I had a weird thing happen to me July 9. I stepped off a curb, just your ordinary sidewalk curb, down off it into an asphalt lot (newly paved this spring). Everything perfectly smooth, maybe a very slight downward aspect to the asphalt. Walk the same place twice every day to and from work.
I stepped off the curb. I have only a freeze frame in my mind of one leg straight, the other not, and seeing my friend slightly in front of me. She says that she heard me say, Oh sh*), and she turned to see me going down. She, as a good nurse would do, got behind me and assisted me down, she says very vehemently that she "did NOT let (me) fall!"
I know my hips, back, nothing else hit hit the ground, just my butt and of course my legs, but she caught me and I was a sitting position as my memory of this returns.
I grabbed my lower right leg and the tibia was OBVIOUSLY broken, not through the skin, but by golly another quarter of an inch and it would have poked through.
An ambulance came, I had compartment syndrome going on while I was still sitting in the parking lot. They x-rayed me and eventually a dr came and oh thank God he knocked me out and pulled the bone back in place.
Twenty four hours later I had surgery on the leg. My muscles/tendons/ligaments on the inside of my leg had all ripped loose as well. The surgeon told my husband it was a "massive repair."
I am now non weight bearing for two months. Then PT for at least a month before I can walk/drive alone.
My question is this: I only stepped down. I did hit the ground. I do not have osteporosis, in fact the surgeon told me I had "good dense bone, hard to get the pins through". Is there anything other than "just a freak accident" that could cause my ankle to explode???
This is a question that is annoying me.
I am NOT asking for medical advice, as I have plenty of good doctors, just wondering if anybody had heard of anyone else's ankle or other joint just "exploding" - bone breaking severely with muslce/tendon damage?
