I broke my leg 8 days ago, but it took 4 days for the swelling to come down enough to put the screws in it and put a plaster cast on it. Until this point my leg hurt, but not my foot. After all, it is my leg that is injured. After they put the cast on it my foot has been in agony. I went back to the hospital on Saturday, where the nurse I saw confirmed my cast is too tight and tried to stretch it a little but said she could not remove the cast until Wednesday this week due to the incisions that were made to insert the screws needing to be kept as clean and untouched as possible. It was a temporary relief to have the cast slackened a little, but it's not been enough. The best way I can thing to describe it is if you wrap a little bit of thread around the end of your finger it doesn't hurt to start with, then it gets a bit uncomfortable, and if you don't remove it, it will eventually become excrutiating.
Obviously I am not going to stick a pair of secoteurs up by the incisions, but AIBU to just trim a little bit near my toes to take the pressure off my foot? Just a wee, tiny, little bit? I'll try not to cut a toe off or anything...
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to consider taking a pair of secateurs to my plaster cast?
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Backinthebox · 04/07/2011 22:08
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