We've all seen these types of injuries before on TV or on social media. The reason I am posting this is I experienced something very similar to this, except when I looked down my foot was almost 75 degrees to my leg. To me honest, there was very little pain, I just rolled onto my side and watched my foot slowly kinda go back to it's normal position. My first reaction was "this is gonna be an ER visit"!! I fell about 10 feet and landed on something with my right foot. I found out after sitting in ER for about 4 hours of which when I got there the on call Dr. goes "Well get this casted up and get you out of here."
Well needless to say after x-rays, hearing nothing for anyone for 3 of those hours, it was like "well, you have a very serious injury and they lost count of bone fragments after 50 with some just pulverized. It was like a bomb went off in my ankle." Tibia and fibula were fine.
I can walk today without pain. I have no inward or outward movement of my foot, so instead of spraining my ankle it more than likely would break. Just can't jog, play basketball, ski (water and snow) or treadmill types of activities. Shout out to the doctors and nurses for all they did. Have had a few surgeries on it, but I really have had no pain from the injury itself after it happened. Sure adrenaline probably kicked in, but even after surgery, the morphine made me feel bad, so just some Tylenol was about all I had, along with some sleeping pills.
Well needless to say after x-rays, hearing nothing for anyone for 3 of those hours, it was like "well, you have a very serious injury and they lost count of bone fragments after 50 with some just pulverized. It was like a bomb went off in my ankle." Tibia and fibula were fine.
I can walk today without pain. I have no inward or outward movement of my foot, so instead of spraining my ankle it more than likely would break. Just can't jog, play basketball, ski (water and snow) or treadmill types of activities. Shout out to the doctors and nurses for all they did. Have had a few surgeries on it, but I really have had no pain from the injury itself after it happened. Sure adrenaline probably kicked in, but even after surgery, the morphine made me feel bad, so just some Tylenol was about all I had, along with some sleeping pills.