Black and Blue?
Jun. 30th, 2011 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Try black and black. I had to go back to the E/R with my ankle this morning. It was hurting more now than it was when I first sprained it, the splint felt like it had been positioned out of whack (probably because of the way I half-slept last night), and the whole area just basically didn't feel right at all.
When the doctor took my splint and ace bandage off, revealed beneath was a huge-ass swollen ankle and foot, and the ankle and heel were so badly bruised, the colouring was dark black. The bruises span from the top of my foot near the ankle, to around the outside of my ankle and foot, and the edge of my heel. Dr. Roy very gently tried to move my foot to and fro to make certain it wasn't any sort of break, and it doesn't seem to be be so, but he commented that this was one of worst sprains he'd ever seen.
So he went and called the orthopaedist I'm supposed to go see on 5 July and discussed my situation. My appointment was rescheduled for 9 a.m. tomorrow. Until then, I'm supposed to keep the splint on and in the correct position as best as I can, and I was prescribed a stronger pain medication, Endocet, to deal with the godawful pain I'm enduring from this sprain. It feels like a Depression-era ex-con is pounding a rusty railroad spike through the bottom of my heel and up through my leg bone.
Right now, though, that's not so much the case. I took some of that Endocet and I'm not feeling much of anything but goofy. So hells to the yeah.
When the doctor took my splint and ace bandage off, revealed beneath was a huge-ass swollen ankle and foot, and the ankle and heel were so badly bruised, the colouring was dark black. The bruises span from the top of my foot near the ankle, to around the outside of my ankle and foot, and the edge of my heel. Dr. Roy very gently tried to move my foot to and fro to make certain it wasn't any sort of break, and it doesn't seem to be be so, but he commented that this was one of worst sprains he'd ever seen.
So he went and called the orthopaedist I'm supposed to go see on 5 July and discussed my situation. My appointment was rescheduled for 9 a.m. tomorrow. Until then, I'm supposed to keep the splint on and in the correct position as best as I can, and I was prescribed a stronger pain medication, Endocet, to deal with the godawful pain I'm enduring from this sprain. It feels like a Depression-era ex-con is pounding a rusty railroad spike through the bottom of my heel and up through my leg bone.
Right now, though, that's not so much the case. I took some of that Endocet and I'm not feeling much of anything but goofy. So hells to the yeah.