How the heck am I going to manage for the next 6-8 weeks?

[duchesse]

With a broken ankle and a 16 month old baby? We live in the sticks and I can't drive while I have the cast on, so stuck at home in the sticks for the best part of 2 flipping months!! No buses, obviously.

Blimey duchesse I'd seen you'd had an ankle mishap on FB but not realised it was a pin and plate job Cripes. Hope is all going OK....sorry, couldn't think of anything remotely helpful to say. x

aristocat, jj, thanks me dears. I'm such a lightweight that I find I can't keep up with Forty Towers and get lost on what's going on... And then I pop my head around the door once in a blue moon and feel like a fraud and run away again.

Lurcio- who knew? We've even been on threads together and everything... I just checked and we were on a C Section thread last winter.

Oh, and Lurcio, that's really sweet of you but it is a VERY long way from the nearest bus stop! Best to come back for supper or somesuch with A some time in the moty car.

I remember the C section thread!

It was quite a shock to see you'd broken your ankle badly - I guess it's 'cos I haven't bumped into your DH (sounds funny calling him that) at work in the last few days. Hope the pinning and plating goes OK. The RD&E's pretty good, but make sure you push for physio when appropriate (I've known people get fobbed off at other hospitals). Anyway, must get back to my tax returns (which is why poor wee A is in nursery this morning).

Ah, it's not that bad- I got away with only "one nice big plate" as the surgeon said cheerfully. Only three fractures and a ligament rupture. It could have been far worse. I must stop googling stuff.

Three fractures and a ligament rupture! [shock ::runs off feeling queasy::

duchesse its all peri-menopause and potty training at the moment at 40T ..... ouch! ouch! for your ankle and hope you get better soon

glad you are all sorted

now the long and arduous process of rehab!

Thanks for asking! Things the same here-still broken, too early for physio etc. I got dressed independently for the first time in 19 days today (braless of course!).

DS is getting lots of attention with mum and dad both at home. DH is a bit fed up though. I slept lying down for the first time last night, which was sort of more comfortable.

Are you taking tramadol?

I dislocated and fractured my ankle 2 years ago on boxing day. Dd was 2.8 abd dh works evenings and we have 3 storey house. As the post pain eased I found I could do more and go so speedy going up and down stairs on my bum. Itcwas exhausting and you have my sympaty. I had a plate, pins and a tightrope and have to say I have had no problems. When your physio starts try to do exactly what they tell you. It feels scarey and daunting at the moment but it does get easier as time goes on and youfind a way through it.

Good luck to all of you healing broken bones. It is tough but it gets easier the frustration is awful so don't be afraid to have a good cry now and again.

Arrrg Duchesse nightmare.
Can you ask the hospital or social services for a walking frame trolley? My grandad uses one to get his dinner from the kitchen when he usually uses two crutches. It's really useful.
Glad you have people visiting and helping out. Wish I lived nearer so could help.

bored bored bored bored bored bored bored

yep!

yep!

theId- they don't even plaster humerus fractures do they? So you have the added worry of accidentally knocking your fracture (Owee!). Luckily unless I jar the foot or accidentally stand on it as I did three days ago (stumbled over bloody DD2's school bag left in middle of floor) it is relatively pain-free as long as I keep it raised. So am spending A LOT of time on the sofa recuperating reading novels.

All that to say that no I am not taking tramadol. As I'm breastfeeding I'm limited in the drugs I'm allowed anyway. They sent me away with Diclofenac and paracetamol. Diclofenac just has a weird effect on me so I avoid it all costs, and haven't had to have paracetamol for a couple of days either. Luckily it's not all that painful.

I have had to stop feeding DS, first due to the morphine/tramadol cocktail. Then after a few days, when I could stop those, because my arm (yes, plaster free) strapped across my chest, so he couldn't get in to do it, iyswim....

This was almost as traumatic for me as the fall itself. My plan was natural term feeding! He has been fine (he was very upset when he saw me on the pavement with all the screaming-WAY worse than labour!)as he seems to have realised that something major has happened. He has asked but accepts that it's all gone because Mummy's arm is broken .

Gulp.

Anyway, brave faces all round, right?

Hope your day has been OK.

Oh poor you. It's good that he's taking it well- I hope you're not beating yourself up about it- especially in your fragile condition. I'm thinking we should have a separate fracture support thread- what d'you think?

Just started one here.