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When you were pregnant???? I hope everything is ok now!
Yeah, not a picnic and we had a vacation planned/paid for three days after so had to go - me and my boot. It took longer to heal they thought bc of the extra weight I was carrying but eventually the toes healed.
I was moving my bare foot forward when I failed to clear the corner of a wall. It caught the second toe from the little toe and bent it at a right angle to my foot. The toe that took the brunt of the impact swelled and got dark purple. The little toe less so, and the top of my foot swelled a bit and turned a pale shade of green.
I didn't do anything about it. It's been at least three years since it healed. The toe next to my little toe has less movement that it did before. It also sometimes swells a little and gets a bit numb, as it something is blocking blood flow. Unless it starts looking like it might fall off, I can live with it. However, in retrospect, I probably should have gone to the doc after I injured it.
I think I broke that same toe on my right foot when I also ran it into a corner as I was doing my usual charging through the house ( I don't charge anymore, I'm too old, LOL). I saw stars, the toe swelled up, looked like a grape on a swollen stalk and I couldn't move it. I didn't get medical help for it, figuring they wouldn't do anymore than I could do myself, ie, buddy wrap, ice, elevate, NSAIDS. It healed, and fortunately I can move it ok. But that toe looks markedly different than it did before, and different from the same toe on the other foot. It's much shorter than the other toe, and the end is rather bulbous.
Stepping on a lego with bare feet is very painful. Ask your friends with small kids, LOL. Thankfully, my kids were not huge into legos, so it happened to me only once.
A podiatrist for fractured toes? She needs to see an orthopedic dr. not a podiatrist. Where does she live? Does she have anyone who can help her. I am going to assume she does not live in the USA.
LOL. Why do you think that she needs to see an orthopedic doctor? What do you think he or she would do (if anything) with the aunt's fractured toes that a podiatrist wouldn't or couldn't?
When I was working in a Rehab Hospital while in Grad school in the 90s, PM&R was the generally accepted name for the specialty. That's obviously changed and everyone, including my spouse who is Ortho, calls them Physiatrists now it seems. As I recall, the specialty seemed to gain a lot of appeal and popularity in the 2000s for Med students to try and match into because it was considered a "lifestyle" specialty. I think it's since cooled way off, though I could be wrong.
Also, these stories of how people on here broke their toes are making me cringe a bit. At least nobody's mentioned stepping on a lego...
Yup, I graduated from med school in 2007, and PM&R was gaining popularity back then. The problem is, that in med school, there are no required rotations and many med students have zero exposure to it. So unless you do an elective, it's hard to really learn much about it. Also, it's a little nebulous as to what exactly they do from a med student's perspective, because they overlap a lot with Ortho, Neurology, Rheumatology, and Physical Therapy, so it's hard to understand what they do. DO (osteopathic students) I think are probably a little more knowledgeable about it since they undergo some physical medicine training.
As an MD (allopathic) student, I really didn't get much exposure to the specialty, although it popped up when we were given information about specialties.
But it is definitely a nice lifestyle specialty. When I did my IM residency, I learned a little about inpatient PM&R (stroke rehab) because I knew one of the residents. If I could go back into time, I'd definitely look into it more. It still has not gained a lot of notoriety from the general public yet, but it's a pretty cool specialty.
- No Advil because it weakens bones. Only take if pain is intolerable (my Aunt and Podiatrist agree that Advice once at night is sufficient. Rest of time she will take Asprin)
- Setting up ultrasound therapy everyday. Someone will come to my Aunt's home to show her how to do it
- Also mentioned the knee scooter (much better than crutches!). I'll ask my Aunt to see if a nearby senior center can loan it to her.
Thank you once again!
Call the doctor, assuming she has medicare part B they will cover the scooter, or a walker or whatever else she needs
Also, these stories of how people on here broke their toes are making me cringe a bit. At least nobody's mentioned stepping on a lego...
Haha, my left foot got mangled when a SAM hit the chopper I was in. I wasn't able to get medical attention for it right away and my toes ended up all bent and twisted. It was more than a year before I could get the Army hospital at my official duty station to do some corrective surgery before I ETS'd.
Corrective surgery amounted to re-breaking bones, cutting joints, and inserting (pounding in) stainless steel to be left while the bones fused. The SS was left sticking out, to be removed after the bones fused. The SS was bent at a right angle like an allen wrench, and after a few weeks I could spin the rods around like screwing in a bolt...it was great for meeting women at the bar ('sympathy' factor). Hey, got to be a 'light' side to this story, right?
(Yeah, decades later it still hurts, sometimes intensely, so I *have* to focus on the 'bright side'.)
Haha, my left foot got mangled when a SAM hit the chopper I was in. I wasn't able to get medical attention for it right away and my toes ended up all bent and twisted. It was more than a year before I could get the Army hospital at my official duty station to do some corrective surgery before I ETS'd.
Corrective surgery amounted to re-breaking bones, cutting joints, and inserting (pounding in) stainless steel to be left while the bones fused. The SS was left sticking out, to be removed after the bones fused. The SS was bent at a right angle like an allen wrench, and after a few weeks I could spin the rods around like screwing in a bolt...it was great for meeting women at the bar ('sympathy' factor). Hey, got to be a 'light' side to this story, right?
(Yeah, decades later it still hurts, sometimes intensely, so I *have* to focus on the 'bright side'.)
I appreciate the sentiment, but there are others far more deserving of it than I am. I volunteered, not just for service, but for a special duty that I *knew* would put me into conflict. I was looking for adventure, and I found it.
Those who are most deserving of it, are those who were drafted and didn't want to fight but did it anyway, and NG troops that I feel should not have been expected to be deployed overseas- that is the expected job of the regular forces.
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