Specifically the left outside cheek muscle(nah, ain’t looking up the scientific name)
I’ve been humping around on a broken foot for, let’s see, 6 weeks or so.
I’ve been admonished several times to walk as normally as I can by the PT folks.
Guess what, PT folks, I don’t know your actual education/training level (these are not the Dr. PT, but the people out on the floor meant to put you thru your paces.) so shut up. Can’t walk normally with a broken foot.
Further caveat, they hate me. I’m a complainer, a whiner, not stoic or brave. Don’t care about your juvenile points system hanging on the wall. I’ll tell on you at the drop of a hat. You won’t be smiling when I’m done for the day.
I’m not usually so hateful. Pain does this to me.
I get a different person Everytime I go. I’m beginning to think they’re in the break room drawing straws when they see my name on today’s appointment list.
Dang it. It hurts. They re-broke my foot the first time I went. So I have reason not to trust these people.
I’ve been written up as non-compliant the whole time. My Ortho called me on it.
Ok. Fair enough. I’ve told on them too.
Anyway, now my butt hurts. I can’t ask PT tomorrow because I quit Friday. I fired them.
Well, I’ve done that a few times. Ivy always made me return.
But this time I’m not going back. There’s a little item of a torture device that will never come near my person again.
I have to see the Ortho doctor this week. That’s a few days with a sore left butt.
I told Ivy. She said, “well, you can go to PT tomorrow and ask them, smirkingly”
I swear she’s next on the chopping block. Gah!!
Guess I’ll take Ibuprofen and sit right-sided. So un-natural. My chair is made for left cheekers.
My sympathies. But a sore butt cheek isn’t that serious to worry about.
I would be happy if that was my only physical problem.
Heres hoping you don’t stay butthurt.
As far as walking normally, you should try to walk as close to normally without pain. That may mean not walking normally at all. Try a different stride length(shorter than normal). You may have to take very small steps. Are you doing any icing?
Can you do non-weight bearing movements without pain?
Have you tried a crutch or a cane?
My crutch is the god awful offset boot. It takes the weight of the front of my foot. So basically I’m on my heel in it. My big toe provides some balance.
In the house I have a strap that criss crosses across my instep. Big toe still does her job
Actually my big toe hurts me too, come to think of it.
I prop my foot up when I’m sitting. When I sit, well another part of my anatomy hurts.
My only choice might be amputation. Wonder which one I’ll choose.
Don’t put your foot up, it’s likely overstretching the injury. Don’t be coy, what other part of your anatomy is hurting? PM if you don’t want to speak about it in public.
Do they have you doing any kind of mobility work?
ETA: Do you know how you injured your butt?
I still have the boot I wore many years ago, I tried it on and felt strain in my back. Is this the kind of boot you have?
Have you told the doctor or therapist that it’s hurting you?
What I think you should do is some mild mobility work.
Start with these:
Seated Piriformis Stretch
Lying Figure-Four Stretch
Seated Figure-Four Stretch (only if you can do this comfortably)
Lying Knee to Chest
Only do these to the point of very mild discomfort at most.
That was my first boot. My foot is so narrow it couldn’t fit right.
I’ll try the stretches.
I am up and walking. Just looks odd and feels unsteady. I need to face-plant like I need another sore foot. So I’m very cautious. Walking only on my drive which is smooth and flat. And I’m slow.
I hope I’m getting some good from that. I wanna stride out and go but I don’t dare yet.
Just be sure you’re gentle, you’re not looking to stretch so much as maintain mobility and increase circulation through the injury. If you have a tear or strain, the healing tissues are very fragile.
The consensus is it was still newly knitted together, a small probably fragile bone anyway.
I was put in the apparatus that rolls your arch. I don’t know why they thought it was good idea. I kinda was afraid it was not right.
Just my own massaging of my arch felt wrong. I felt things moving in there. I have jacked up dancers feet so I talked my self into believing I was being paranoid about it and surely the professionals know best.
Next morning I knew it was re-broken. I never knew my narrow foot could swell that big. Very alarming and painful.
Back to the Ortho doctor and it was reduced again. I won’t describe how excruciating that was.
After that, the Ortho doc and the PT doc got on the same page and my stabilizing needs were addressed and my care was rethought about.
Until this past Friday and they decided I was gonna be strapped in this pedalling while sitting equipment. Wouldn’t have been so bad til I saw where the straps would cross my instep. Exactly over where the break was.
The pedalling thing was not powered by me. It was electric. It had a dial. The therapist had a remote control in her hand.
Well, I balked. With noise.
I told them goodbye. (Not very nicely).
I don’t think they intend to hurt me. I think the messages aren’t getting to everyone. I’m sure it’s my fault. It’s always my fault, somehow.
That and I look like I’m ok-ish. On the surface.
I must have lots of stuff to spare and I do not.
Therapy, medication, anything: you have the right to decline. If an exercise is demonstrated, or a pill is handed to you, you can say, “I am declining that.”
In addition, if a pill is handed to you, you have the right to inquire, “What is this?”
(If you want to hear snotty attitude from me, tell me “It’s something your doctor ordered for you.” My standard answer to that is “How nice. What is it?”)
Wouldn’t it be fun to get the two of us doing PT together?
That’s the only thing I worry about is my insurance.
I’m fairly certain this order for PT was to provide me comfort, pain relief and to get me ambulatory quicker.
As I’m not a paid athlete perfection in my healing wasn’t necessary.
I’m not gonna stay where pain is caused. I can wait it out, relatively pain free.
Well, til my butt hurts…that is.
I had dialysis this morning. I left my phones home. It was accidental. I swear.
Ate Tacos after dialysis and drove home.
I have a few messages from the Rehab place and 2 from the Ortho doctor’s office.
Ain’t returning them. Yet.
It’s too close to nap time.
