Originally Posted By Jays
Argh David....it must be the season! I slipped and broke tib and fib just above the ankle on a walk out on Sunday with the dog. Ended up being helicoptered to hospital. Told I'll be lucky to drive by 4 months!


So sorry to hear that, Jays. How horrible. I did something very similar a couple of years ago, thankfully just far enough up the leg that it could be fixed with an intramedullary nail rather than a plastercast, so I was back driving (albeit in a borrowed car with an auto box) in less than 4 weeks, rather than 4 months. It still makes getting through airports interesting, though!

You have my greatest sympathy, and best wishes for the long, tedious and painful course of physio rehab that will inevitably follow frown

PS on edit: If yours is nailed rather than externally fixed, I can strongly advise not googling the procedure, at least not clicking on the video links that result. Fascinating, in a dispassionate mechanical-engineering kind of way, but a seriously brutal surgical procedure!

Last edited by Oakvillian; 30/12/14 03:37 PM.

Doug
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