Last night, I flipped a bit late and smacked my heel pretty hard on the metallic edge of our pool. I've done this before as I suspect many of our rank and file members have in their respective pools. Usually, it's pretty sore the next day, but you manage to continue onwards with a mild limp for a while, and then it goes away.
This time, however, I find I can hardly walk this morning. It's really quite painful, and I can feel my heart beat via yelps of pain in my heel.
I am just wondering if any of you have some recommendations for expediting recovery. In the greater scheme of things, I realize this is a minor affliction. But when you can no longer keep up on walks with your 13-and-1/2 year old arthritic pugs, it tends to induce a certain amount of desire to return to normal.
Or as close to that as one can hope for.
Prognoses?
Jim -
All kidding aside, if the pain persists as you describe, get to a doctor for an exam/xray. I mashed my heel at Iowa State back when they had the metal corners on their deck and not only sliced it wide open, but also managed to shatter a bone.
It took quite a while to get over that.
Matt
Matt, did learning that you had shattered a bone lead to any kind of difference in treatment? I have learned, for example, that when you break ribs, there is not really anything the doctor can do about it other than advising you that with time, your ribs will stop hurting and heal on their own.
I am not sure if the same applies to a (potentially) shattered heal bone. I doubt that mine is broken, but on the outside chance it is, would being able to document this via an X-ray or other scan mean I'd need a cast or some other sort of treatment?
The older I get, and the worse my health insurance becomes, the less inclined I am to go to a doctor for anything besides, that is, a Rx for the Brompton's Cocktail I am hoping to secure one day soon!
Unfortunately, Michael Jackson's doctor is serving time, and I am not sure Kurt Dickson can prescribe juice of this sort across state lines, though god knows I would like to think he would like to!
The mind in pain, self-medicated with Sierra Nevada, sometimes begins to take little sortees.
I apologize if this sortee has offended anybody in the Dickson and/or greater USMS life-affirming community!
Jim -
All kidding aside, if the pain persists as you describe, get to a doctor for an exam/xray. I mashed my heel at Iowa State back when they had the metal corners on their deck and not only sliced it wide open, but also managed to shatter a bone.
It took quite a while to get over that.
Matt
Matt, did learning that you had shattered a bone lead to any kind of difference in treatment? I have learned, for example, that when you break ribs, there is not really anything the doctor can do about it other than advising you that with time, your ribs will stop hurting and heal on their own.
I am not sure if the same applies to a (potentially) shattered heal bone. I doubt that mine is broken, but on the outside chance it is, would being able to document this via an X-ray or other scan mean I'd need a cast or some other sort of treatment?
The older I get, and the worse my health insurance becomes, the less inclined I am to go to a doctor for anything besides, that is, a Rx for the Brompton's Cocktail I am hoping to secure one day soon!
Unfortunately, Michael Jackson's doctor is serving time, and I am not sure Kurt Dickson can prescribe juice of this sort across state lines, though god knows I would like to think he would like to!
The mind in pain, self-medicated with Sierra Nevada, sometimes begins to take little sortees.
I apologize if this sortee has offended anybody in the Dickson and/or greater USMS life-affirming community!
