{"id":4944,"date":"2011-10-24T20:17:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T03:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2011-10-24T20:17:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T03:17:59","slug":"calcaneus-stress-fracture-8-months-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2011\/10\/24\/calcaneus-stress-fracture-8-months-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Calcaneus stress fracture, 8 months and counting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How is it possible to be stupid enough to hobble around with a heel stress fracture for 8 months and keep fooling oneself into thinking it&#8217;s something else?<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you&#8217;re me it&#8217;s entirely possible. As I mentioned on Oct. 11\/11 in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2011\/10\/11\/still-hobbling-along\/\">Still hobbling along&#8230;<\/a>, I had a bone scan &#8230;and even to my untrained eye, it was obvious that there were all sorts of problems. Today, I finally had a follow-up with the GP I&#8217;ve been seeing (yeah, I know&#8230; takes a while, doesn&#8217;t it?), and she explained the thing.<\/p>\n<p>I have not just a stress fracture in my third metatarsal &#8211; that&#8217;s the problem that sent me to the clinic in the first place &#8211; but also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.footphysicians.com\/footankleinfo\/fractures_calcaneus.htm\">stress fracture in my heel (calcaneus) bone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s so incredibly frustrating is &#8211; or rather, <strong>are<\/strong> &#8211; these facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>my heel has been painful to walk on since at least February; I assumed it was a stupid case of plantar&#8217;s fasciitis (although there was no physical reason for me to think I could have developed a case of this, and of course I didn&#8217;t &#8211; but talk about fooling oneself into thinking it&#8217;s something it&#8217;s not&#8230;), and so I ignored ignored ignored the pain;<\/li>\n<li>I should have been in an air-cast weeks ago when I first went to the walk-in clinic on 9\/28: instead, the doctor assumed it was&#8230; meh, something else, something that didn&#8217;t require immobilizing the foot &#8211; and the upshot is that I missed about 4 weeks of treatment (I&#8217;m now advised to acquire an air-cast asap);<\/li>\n<li>I may be moving out of my house on Nov.28 (if a current offer doesn&#8217;t fall apart), and I am NOT looking forward to moving when my foot isn&#8217;t healed (but I&#8217;ll have to).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Man, I&#8217;m ticked off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Calcaneus_Fracture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 8px solid white\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/e8\/Calcaneus_Fracture.jpg\/800px-Calcaneus_Fracture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I feel like I have done nothing but fool myself about my whole existence in Victoria, and aside from healing this heel, I better look after my own interests lest I explode from sheer frustration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is it possible to be stupid enough to hobble around with a heel stress fracture for 8 months and keep fooling oneself into thinking it&#8217;s something else? Well, if you&#8217;re me it&#8217;s entirely possible. As I mentioned on Oct. 11\/11 in Still hobbling along&#8230;, I had a bone scan &#8230;and even to my untrained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[31182],"class_list":["post-4944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-calcaneus_stress_fracture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4947,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions\/4947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}