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Injured ankle


thinking all is ok n self isolating for corona virus when i decided to go for a walk around the showground. Well, that was not a good idea. I put my foot in a hole and went arseup. Had to be helped up and helped to my van. I have a damaged ankle but strop came to the rescue and put me to bed with ice  packs and  panadol. We move to another spot in the showgrounds tomorrow. Looks like strop will be doing that by himself. Now strop is going to the chemist to get a compression bandage. As if isolating for corona virus wasnt enough **** to contend with. 



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thinking all is ok n self isolating for corona virus when i decided to go for a walk around the showground. Well, that was not a good idea. I put my foot in a hole and went arseup. Had to be helped up and helped to my van. I have a damaged ankle but strop came to the rescue and put me to bed with ice  packs and  panadol. We move to another spot in the showgrounds tomorrow. Looks like strop will be doing that by himself. Now strop is going to the chemist to get a compression bandage. As if isolating for corona virus wasnt enough **** to contend with. 


 Strop said nothing has changed, been doing the same for you for years.......biggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrin



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the rocket wrote:

thinking all is ok n self isolating for corona virus when i decided to go for a walk around the showground. Well, that was not a good idea. I put my foot in a hole and went arseup. Had to be helped up and helped to my van. I have a damaged ankle but strop came to the rescue and put me to bed with ice  packs and  panadol. We move to another spot in the showgrounds tomorrow. Looks like strop will be doing that by himself. Now strop is going to the chemist to get a compression bandage. As if isolating for corona virus wasnt enough **** to contend with. 


 Strop said nothing has changed, been doing the same for you for years.......biggrinbiggrinbiggrinbiggrin


Yes he has. We help each other. Ono change 4 days later. Not sure what to do except rest. 



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Ankles always take a long time, have had many of them. Compression bandage and start moving it as soon as you can, good luck.



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Sorry to hear about your ankle, at least you didn't fracture four ribs 200mm off the ground, six weeks of suffering.

Keep it raised & keep moving..... Gently.



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Sorry to hear about your ankle, at least you didn't fracture four ribs 200mm off the ground, six weeks of suffering.

Keep it raised & keep moving..... Gently.


 Ouch that sounds painful. Its been 6 days n no better so i went to hospital today n xray says i broke my distal fibula. In a cast now n waiting on appt. to c orthopaedic specialist toowoomba hospital. first time in 5 years i feel i should stop travelling. We are 2 hrs from toowoomba. as if corona was not enough to worry about.  Just feel old today.



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I was on my elbows & toes taking a photo, a rock came loose & I went splat. First half day was ok, but that night I couldn't lie down or even get down.

The worst was 100km of outback roads, I had to support my weight on my arms.

A week later I went to Manly Hospital for X-rays, they couldn't see anything & I had to argue for pain relief to sleep.

The next week we were camping again with a friend from Europe for a week. When we got home there was a message from the hospital.

The hospital had looked at my X-rays again & found 4 ribs fractured along the length of the ribs, apparently harder to see on the X-rays.

 

Many decades ago I fell 6 metres out of a tree & bruised my little toe on a stick!



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Keep your foot up as much as you can.



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Whenarewethere wrote:

I was on my elbows & toes taking a photo, a rock came loose & I went splat. First half day was ok, but that night I couldn't lie down or even get down.

The worst was 100km of outback roads, I had to support my weight on my arms.

LA week later I went to Manly Hospital for X-rays, they couldn't see anything & I had to argue for pain relief to sleep.

The next week we were camping again with a friend from Europe for a week. When we got home there was a message from the hospital.

The hospital had looked at my X-rays again & found 4 ribs fractured along the length of the ribs, apparently harder to see on the X-rays.

 

Many decades ago I fell 6 metres out of a tree & bruised my little toe on a stick!


 Omg that would have been torture on dirt roads.

surgery tmrw for surgery, plate n bolts. now i am going to b bionic woman.



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the rocket wrote:
Whenarewethere wrote:

I was on my elbows & toes taking a photo, a rock came loose & I went splat. First half day was ok, but that night I couldn't lie down or even get down.

The worst was 100km of outback roads, I had to support my weight on my arms.

LA week later I went to Manly Hospital for X-rays, they couldn't see anything & I had to argue for pain relief to sleep.

The next week we were camping again with a friend from Europe for a week. When we got home there was a message from the hospital.

The hospital had looked at my X-rays again & found 4 ribs fractured along the length of the ribs, apparently harder to see on the X-rays.

 

Many decades ago I fell 6 metres out of a tree & bruised my little toe on a stick!


 Omg that would have been torture on dirt roads.

surgery tmrw for surgery, plate n bolts. now i am going to b bionic woman.


 Recovering well. Steel plate and 10 bolts. 



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Don't go walking around an aluminium smelter, due to the massive magnetic field you will be stuck to the pot line!



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Update, got cast off. Cannot walk on it but start physio on monday. Onwards n upwards from here. Looking forward to planning our next adventure.



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