| Picture Post: My Broken Leg |
 Picture Post: My Broken Leg
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Jan. 10th, 2012 @ 03:23 pm 
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Just below this, in the cut tag for this post, there is going to be a warning. I cannot stress enough how much I mean it, so I'm also going to say it in the actual post:
If you are squeamish, particularly about injuries, bruises, cuts, stitches, or anything like that at all, I advise against looking at the photos in this post. At all. Just don't do it, you don't want to see it. I used my phone to take pictures of my broken leg when the cast and stitches were removed, and they are pretty appalling, as far as legs go.
However, if you are not squeamish, and are interested in looking at the effects on the outward appearance of a human leg caused by breaking bones and surgical repair, then click away.
Okay. Here we have some of the spectacular bruising on my shin when the cast was removed. (Helpfully, it's been ages since I got much sun on my legs, so they're nice and pale to bring out the contrast.)
No, that yellow isn't any kind of antiseptic or anything, it's allll bruise.
Meanwhile, a little lower down the leg, and still nice and lurid, we have my ankle and foot:
Note the line of sutures on the genuinely lengthy incision! My feet are not tiny, those incisions are over 10cm long, and there's one on each side of my ankle.
Here you can see the stitches being removed:
... and what my ankle looks like with them gone:
Those shots are all of my inner ankle, because it's a *lot* easier for me to take photos on that side than the outside, given the limitations imposed on movement by a broken ankle *and* broken fibula (just below the knee). The outside line, though, looks pretty much the same, except that there was a little bit of blood where there was one spot that hadn't quiiiite closed as thoroughly, which now has Steri-strips to hold it together.
The nurse was at first concerned at the amount of blood, but then I pointed out that I'm taking Clexane shots daily, and therefore my blood isn't clotting very well at the moment.
I now have another cast, a proper all-the-way-around one with the higher grade of plaster. It's even blue. I keep this cast for a month, and then it gets removed, everything gets checked, and then I get some kind of boot cast that's even removable so I can wash my leg and stuff. In the meantime, I'm to keep my foot elevated, so... yeah, I still live on the couch.
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January 10th, 2012 10:27 pm (UTC) |
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oooh! your incision looks to be healing beeyootifully. hopefully the bone will do the same.
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January 11th, 2012 04:41 pm (UTC) |
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Reminds me of when my head was healing, but I had desolvable stitches. :)
Holy smokes. You really did some damage!
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