Disheveled Rambling's

Well, the wife went to the orthopedist the other day to have them see her ankle.  The doctor took a look at it and said that she was not going to be back to 100% for a while as she did quite the job on it.  He officially put her into a "pneumatic cast", which is essentially the big grey boot that you see people wear (kind of like what Tom Brady was seen wearing the other day). 

Anywho, while we were there, the doctor hands me this nicely made CD with printed label and everything and says, "Here, have her x-rays!".  I'm thinking to myself, WOW, this is cool!!  I have my wife's foot x-rays on CD.  Not bulky, over sized x-ray films to cart around.  So, without ado, here are a couple of the x-rays:








Fortunately for my camera, my wife had to remove her air cast today so that she could bathe.  So, after she was done and before she put her boot back on I snapped a couple of pictures of how her beautiful ankle looks right now, in all its sprained, bruised glory:





Well, that's about all for now on the ankle.  Not a lot more to tell at the moment.  She is going to be going back to work on light duty.  In other words, sitting down and banging register or doing other sit down tasks. Here is to healing!

It was last Friday, January 18th, 2008, and I was on my way to Devens, MA to pick my brother up from Job Corps to spend the weekend with us.  I was about 10 minutes out when my phone rang from the house.  I thought it odd as my wife was supposed to be at work already, or at least on her way. 

She was on the other end of the phone and noticeably in tears.  She told me that she wasn't going in to work and that she had slipped on the ice and twisted her ankle.  OUCH!!! Well, that was only the tip of the "swollen" iceberg (or ankle as it is in this case). 

I arrived back home about an hour later and there she was, on the couch, ice on her ankle and winsing from the pain.  I asked her if she wanted to go to the hospital and she said "no, what are they going to do, tell me to ice it?".  So, she sat there and iced it for a while. 

Well, a couple hours later, after getting up to go to the bathroom, she quickly realized the amount of pain that had truly been inflicted upon her poor ankle as it began throbbing wildly.  I then decided that a trip to the hospital may not be a bad idea after all. 

The doctor took a look and said that it looks like she went as far as she could without breaking the ankle or any of the tendons and ligaments, leaving her with what he called a very severe sprain.  He proceeded to put on a rigid splint ( more like a mini cast as he wet the stuff and formed it to her foot nicely) and then handed her the crutches.  (Mind you, she has never been on crutches in her entire life, so this is a very new and eye opening experience for her.  I say eye opening because she is realizing after about two days exactly what muscles are involved in the use of crutches. 

Well, she has been taking her meds (Percoset) and lying on the couch with the ankle up and being iced on and off like a good patient.  Me?  I have been doing my best to take care of the house (laundry, dishes, kids, baths, cooking, etc.  You name it!  Thank goodness I took this week off as vacation.  I get to take care of her and then next week I am going to try and work at home so I can be here for her to help by continuing my husbandly duties. 

All in all, she is doing ok, but is still in a fair amount of pain.  The good news is, she thinks the swelling may have gone down some as the splint is quite loose on her.  She has an appointment tomorrow with an orthopedist to have it further looked at and get a determination. 

Isn't winter fun?  And to think, this was all caused by a patch of ice from some snow that melted during the day that was right behind her car.  Damned ice!!!