Sunday Nick came home with a swollen and apparently sprained ankle. But that's just the tip of the story. Let's begin at the beginning.
The geology class instructor didn't arrange for vehicles in time to borrow state ones. So he volunteered to put gas in Nick's jeep if he (that is Nick) would drive. Nick agreed so Sunday morning at 5:30 am he drives down to the campus to pick up some of his classmates. They all drive out to Gray's River, gather up their gear and begin the hike out to the field area. It's a fairly nice day and they're only part way in when they encounter a log. First the log takes out the professor, dumping him on his face. Next the vindictive log takes out Nick, wrenching his ankle badly and painfully. Well, a classmate happens to be an EMT and happens to have an elastic bandage with him, so he wraps up Nick's foot. Nick, brave, pain tolerant man that he is turns around and hikes back to the Jeep with the assistance of a couple of large sticks. It's too bad they didn't toss the log into the river, it certainly deserved it. This was still early in the morning, maybe 9:00 or 9:30.
Unfortunately, there were no plans made to be stuck in a Jeep for the day. Nick did not bring homework, book, headphones for mp3 player or anything. Apparently he spent the day alternately soaking his foot in the river (40 degrees, so that was smart), watching the clouds and horses or napping. I think we can say that he definitely caught up on his rest. He returned home around 10:30.
Since he could put weight on the foot and still move his toes, I just thought it was a bad sprain too. At work the next day one of my colleagues suggested that since we have health insurance an x-ray wouldn't be a bad idea.
Nope, it wasn't a bad idea at all. I was so surprised when the doctor wheeled Nick out into the urgent care waiting room. With strict instructions not to put weight on it. The doctor had put a wrapped cast and splint on the foot and told us to go see an Orthopedist. We also needed to get crutches so off I drove to Albertsons, one of the few places open at that time in the evening. That was Monday night.
Today was the first opening with the Orthopedist. He gave Nick a walking boot cast and basically said to take it easy and let it heal. We're supposed to come back in a couple of weeks to check for ligament damage.
Wow, lots can happen over one weekend.
After later
Jenny
1 comment:
Nan said it turned out to broken. Did he break it in the exact same spot I broke mine last year? I broke off part of my tibia... the big inside nub off the bottom. It was the same for me, I kept skating, could wiggle my toes, etc.
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