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Originally Posted by notme  I am sorry you broke your leg Scratch. That really does suck. What did you do??????
Here is hoping you mend quickly and get back to your exercise!!!  |
I probably got the initial bit of break on the 21st of December. Since starting running back in early November, I've been trying to follow the basic idea of use a period of time of about 3 weeks to slowly increase the amount of running, then have a week where you go easy, cut back on the miles and time, which gives the body a chance to finish rebuilding the muscles that have been stressed.
But there's also stress being put on the bones, ligaments, and tendons.
So I felt my ankle twinging on the 21st and I came to a stop after a bit, thinking I had sprained the ankle. Did the RICE, rest, ice, compression, and elevation, and was walking almost normally Christmas day. But then Thursday after Christmas I'm doing a gentle walk after lunch at work, and things begin hurting again. Went to doing RICE again, but wasn't any better by Tuesday this week, so I went to the doctor. He thought it was a sprain too, but put in referrals for x-rays and an ortho in case the ankle didn't start getting any better after a week.
When I woke up yesterday morning, I knew it wasn't getting any better, so I elected to use the referrals, get the ankle x-rayed and see what was going on.
The ortho and the staff at the office were both amazed and appalled that I had been walking around on it.
