Legs and I have a lot in common right now.

[bug_n_flock]

I broke my foot the other day. So now I and this budgie are each in a brace. Yaaay.


This is my first broken bone, and my first splay leg chick. Crutches(which this is my first time on) and muddy barnyards don't mix, so I am essentially housebound for now. This suits Legs just fine though, as I should be holding him in order to assist in the correction of his splay leg anyway. Ooh, or maybe we should call him/her "Crutches". Hmm.



We have decided that even if this treatment is 100% successful and Legs/Crutches ends up with totally normal legs, we will still keep him/her forever. We are just too attached to him/her to consider selling her/him.





Unfortunately the broken foot interfered with my trip back to Maryland, so Alex is still staying with my mom. My brother may fly here for a visit next week, and we will try to get my mom to drive here soon and bring Mr. Alex face. But it's nice now that we have 100% decided even if she fully recovers that we are keeping Crutches/Legs, I have a pet bird to keep me company while I mostly just kind of hang out on the couch with my foot up. Other than her, the only pet birds here(the breeder budgies are not tame pets, and the other babies are not staying here most likely) were George(rooster) and Nibbler(duck hen), who are both barnyard pets and live outdoors.

 

[Jen5200]

Aw, so nice that you’ve decided to keep her, she’ll make good company! Sorry that you are both in splints and braces.

 

[EllenD]

I'm sorry you and Legs are both laid-up right now, trust me, as someone who has broken many bones and had 6 different Orthopedic surgeries total (all sports injuries in high-schools and college), I sympathize completely...And crutches suck the big one!!! At least you'll build-up your upperbody by using them. Make sure to pad both of the tops of the crutches that sit in your armpits with towels wrapped around them and then secure them with safety pins if you need to use them to go anywhere for any length of time or distance, and the same goes for the part you hold with your hands. If you don't pad them both and you walk any distance or for any length of time, you'll get blisters on your hands and rub-burns on the skin in your armpits, and they are worse than the broken bone is, lol. Little Pro-Tip for ya...

 

[bug_n_flock]

Glad Legs doesn't have an xray like this'un. Yikes! Dr says no weight on it and keep it elevated for 4 weeks, but due to several factors including my age and being healthy, he thinks we can wait and see how it does before deciding on surgery. Said it is borderline on needing surgery, and was impressed that it didn't/doesn't hurt.

Legs and I both are "non weight bearing" until further notice. Her mom is sitting on more eggs, so when I am not holding Legs, she can be in the nest and momma is still more than willing to puke in her mouth(eew), so I don't have to worry about her not being fed. I don't want her on the cage bottom grate, I feel like that will just lead to injuries and potentially her having an xray similar to mine if she's not careful. So no hanging out on cage floor grate for her.

 

[GaleriaGila]

Oh, DANNNNNNG!

Well, I foresee a happy ending, in any event!

Y'all take care and GET WELL!

 

[EllenD]

Yeah, that hurts, lol...I have one where my my foot and lower leg look like Frankenstein with all the metal in them...I broke my Tibia and my Fibula, and the Fibula came through the skin...It happened during Softball practice when I was only 15 and a Freshman in High-School...I did it on a Thursday night and they operated the following Monday...A plate, 8 screws, and 2 pins with fixators...It sucked. But I'm glad they did it because they said if they hadn't have done it I would have horrible arthritis by the age of 30...As of now at 39 my ankle/leg/foot is fine except for the permanent nerve damage from the surgery, I have no feeling down the outside of my lower leg, up the top of my foot, or across the front of my shin because the surgeon cut through numerous lines of nerves...That was in 1994 though, lol, so surgery now is far more advanced and the recovery is nothing now...I was in rehab and then sports rehab for a year, it was awful...But I still feel like had they just set the bones, sewn it up, and casted/splinted it I wouldn't be able to run, bike, or even walk well now due to arthritis...So I'm glad they did it now (I was NOT back then at all, lol...I missed my entire Freshman year of Varsity Softball and Soccer, I was not a happy person that year!)

Good luck to you, hopefully you'll be able to make an informed decision about surgery along with yoru doctors...Things are much more advanced now, so like I said, your recovery time would be nothing now compared to back then after surgery...

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

Yeah, that hurts, lol...I have one where my my foot and lower leg look like Frankenstein with all the metal in them...I broke my Tibia and my Fibula, and the Fibula came through the skin...It happened during Softball practice when I was only 15 and a Freshman in High-School...I did it on a Thursday night and they operated the following Monday...A plate, 8 screws, and 2 pins with fixators...It sucked. But I'm glad they did it because they said if they hadn't have done it I would have horrible arthritis by the age of 30...As of now at 39 my ankle/leg/foot is fine except for the permanent nerve damage from the surgery, I have no feeling down the outside of my lower leg, up the top of my foot, or across the front of my shin because the surgeon cut through numerous lines of nerves...That was in 1994 though, lol, so surgery now is far more advanced and the recovery is nothing now...I was in rehab and then sports rehab for a year, it was awful...But I still feel like had they just set the bones, sewn it up, and casted/splinted it I wouldn't be able to run, bike, or even walk well now due to arthritis...So I'm glad they did it now (I was NOT back then at all, lol...I missed my entire Freshman year of Varsity Softball and Soccer, I was not a happy person that year!)

Good luck to you, hopefully you'll be able to make an informed decision about surgery along with yoru doctors...Things are much more advanced now, so like I said, your recovery time would be nothing now compared to back then after surgery...

I'm with Ellen here..back in 2006 a !@#$(*& WOMAN turned left directly in front of me while I was on my motorcycle and I hit her doing approx. 35-40mph I was in my late 40's at the time and diabetic. A double compound fracture of my left leg. Tibia/Fibia with a couple rods,pins,a plate and a couple screws. Took me almost a YEAR to be able to get back to work! I was driving Big Rigs and it being my "clutch" foot/leg made it impossible to drive.
Your lucky to be young and healthy! You and Budgie have some bonding time now


Jim

 

[EllenD]

Yeah, that hurts, lol...I have one where my my foot and lower leg look like Frankenstein with all the metal in them...I broke my Tibia and my Fibula, and the Fibula came through the skin...It happened during Softball practice when I was only 15 and a Freshman in High-School...I did it on a Thursday night and they operated the following Monday...A plate, 8 screws, and 2 pins with fixators...It sucked. But I'm glad they did it because they said if they hadn't have done it I would have horrible arthritis by the age of 30...As of now at 39 my ankle/leg/foot is fine except for the permanent nerve damage from the surgery, I have no feeling down the outside of my lower leg, up the top of my foot, or across the front of my shin because the surgeon cut through numerous lines of nerves...That was in 1994 though, lol, so surgery now is far more advanced and the recovery is nothing now...I was in rehab and then sports rehab for a year, it was awful...But I still feel like had they just set the bones, sewn it up, and casted/splinted it I wouldn't be able to run, bike, or even walk well now due to arthritis...So I'm glad they did it now (I was NOT back then at all, lol...I missed my entire Freshman year of Varsity Softball and Soccer, I was not a happy person that year!)

Good luck to you, hopefully you'll be able to make an informed decision about surgery along with yoru doctors...Things are much more advanced now, so like I said, your recovery time would be nothing now compared to back then after surgery...

I'm with Ellen here..back in 2006 a !@#$(*& WOMAN turned left directly in front of me while I was on my motorcycle and I hit her doing approx. 35-40mph I was in my late 40's at the time and diabetic. A double compound fracture of my left leg. Tibia/Fibia with a couple rods,pins,a plate and a couple screws. Took me almost a YEAR to be able to get back to work! I was driving Big Rigs and it being my "clutch" foot/leg made it impossible to drive.
Your lucky to be young and healthy! You and Budgie have some bonding time now


Jim

Jim, we've got matching Frankensteined-Legs!!!!

Whenever I'm asked what the most pain I've ever felt in my life was, I always say "After I woke-up from the surgery on my leg where they put all the hardware inside of it"...I was only 15 when I had it done, but I clearly remember the pain, that bone-pain is a unique type of pain, and when they drill/saw/cut into your bones it's a special kind of hell for about the next 24 hours after you wake up...And that also includes a total open-abdominal Hysterectomy where I had 33 staples going from hip bone to hip bone...Nothing compares to the amount of pain I was in from having my leg rebuilt with metal...But this was done in 1994, and I actually saw my Orthopedic surgeon "reving-up" his Black and Decker power drill while they were wheeling me into the OR, lol...No joke, they were wheeling me into the operating room, and I looked to my right and there was my surgeon testing his drill...I heard it and saw it, and my first thought was "That's the same drill that Pap has in his workshop!"...Well, that was my last thought before I was out...

I'm sure that Orthopedic surgical procedures, as well as the types of appliances they use have improved drastically since 1994, lol...Now everything is so much less-invasive, and the recovery times are a fraction of what they were back then...And I also had the same injury as Jim had, an Open, Compound Tib-Fib Fracture, so that's another ball game...