Today, I'm celebrating one year of retirement. Also, almost one year of recovering from a broken leg, quickly followed by a broken hip. I may never walk correctly again. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, after I retired November 2021, broke my left leg in February 2022, was able to walk unaided around the end of July, broke my left hip in August 2022, physical therapy is now starting. Today. Happy retirement! FML.
Today, I stepped outside my house for the first time in a year, trying to socialize again. I broke my leg. FML
Today, it's been a year since completely breaking a ligament in my ankle. Since then, my feet have gotten increasingly sensitive, walking or standing for longer than ten minutes feels like I'm being stabbed, and lasts long after I sit down. I work retail and they consistently forget to give me my breaks. FML
Today, I got back to work from a 4 month hospital stay and I joked with my boss that after so long away, I’m not planning on being sick again for years. Two hours later, a coworker knocked me down the stairs. A dislocated hip and a broken femur requiring 4-6 weeks of recovery. FML
Today, I broke my fifth bone in three years. While I'd like say that they've all been scary, athletic injuries, most have been from attempting to do things as mundane as walking. FML
Today, the day after saying that I'd never broken a bone, I snapped my fibula in half. FML
Today, I finally got the cast off my leg after being unable to walk for 6 weeks, watching daytime TV or playing my husband's Xbox all day. The second the plaster came off, I tried to stand up, tripped over the doctor's foot and broke the apparently still not fully healed leg again in the same spot. FML
Today, I moved into a new downstairs flat. I promptly fell down said stairs. I have a broken pelvis now and can't walk or go down steps for 3 months. FML
Today, I fell down my backyard steps at my own housewarming party, ended up breaking my ankle, and am now non-weight bearing for 10 weeks. I'm supposed to start a new job tomorrow, where I'm always on my feet. FML
Today, I’m finally getting over a bad accident I had, and I'm allowed to start walking again. Alas, I’ve been flat on my back in a hospital bed for so many months, I’m having to get used to standing upright again. I get so dizzy from standing, I keep falling and hurting myself. FML
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tiptoppc 21
I feel you. 37, and I feel 80. My left leg is permanently disfigured from a skydiving accident which broke Tib, Fib, Femur and Heel resulting in my left foot aiming off left at a -45 Deg Angle. Special orthotics required just to not have pain. Wait till the discs in your back degrade. It’s fun slinging down pain killers to just get through the day. Edit: i was being sarcastic on pain meds. I have to use tramadol constantly just to do anything unless i was to collapse from pain. And for reference, over time the leg effed up my hip as it made it sit in an unatural angle, causing myself to walk with a limp and use a cane. The back issues are just as bad, and together the cause an unholy alliance of misery and torture on anything that requires serious muscle to perform.
Yudith 28
Osteoporosis sucks.
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Yudith 28
Osteoporosis sucks.
tiptoppc 21
I feel you. 37, and I feel 80. My left leg is permanently disfigured from a skydiving accident which broke Tib, Fib, Femur and Heel resulting in my left foot aiming off left at a -45 Deg Angle. Special orthotics required just to not have pain. Wait till the discs in your back degrade. It’s fun slinging down pain killers to just get through the day. Edit: i was being sarcastic on pain meds. I have to use tramadol constantly just to do anything unless i was to collapse from pain. And for reference, over time the leg effed up my hip as it made it sit in an unatural angle, causing myself to walk with a limp and use a cane. The back issues are just as bad, and together the cause an unholy alliance of misery and torture on anything that requires serious muscle to perform.