{"id":21059,"date":"2015-05-14T19:49:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T02:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=21059"},"modified":"2015-05-14T19:49:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T02:49:06","slug":"well-hecky-darn-it-was-broken-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/14\/well-hecky-darn-it-was-broken-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, hecky-darn. It was broken after all."},"content":{"rendered":"

I was so sure my ankle wasn’t broken<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s broken. <\/p>\n

Not a terrible break. Hairline. Now instead of hobbling around in a pressure bandage I’m hobbling around in a fracture boot<\/a>. Which helps — as long as I don’t trip over the stiff old thing and break something else.<\/p>\n

As always, I get by with a little help from my friends. Friends who pushed me to take this more seriously and friends who know much more than I do about dealing with such things. Friends who gave generously of their time and expertise.<\/p>\n

I hate going to doctors. The prospect of limping off to be potentially manhandled, misdiagnosed, over-tested, over-treated, over-medicated, financially depleted, and otherwise abused by the medical system freaks me out to the point where I cussed and cussed when I realized I had a break, not a pulled or torn something-or-another. When I told friend Y. how I swore, he laughed and said, “Oh, I can see you cussing like a Marine DI. ‘Hecky-darn!’ ‘Phooey!’ ‘H. e. double toothpicks!’.”<\/p>\n

I assured Y. that hecky-darn is not part of my cussing vocabulary. On the contrary, I may have taught some new words to a few of the young women who were around at the moment. <\/p>\n

It’s been very educational, though. In comments the other day, a couple of people mentioned fracturing their malleolus bones<\/a>. I had no idea such a thing as malleolus bones existed, let alone that we all have them in our ankles. Actually, melleolus is only a name for the bottom parts of more familiar leg bones. You may have known that since you were in the sixth grade. I didn’t. Now I know I have a fracture of the lateral malleolus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I could quite happily have gone the rest of my life without ever having any reason to learn that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was so sure my ankle wasn’t broken. It’s broken. Not a terrible break. Hairline. Now instead of hobbling around in a pressure bandage I’m hobbling around in a fracture boot. Which helps — as long as I don’t trip over the stiff old thing and break something else. As always, I get by with a little help from my friends. Friends who pushed me to take this more seriously and friends who know much more than I do about dealing with such things. Friends who gave generously of their time and expertise. I hate going to doctors. The prospect…<\/p>\n

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