Oh, let’s see: This started in August of 2006 – a hot month – and now we have another potential fracture. Not a totally shattered one such as in the beginning, but maybe a hairline one somewhere in the area where mashed up bone was used to fuse the ankle in 2008. Or it could be some of the hardware shifting. Who knows.

This is a picture following the first surgery:

And here it is between casts:

Dr. Warrener categorized it with a soft voice and a slight shake of his head as “an unfortunate injury”. Yes, Robert got no lucky breaks in this break. That is my pun, not the doctor’s, but that is probably obvious.
Robert isn’t real forthcoming about his pain level and so, after three days of leg talk, I was taken aback when he told the doctor it was excruciating when he put weight on it.
So, rest, pain control and a visit down to the orthopedic surgeon – glad I bought, instead of rented, the roll-a-bout. Ours has got a lot of duct tape on in now after intermittent uses for years – maybe Summer and I will get creative with colored duct tape. Oh, yeah, I can see it now.
Ack, having visualized possible creations, I think maybe we should stick with grey. Or not.