Hey Guys! Okay so where to start? Hmm, I guess I'll start from the terrible mistake. So as you guys know, when you break your ankle and have surgery it's very hard to bathe. I mean unless you have a shower chair already, or unless you own like a plastic chair of some sort, your pretty much screwed. I had neither of those, so what I did was I wrapped my cast in a trash bag and tapped it to my leg with the only tape we own, (packing tape.) Here I am, wrapping my brand new cast in a trash bag while I can't feel the damn leg because my stupid ON Q pump medicine was still in my system. It was going alright besides the fact that my leg was virtually dead up to my butt cheek. So now my water is ready and I'm ready to get in. I figured since I had the bag over my cast in would be okay to put the leg in the water. WRONG. I was about 5 minutes into my bath when I realized I could feel a bit of warmth on my skin under the cast. So not good... I told my boyfriend to help me out quick. I was forcing myself out of the tub when my leg felt extra heavy. I crutched to the bed and ripped the trash bag off; it was full of water. My brand new cast was almost completely soaked on the back side. I rushed to the internet, and it said that I should try to blow dry it with cold air. Well that didn't work. Here I am all oily and now covered in dirty water while my foot is freezing off cause I'm drying my wet cast with cold air. It was not a good day for me. So I eventually give up and ask my boyfriend to take me to the emergency room to get this re-wrapped. Now the splint they gave me sucked. It was nothing like the beautiful cast my surgeon had put on me, not to mention it really hurt moving my freshly cut into foot around that much, but at least it was dry now. Lets just say the comfort didn't last long. The next day I couldn't take it anymore. The splint they gave me at the emergency room was wayyyyy to uncomfortable. My heel was being rubbed raw because there wasn't enough cushion and gauze, and it was put on crooked so my ankle was bent a weird way. My boyfriend didn't like it too much, but he took me back yet again to get it replaced. My poor foot :( It was being man handled so much. Finally this splint was actually comfortable. But just when I was getting used to it, I had my follow up appointment with my surgeon. So I go to this appointment thinking that he's going to redo the splint yet again, and I get all sad because I'm tired of taking my foot out and having it moved around. Instead of giving me a splint though, my awesome surgeon gives me a boot! Yay, this one is so much more comfortable, and adjustable, AND removable! It was great! I left there feeling so much better. No more splints, thank the heavens!
Now you guys see how ridiculous I am. I mean who puts a cast in the water, wrapped in a trash bag or not?! Well anyways, I wanna know if this have ever happened to you? Do you enjoy your boot or prefer a cast? Alright I'm off to bed, but next time I'll write about my experience with the boot and getting used to being dependent on people. It's gonna be a pretty serious post so don't miss out!
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