Hello all!
I hope this blog will help others understand this injury and the treatment of it, and help me keep a timeline of events during this trying time. On Monday July 12th, 2010 I missed a step going into my basement apartment (in my moms house). I laid there on the floor, shocked. The pain was pretty bad for about 5 minutes and then went away. I decided to just wait there for my boyfriend to come home from work to help me to the couch because I knew I couldn't walk on it. It was like the commercial "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up." I was embarrassed, and hoped it was nothing, but when he came home he saw that my foot was swelling fast. My mom came down and we iced it all night. I called my job, and researched some local doctors phone numbers for the next morning. There was no way I was going to the emergency room. I have never been to the hospital nor was I planning on it. I was not in pain, It was late at night and I was still in shock.
At first we thought it was just a bad sprain or a possible break. My foot was blowing up. The next morning my mother took me to an orthopedist who told me the X-Rays showed no break and I would be walking on it in a couple of days. Luckily my mother spoke up and said I should get an MRI on it to see if there is any damage. All I can say is the process of getting the MRI results was ridiculous. The MRI was done on a Wednesday and I was supposed to get the results the next day. By the weekend I was really pissed off because I had already taken a week off from work and wanted to know what the hell was going on. I really couldn't get myself to get in the car again. Hopping and crawling had taken a toll on me. Thankfully we were able to get a wheelchair and crutches from a nearby medical supply company. My foot had a huge bruise on the bottom and bruising was beginning to show around the toes.
I awoke to a phone call that Monday morning telling me real bad news. The ligament had almost a complete tear & I had a slight fracture at my 4th metatarsal, so my orthopedist referred me to a foot specialist at The Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan.
The top of my foot (after having a purplish reddish bruise for a few days) turned greenish yellow.
The bottom of my foot (so swollen you can not see the arch) with bruising becoming more visible.
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