 2006 @ 6:13 pm

[...] This weekend marks the first time since May that my wife has been able to wear two shoes!  How exciting is that.  Her ankle is not fully healed yet, however she’s now starting to walk on it and doing great.  No crutches no boot.  We also went for a short drive and she did excellent! [...]

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June 14, 2007 @ 8:12 pm

[...] its been about a 1 year (and a month) since I completely broke my ankle (broke every bone and dislocated it) and I’m [...]

Comment by cledus

December 27, 2007 @ 11:22 am

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Comment by Linda

March 27, 2008 @ 12:29 pm

Hello All:

I slipped and fell on a patch of snow & ice on 12/7/07 and I had to have 2 plates and 13 screws put in my right ankle, here it is almost 4 months later and I am still miserable. I am in physical therapy and I am currently learning how to walk with one crutch and an aircast on my leg (instead of the boot) and it is coming along, but I am extremely frustrated because my ankle constantly throbs, the hardware is literally coming out of my skin and is irritating as hell. My foot is always cold and I can’t bend my big toe at all on this foot. My surgeon has decided that he wants to take the hardware out, so I am not looking forward to whole recovery process again. My birthday is coming and here I am unable to really celebrate because I can’t stand or drive, etc. I was so glad to come across this site and find that I am not alone in dealing with such madness, that I started to feel a little better and began to see that there is light at the end of the tunnel. I just want to say thank you to everyone for sharing their stories and giving such encouraging words. Now that I have found this group, I will be checking in daily for my dose of “chicken noodle soup”.

Bless you all!!

Comment by Sandy

April 24, 2008 @ 10:34 pm

I recently broke my tibia and fibula and I am
walking some. I go back to the ortho in three weeks to check my bone healing. I was wondering if anyone
broke their tib/fib. I fell in my kitchen. I am 57 years old.

Comment by Linda

April 26, 2008 @ 12:18 pm

Hello Sandy

Yes I too broke both my Tibia/Fibula and a third bone near the foot, so I understand what you are going through, it’s good to hear that you are walking some, it took me almost 4 monts before I could even put my foot on the floor without pain, hang in there!!!

Comment by Ken

May 11, 2008 @ 9:31 pm

I broke my Left ankle while teaching in school in a sports PE class. Man was that embarrassing. Broken in 3 places that required 8 screws and a plate. I broke in April 2 had surgery on the 4th. Went back on the 17th and went into the boot and started Physical Therapy. I also coach baseball. I can’t wait to start walking again but it doesn’t seem like it will be soon after reading the above messages.

Comment by G

May 15, 2008 @ 3:11 pm

Nice to meet you guys. I slipped last July 13th, as in Firday the 13th, and broke/crushed several bones in the ankle. I spent a week in the hosiptal, had surgery, went back to work after 3 weeks. I used a walker for the first 3 months and then I could finally start trying to walk. Went to physical therapy and they over did it one day and created stress fractures in the top of my foot. I keep getting stress fractures now because the hardware is coming out of the bone. I am preparing to go back in to remove the hardware and go back in a cast. I am beginning to think I may never wear matching shoes again.