To go to minor injuries?

[NoNarnas]

Today at work at lunchtime I open a gate onto my foot, hurt at the time but I walked it off and it was a little sore. Continued walking on it all day with it just feeling a little bruised. However in the past half hour it has started throbbing and I now can’t weight bare at all!

I will feel very silly going to minor injuries when it can’t be broken as I wouldn’t have been able to walk all afternoon- however the pain is getting really unbearable and it hurts without me even moving it!

Glad it feels better, but just for the record I walked straight away and for 2 weeks on a knee fractured in 3 places

I went to a minor injuries unit after I injured my foot, I explained what had happened and where it hurt and they x-rayed it and promptly said "sprained ankle" over the next 6 weeks I went to my GP at least 5times, I was seen by 2 physio's (neither of them were convinced that it was just a sprain) the second one sent me for weight bearing x-rays the results of which made her even more sure that it was not a simple sprained ankle so she referred me to an orthopedic consultant who then sent me for a CT scan which confirmed their suspicions that I had been walking around for 6 weeks with multiple fractures and ligament damage (Lisfranc injury). I had to wear an Air Boot for 9 weeks, after that I was still in pain so I was sent for more physiotherapy, after weeks of waiting for an appointment she ended the physio after 5 sessions because I was still in pain and sent me back to the orthopedic consultant, after more waiting for an appointment the orthopedic consultant wanted to try steroid injections into the joint (had to be done under general anaesthetic so even more waiting) that didn't work either so the consultant said that surgery was the only option left, I waited a further 18 weeks for surgery.

The surgery took place a year after the injury occurred and when I saw the consultant post op he said that the injury was more complicated than he first thought and that the comminuted fractures had broken away leaving a large hole that had required bone grafts and a metal plate and pins to fix, so I had been walking around in pain with a broken foot for a year, I have had to have more surgery to put in another plate and pins in another joint and a screw through the whole thing to keep the Lisfranc Joint stable, I will probably need to have more surgery in the future because of the damage caused by the initial misdiagnosis. The scariest thing is that if the surgery didn't work then amputation would have been the only thing left to do.

Please don't think that if you can walk on an injured foot then there can't be any fractures, there can be and you could walk on it.