Wife Broke Her Leg Last Week

[ProfessorGAC]

Coming down stairs at home. Clean break. No surgery. And at least it's the other leg. Same bone. Different side.

She's down because it's going to waste 5 weeks of summer.

[Fla Dem]

1. No time is a good time to break one's leg, but yep it sucks it's at the height of summer.

Best wishes to your wife for a quick recovery.

[femmocrat]

2. Wishing your wife a speedy recovery!

[davidpdx]

3. Wishing your wife a speedy recovery

It may be a waste of 5 weeks of summer, but at least you are home where she can be comfortable.

I had never broken a bone in my body until 2011 when I broke my ankle. This was several weeks before we were due to fly from Korea to the US for vacation and I made matters worse by walking on it for a few days before I went to the doctor. I ended up buying a boot and was able to go, but just to make matters worse I started to get sick right before we left. By the time we got to Oregon I was very sick. Went to a urgent care clinic and got some medication. Went up to Portland and still wasn't feeling well and went to another urgent care clinic and they said go straight to the emergency room. I ended up in the hospital for 5 days with pneumonia and my broken ankle.

On top of all that I had to go to China to teach for 10 months right after we got back from Korea and my apartment was on the fourth floor. I gained so much weight that I'm still trying to lose it.

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Shazzam!

What an experience.

[niyad]

5. wishing her a speedy and complete recovery.

[DFW]

6. Tell her to take it easy and be thankful she didn't do what my wife did

On April 11th, my wife slipped and fell trying to use her left hand to break her fall. Instead, she broke evhave with lymph nodes.ery bone in her left wrist, needed immediate drastic surgery, and took three months to get close to being back to normal. The metal armor they inserted into her wrist is still there, and since she has no lymph nodes on her left side (legacy from her cancer surgery 14 yearsago), it is not healing as well as it should.

Still, though--missing 5 weeks of summer = bummer.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Another Yikes!

On top of that, my wife's good friend fell off a ladder last Friday and broke BOTH wrists.

Something in the water maybe.

[DFW]

10. Only if your wife's friend lives in suburban Düsseldorf

...as we do.

[DawgHouse]

7. Oh, it's not a waste!

Head over to the Netflix group for some good binge watching recommendations.

Glad it was a clean break and no surgery is needed.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Time for some binge watching of shows that she's missed.

Lots of good ones out there. What kind of genre does she like? Maybe we can make recommendations.

[HeiressofBickworth]

11. Disneyland!!!

Seriously! The best time I ever had at Disneyland was the year I had broken my foot and was in a cast and on crutches -- no way was I going to be able to get around DL like that. I contacted a wheelchair company, had a chair delivered to my hotel (across the street from DL) and then had it picked up at the hotel after I left town. Disneyland was extremely accommodating to someone in a wheelchair. The streets are perfectly level so being wheeled around is easier. Store and restaurant isles are wide enough for a wheelchair. And best yet, wheelchair people don't have to wait in line for rides. You go in the out door, board the ride before it gets to the boarding place for the others, and off you go. I was fortunate enough to be able to hobble a couple of steps from the chair to the ride.

Otherwise, I was prepared to spend the healing time reading, sewing, needlework, TV and DVDs.

Hope your wife finds way to while away her time as the bone knits.

[TexasBushwhacker]

12. I will only live in 1 story apartments and houses

I am a total klutz. It's a wonder I've never broken a bone. I fell flat on my face on a sidewalk and chipped a tooth though. I busted my upper lip and had to get 2 stitches.

I hope your wife takes it easy and gets better.

[Kali]

13. ...

for swimming get this:

http://www.drycorp.com/waterproof-cast-cover/

for showers this will do:

http://www.drycast.com/collections/shower-cast-covers/products/shower-leg

[ProfessorGAC]

14. Thanks

No place to swim around here. Small town. Nearest pool is 18 miles away and i still have to go to work every day. But, we have the cast cover from when she broke her other leg (same bone) a few years ago.