It’s Friday and I’m bagged. Week 21. The DryCast
Posted: 18/06/2010 Filed under: health, Knitting, Uncategorized | Tags: bags, Chris, Knitting 1 CommentAuthor: Chris
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Two weeks ago today I rolled my ankle, and with nothing to hold onto, I fell. I fell hard and broke my right ankle. It happened suddenly and remains a blur.
The doctor in the emergency room said it was a clean break though I would be on crutches for 2 months. He put a plaster splint on my leg that was heavy, awkward and kept me immobile at my parents’ home. I had this monstrosity for 5 days while the swelling went down. A lot of knitting happened in those 5 days; so much knitting that my mother kindly went back to my apartment to get more yarn for me. My home is almost an hour from her home and the yarn was her only reason for going, just in case my mother’s sainthood was in question.
At the fracture clinic later that week, I got my fiberglass cast. Apparently they don’t make white casts anymore so mine is orange. I could have had soccer balls but I’m not that big a fan, World Cup or not.
I had a lot of questions for the doctor at the fracture clinic. As a single girl, how was I supposed to survive at home on crutches for 2 months? It isn’t really going to be 2 months, is it? Driving was out of the question, right? (I knew the answer to this one but sometimes I like things to be reinforced.) How was I supposed to shower?
The night before I broke my ankle, I was giving my almost 5 year old niece a bath. While I was washing her hair, I said “one day when I’m rich I’m going to have someone wash my hair for me every day”. My mother washing it in the kitchen sink isn’t exactly what I had in mind.
I didn’t get all the questions answered to my liking though I did get told I could purchase a watertight bag for my cast so I could shower. The DryCast Waterproof Cover is pretty simple but it has made me feel so much better about the next 6 weeks. I’m back at home and feeling less dependent on others, even though Jacqueline is driving me to work every day and the girls in the office are fetching water for me.
It isn’t exactly how I’d planned to spend my summer. I’ll be well ahead of my Christmas knitting by the time it’s over, though.
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Just a little tip about the cast bag, my cast was high lighter pink, wear a sock over the cast, I put a hole in mine from the fiberglass. Patched it with bicycle tire kit, after all those bags are expensive. Feel better and the highlighter orange will help, the white fiberglass white always looked really dirty. Many casts on this body of mine, this is how I know.