Dealing with a Jones Fracture

So I had my appointment today and was told to keep wearing the boot for two more weeks, then they set me up with another appointment for in four weeks. I'm hoping that's the last one I need. I've been walking and putting weight on my foot for the last two weeks, and as long as it's in the boot it's not too bad, other than the heel needing padding that will last more than a day or two. I need to get some nicer insoles or something. Maybe my heel would stop getting sore so much with that. The blister that was on the back of my heel from the cast is pretty much gone, so the sore heel is from putting weight on it. Occasionally at home I walk around barefoot a bit, but I always put the boot on for going to work and other places. I started back at work a couple days after I started walking on my foot again, and the boot keeps it protected and supported while I'm dealing with kids all the time. I've even been able to pick up and carry kids around at work thanks t...

It's been a bit over two weeks since my last appointment, so I'm allowed to start putting weight on my foot now, when in the boot and/or on crutches. I'm glad to see that even though I just started putting weight on my foot this week, as long as I'm wearing the boot and a shoe that has roughly the same height of heel, I can hobble around okay without crutches. It will still take some time to get back to normal walking and activity, but at least there's decent progress. My foot has been somewhat sore the last few days, probably because I've gone about four weeks without walking on it and suddenly I'm using it again. I've been trying to limit how much I walk for now so I don't do too much at once, and resting and elevating it when I can. I've got another appointment in two weeks, so we'll see what the doctor says then. I'm hoping with how much mobility I'm regaining that I won't have to worry about going to physical therapy. I...

Technically it's been a bit over two weeks since my break, but just under two weeks since the surgery. I had my follow-up appointment today and got the cast off. So now I'm in a boot again, but since I broke the fourth metatarsal as well as the fifth, they decided to have me go two more weeks without putting weight on my foot. After that, they said I can gradually start putting weight on it. I have another appointment in four weeks. We'll see how it's looking then. At one point after writing my last update I couldn't stand the cast digging into my heel constantly, so we cut it open to add some extra padding and then wrapped it back up. Technically it was a splint and not a cast, so only the back half was hardened. The rest was just padding and it was all wrapped up in elastic bandages, so once we had adjusted it we just held the edges together and wrapped it back up. That little bit of extra padding made a huge difference in how much pressure there was on that spo...

Here's a story about breaking my foot. We went to a trampoline park and it was a blast, at least until I managed to break my foot. The ironic thing about how I broke it is that it wasn't while I was doing flips over the wipeout bar or anything like that. I was just fine doing that. Instead, I did a small jump into a roll onto a platform, like I had done a minute before, and heard a couple cracks and got sharp pain. I sat on the platform for a bit while everyone played freeze tag, and eventually managed to limp over to the main floor before my husband carried me over to sit down with ice on it. My one-year-old niece managed to step on it at one point, and let me tell you, that probably hurt more than the initial injury. Definitely cried at that point. I was carried around out to the car and my sister-in-law drove it home(right foot broke, so driving myself wasn't going to happen).  I ended up having to go to work for a couple hours the next morning, but luckily it was dur...