Stress Fracture

[stdesjardins]

I did break my leg after all. It's just a tiny little stress fracture, barely even visible. The nurse looked at my X-rays and didn't even see it. But then the doctor got out my last set of X-rays, and there's a little white line which wasn't there before, which indicates healing bone. So I feel a little less of a wimp for feeling so rotten and miserable after walking on a broken leg for five blocks. (Memo: don't do that again.)

Right now my leg feels fine, but Dr. Gunther said to take it easy for a while longer, so I won't be going into work or seeing Return of the King for another two weeks.

Comments

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

I'm glad and pained and glad for you. Glad that what you felt wimpy about was actually rather impressive pain-resistance. Pained to hear that it turned out to be a fracture. Glad that it's healing!

Shall we start a "No, we haven't seen the Return of the bloody King yet!" club? :)

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

I don't think it counts as impressive pain resistance when you spend most of your time lying in bed feeling miserable. I'm not exactly sure how you can compare pain, anyway, considering how subjective it is.

"How much did it hurt?"

"Well, I spent most of my time lying in bed feeling miserable."

"And how did you handle it?"

"Well, I spent most of my time lying in bed feeling miserable."

"I see. Well, among the group of people who felt like spending most of their time lying in bed feeling miserable, your reaction puts you at exactly the 50th percentile."

No, I think you only get to claim impressive pain resistance when you do things like dig bullets out of your leg with a pocket knife and a bottle of iodine while fleeing through the jungle from Japanese soldiers during World War II. (Currently reading The Jungle is Neutral by F. Spencer Abraham. Puts my problems in perspective. Right now, out of all the British soldiers he started the war with, fighting behind enemy lines in Malaysia, he's the only one who isn't dead (from bullet wounds, tropical disease, or both) or captured.)

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

Hmm, okay. No pain resistance. Misery with a Reason, as opposed to irrational, inexplicable misery.

[fionagh.livejournal.com]

Glad that it turned out to be something real and not something you thought you were being wimpy about. Glad it's healing! Have a good holiday and kick back and relax! (Ok, well maybe not the kicking part of kicking back ...)

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

Yes, but where are my beautiful nurses? My contract says I get beautiful nurses. (It isn't fair. If Russell Crowe broke his leg, I bet he'd get beautiful nurses.)