To "selectively" follow doctor's orders?

[CallMeExhausted]

Abbreviated version of annoyingly long back story.

I broke my foot in early September, however after being casted both in a walking cast and non-weight bearing, it was showing no sign of healing. At the beginning of December, I had an op where it was reassembled with a plate and half a dozen screws.

I followed the surgeon's directions to the tee - no weight at all on that foot for 6 weeks, and then 2 weeks ago he gave me the "go ahead" to bear full weight as long as I was in my walking boot again.

I am still behaving myself, but admittedly getting a little tired of this. I saw him again yesterday, and he advised me that there is still no sign of the bone knitting at all. He wants me to continue to walk, but less - although I haven't been doing much over the last two weeks.

He is starting to talk about me requiring more surgery, including a bone graft. Of course, this is not going to happen immediately.

So - here is where it gets complicated. I see the surgeon again in basically two weeks. Two weeks from today, I am due to take a desperately needed weekend trip to see friends I have not seen in years. I have a disabled child, and this will be the first time I have taken time for myself in nearly a decade.

If I go, understandably, there will be a lot of walking. If I don't, it is doubtful that I will have this opportunity again for years.

Of course, I will try to limit myself a bit, but am I foolish to be going at all?

If you were in my shoes (or, more accurately, shoe and walking boot), what would you do?

Can you drink a pint of milk everyday?
Also take magnesium supplements to help the absorption of the calcium.
Avoid cola, rhubarb and spinach.

I 'm wondering if you have a dietary problem too.

All right, I'll jump on the nutritionary bandwagon here and ask about vitamin D. Have you had it tested, do you know if you're low, are you on vit D supplements, and even if all the previous answers are no, I strongly suggest you get some. And take 3000IU per day. It won't do you any harm at that level, and might help - here is an indication that it has positive benefits on fracture healing www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3597312/

Also, as well as the meat, are you eating butter? and eggs from grass fed chickens? This will introduce vitamin K2, menaquinone, which has the useful facility of turning on a protein called osteocalcin, whose job is to move calcium into the bones (and out of other areas). Vit K1 (from green leafy veg) also has this facility but less so than Vit K2. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11706280

You can also get vit K2 from fermented seaweed type foods (not so normal in the UK!) and that is in an even more useful form, MK7.
MK7 supplements can be hard to find, if not impossible, in the UK, although they are available in the US.

These measures might help to promote fracture healing, but as yours aren't even doing the basics, it might not achieve anything - but worth a go?