Leg getting better

Leg getting better and better - slow process though. I see doc in two more weeks to cut this cast off and get new xrays and a new cast.Some of the gauze inside of this one is bunching around and there are a couple of tiny pieces of fiberglass that have broken off and are floating around down there. I am like the princess and the pea ... one grain of salt in the bed will bother me, so I am really having to work on ignoring it.

The swelling has gone down so much that there is a good inch around the entire thigh part of the cast and I can scootch my foot up and down. I was rather hoping that perhaps the swelling would go down so much that I would be able to just sort of slide my leg out of the cast rather than having to endure "THE SAW" again. I was whining to my sister (who is an artist and a nurse) and she said she has had to cut windows in casts before and that the saw really isn't that sharp. To her I said. "Right - it cuts through that fiberglass, which seems impervious to any other substance on earth and it's not that sharp???" I keep having visions of being mutilated, blood running down my leg, my foot falling to the floor as she has accidentally cut it off - no worries here mate!

I am down to one oxycodone a day and I figure I will be off of it completely in a few days. Most of the actual pain I have now is just discomfort from having my leg down for too long, then fluid accumulates, it swells and hurts. To really elevate it, I need to lie on the bed, me flat, foot up on wedge. I can only lie like that so long before I fall asleep - so Missy (my tuxedo cat) and I spend most days together sleeping!




One bright spot - by the time this is over the dang left ankle should be as strong as iron with all the hopping and one legged standing it is getting. I don't think that is the most efficient way to rehab one broken leg, by breaking the other, however. Seems like cutting some off the bottom of the too short sheet and sewing it to the top.