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At the age of 18, my DH was hit by a truck on his motorcycle. It shattered his tibia and broke his fibula.
In the ER, doc said, how do I fix that?
Well, they put a steel plate in there.
DH broke that steel plate, he had to go for more surgery, and have bone graph off his hip.
I met him when he was 19, a month before he turned 20.
He walked with a cane.
He had nonunion of the tibia, he went for surgery again, they took bone graph from his other hip, and another steel plate.
The gap in the tibia finally started filling in.
A few moths later, he developed infection, months of antibiotics would not knock out the infection.
He went for more surgery, they took out plate and cut out 60% of the bone that had finally started growing back in.
He stayed in the hosp for a month with tubes in his legs, pumping antibiotics through the leg.
A few years later, his big toe was permanently stuck at a bend and it was painful to walk and the top of his toe rubbed on his shoe and he was walking in the tip of his big toe.
More surgery, cut the tendon to lengthen it, it had stuck to the bone at the surgery site.
Toe got better, but whenever he bends his ankle, which has very limited motion, the toes pull down.
He supported a wife (me) and raised 3 boys, despite all his pain and difficulty.
His leg has always hurt, but recently it has really started hurting. He has shooting, burning pains in his foot to his bending toes. His leg is looking bowed. He's stubborn, won't go to drs much.
I called the docs office yesterday, said he hurt his leg and they said come in today.
Sent for x rays.
They guy that read the xrays, came in while he was still on x-ray table and asked, when did you break your leg? Didn't they set it?
Now, i do not know what that means, we do not get results till Monday afternoon.
Is it fractured again? Has it slipped out of place, thats why it is bowed? Had he actually nearly broke it again but it healed already but unset?
Then I went to my friend from FL mom's house and had b-day dinner and cake for her mother that turned 80.
That's where I was.
