Any Dr’s about? What are the chances that this ISN’T broken?😞

[Chelsea26]

On holiday in Turkey - slipped on a boat yesterday and this is now my ankle.

Can bear weight (hugely painful) and have movement so thought just bad sprain but it’s got considerably bigger and bluer overnight.

It’s 40 degrees here and I have 5 days left, not being able to go in the pool will be torture!! 😩

@Ineffable23 I don’t speak Turkish but they had insurance/tourist people who spoke very good English today.

I think overnight google translate will be my friend and I’m probably just going to get an early night and make tomorrow come quicker.

Everyone has been very very nice which is lovely and our friends we made at FB the hotel are waiting for DP now so he can go and have dinner/drinks with them which is cool.

You don’t have kids there with you then by the sound of it?

@TimeandMotion No we don’t thankfully. This was meant to be our relaxing break before the mad summer holidays - which have suddenly become a bit more difficult!😣

Tip for the top, the worst part of this is post op swelling. It can be very painful if you are in plaster because you cannot ease the pressure . Make sure you get an orthopaedic boot rather than plaster , particularly as you will be , in theory, flying , you can ease straps and air bladders as ankle swells up.

Also phone up airline to get a seat with leg room so you can prop the leg up as this is important to keep swelling down, and get wheelchair assistance at both ends .

That's good, the language barrier would be one of my biggest worries about being in hospital in a different country.

Oh dear OP, reading your latest update, shades of what happened to me in Turkey (and as posted this morning), right down to the random hotel doctor!

Luckily in your case you didn’t wait ten days to find out it was broken!

My ankle was never the same again after being re-broken and set. I think you avoided the worst here.

Oh my goodness, who are these over-confident 'doctors' roaming the hotels of Turkey?!

Aren’t doctors allowed a holiday? 🤔 The doctor is literally a guest on holiday (who made a very ill advised comment), not an actual doctor there treating people!

One who left her Xray Specs at home

Hop all is going well OP.

When you leave the hospital ask if you can take your X-ray.

Also try to get instruction for removing the cast if you have one put on. Lots of medical stuff is the same world over but there can be some differences. My cousin had his appendix removed in France, when he got home the nurse at the local surgery struggled to remove the stiches as the French doctor used a different type of stitch.

Morning All!

Back from surgery now and on mission “let me out today - don’t keep me another night!”

I’m feeling fine and have a soft bandage on it at the moment which leaves me hopeful for a boot rather than a cast but we shall see…

Thank you @sashh

We've got a photo of the X-ray and the insurance company have been sent it too.

To be honest the opportunity to ask questions has been pretty limited today so I don’t know what they’ve done to me or what the aftercare is but I’m compiling a list of questions for when the doctor comes again.

Glad you're out of the operation, I hope you get out of hospital today. I would want to find out what they are proposing for managing post operative pain once you're back in the hotel and then also on the journey home.

Glad you are feeling well. Hope your recovery is swift and good.

Of course: you misunderstood a light hearted comment. Fine for doctors to take holidays, but odd for these two to spend it misdiagnosing random people around the hotel!

Quite silly of that doctor to try to advise - if you had acted on their advice they might have been liable for any damage caused as a result.

Morning All

Been discharged this morning and back at the hotel with crutches, a moon boot, painkillers and blood thinners which is great!

Apart from…

our beautiful and charming hotel is built into a cliff and as such has about 20 stairs before you even get to reception and other stairs everywhere too!

I underestimated how hard that would be to navigate and have collapsed on our bed in a sweaty knackered mess wishing I’d committed to the pre-holiday diet and fitness regime with much more enthusiasm!!

But there you go - I’ll survive!

Thanks once again for all the support, advice and well wishes - not so vypery after all are we?!

Thanks for the update, Chelsea. I like your spirit: you're not mooning around moaning about a ruined holiday by the sounds of it. Glad you have good pain relief.

It'll be a good story for your next few dinner parties I think!

All the best, hope you can park by the pool and be waited on had and (broken) foot.

OP I am so glad you went to get it xrayed. I wish to fuck the "if you can bear weight it's not broken" archaic bs would die a quick death. Can health professionals reading this please make this myth and lie fuck the fuck off, asap! I've broken 3 bones in my life (each foot, and a finger) and each time, each...fucking....time, I was able to bear weight. It depends also on your 'pain threshold'.

On my feet (two different occasions) my feet rolled over under my body as I fell, and fractured them.

Guess what? I was able to position my foot ever so slightly while walking on the very side edge of my foot so it wasn't as painful as I wasn't walking where it was fractured. It is very easy to bear weight even with broken foot. Ok, may not very easy, but doable. I was also able to walk on the very outside of my heel (think ballet walking on toes but the opposite on back rear of your heel).

This is 2024, what sort of medics are still pushing that ancient bs? Where are they getting their medical degree from, and wtf are they being taught?

@SoreAndTired1 Yws it was the same with me - I could bear weight if I very carefully placed my foot down in a certain position, and sort of ‘set’ my ankle before pushing down, I do have quite a high pain threshold and I also don’t like people who whimper aloud with every step, it’s unnecessary!

So I think I didn’t look like I was in that much pain and that’s why she assumed. But she didn’t bother asking any of that so her assumption was very wrong! She flew home this morning so I didn’t have the awkward face off which I’m pleased about but she did know she was wrong as my friend showed her the x-ray. Hopefully she’ll think twice in the future

Have had some lunch and a beer by the pool so all is well until I have to move again!

I think you can reassure yourself, Sore... I have never heard a doctor, surgeon, nurse or physio spout "if you can weight bear it's not broken".

The idea may still live on with a few armchair physicians, but not with any real medical professionals, I am pretty sure.

Even Chelsea, in her opening post, was pretty sure it was a break despite being able to walk on it. And the doctor who proclaimed the ankle "not broken" had not even asked about weight bearing so clearly for her it was not a factor. So I don't think the weight-bearing fallacy is as rife as you seem to think it is.

Glad you are on the mend.

Can the hotel move you to a better room or even to another more modern hotel?

Thanks @sashh There isn’t a room here that would get rid of stairs completely so our room is as well positioned as any other for the pool and the restaurant really. We booked independently so no tour operated “other hotels” either.

It’s only for one more night so we’re doing ok

Current position

So glad you're able to make the best of it Op - safe home when the time comes!

Beautiful surrounds to recover in. Sorry your holiday hasn’t turned out as planned op. 💐