Real Women, Real Broken Bones (2024!)

 My 19th year of at least 1 post on this blog! Happy 2024!!!

Today we travel to South Africa to meet our star. A yoga enthusiast, who tried to skateboard. She ended up with a tib/fib fracture, a long leg cast before surgery, and then a short leg cast after surgery. 

Let's start with these 2 pics of her in April just days before her injury. 

Not a care in the world. Little does she know that just 3 days after taking a picture of her gorgeous legs in Converse... that she would attempt to skateboard and end up with her left leg folding under her on a fall. 

She hopes that it's not bad... but the swelling and the sound that she heard when it happened tells a different story. 

Skip ahead 6 days... she is stuck in a plaster full leg cast. Toes exposed, up high on the leg to prevent any damage before surgery. But surgery is still 13 more days away!

3 days later and our normally active, high-energy patient is stuck in the same position, with some company. 

6 days after that and still 5 days away from surgical repair... she is in the same position. Nice glimpse of her health leg in the top right corner of the image. 

One day later and 4 days before surgery her view changes. She ventures out in the camper van. Wearing just one of those 2 converse that she was feeling so indestructible in just a couple of weeks ago. 

The prognosis after surgery is 8-10 more weeks in a short leg cast. Here she is 12 days after having her fractured bones repaired with hardware. Still confined to the same position. 

19 days after that, almost exactly 1 month after her surgery she is placed in a new plaster short leg cast for 6 more weeks. By the time her cast is finally removed, she will have spent almost 3 full months in a cast. All for a bad decision to try a skateboard. 

Here she is almost 5 months after her leg snapped under her body, 2 months after having the case removed... her once broken leg is still noticeably skinnier from the loss of muscle while it was immobilized. 

Freshly Casted In The Casting Room

Keeping up my streak of posting at least once per year for 18 years :) 

When reality starts to set in. Your leg is broken. You may have a referral to a surgeon. But at the moment you've just been placed in a cast. As its warmth envelopes your broken bone, you're just laying there. In a state of shock. Are you smiling? Are you focused on the process? Are you upset? 

Here's a collection of pics that capture that moment:

2022 Already?

 Where has the time gone... anything interesting happen in 2021? :)

An update on a post from way back in 2013... Almost 9 years ago!

Who remembers this tall beauty learning how to use her crutches before being discharged from the hospital?

Well here is a picture of her 9 years later... the trauma of a broken leg... a distant memory. 

The broken leg was a result of her being hit by a car, her lower leg practically snapped in two, carefully held together under the pink fiberglass. 

Almost 7 weeks later, her full leg cast is removed in preparation for a short leg cast

Almost 9 years later... the leg is healed and her pedicure is fresh

A healthy woman 2 months before.... now being pushed around in a wheelchair. 

9 years later... no signs of a right leg that once could not support her body.