17 December 2008
Hardware
Here’s the latest x-ray from my doctor’s appointment this morning, where you can see the pins and buttons and such:
I was concerned by the fact that the fibula still has a giant gap in it, but the doctor wasn’t concerned. I don’t think the fibula matters to doctors. It matters to me, though. I hate the way it doesn’t line up there in the right-hand image. Gives me the heebie-jeebies.
I’m on crutches two more weeks, then I can start walking on it in the boot.
posted Wednesday, 17 Dec 2008 at 5:31pm by Kent in Overrated
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Well, the button-looking things are apparently a new technology. You can barely see it, but there is a wire that runs between them that binds the two leg bones together. I guess it runs along the outside of the bones? I’m not sure.
I just like the fact that there are a pair of shirt buttons inside my leg.
-Kent on Thursday, 18 Dec 2008 at 10:53am | Rating: 
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Iiiiiiick. You poor old sod. I’d be freaked by the break on the xray too. You’ve just(!) got 2 pins and the wire contraption in there?
Don’t overdo it when you get the boot on.
it seems like doctors would have come up with something better than a screw for this issue by now. It looks just like two screws. Not even two space age screws. Just two screws.
-mrunstoppable on Thursday, 18 Dec 2008 at 10:49am | Rating:
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