Link wrote:
Now I have a smaller cast, so I don't need to worry about typing. I'll still have to wear it for 3-6 weeks, and NO PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. =( It sucks, but it's better than nothing. I'm getting a month's supply of Tylenol for the pain, so I'll be fine.
Take it from someone who has broken several bones in the past, when the doctor says "No activity," don't try to justify a little "activity" here and there.
I broke both bones in my calf when I was 15 while skiing and was told the same thing. Yet, I still managed to walk home from school on crutches everyday (with my boyfriend holding my books), go to the mall with my friends and walk from one end to the other and back again, hop from place to place in my house without the crutches, etc. In other words, I acted as if I didn't have the cast and was just about as active as I had been beforehand. I was a teenager in "love" with my first boyfriend and not about to let a broken leg keep me from being with my friends.
And, by doing all of that activity, I was putting all of my weight on the one good leg. So, of course, as soon as the cast was off, the doctor discovered a stress fracture in in one of the calf bones in my good leg. So, I got crutches for 2 more months so the "good leg" could heal--and a good throttling by the doctor for not listening to him. Argh!
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