Broken

For the past 4 months I have been dealing with a broken bone in my foot, and  I have no amazingly interesting story to explain it either. It tried a running regime after the new year as part of a resolution, and then wore a heel to work for the first time in a year and the culmination produced a fractured sesamoid bone in my foot.

You have 2 sesamoids in each foot, as you can see from the first picture, they are side by side.


















This is not my xray, but this is exactly what my xray looks like. The bump on the left is a sesamoid bone, and the 2 piece bone on the right is the fractured sesamoid bone. 

So now I get to wear a lovely walking cast for the next 4-8 weeks. Good times.It's amazing how such a small part of your body can produce such pain and discomfort.








I have been meaning to put this xray on for a while now, this is Violets xray from her broken arm.  When she initially broke her arm it did not look like this. It was straighter, not so angular. But sometime in the first 3 weeks she was wearing her first cast, the swelling went down and the cast didn't prevent her from moving her wrist and the bone slipped.  It still looks like this, but the new bone growth is coming in straight. As the doctor put it, her bodies DNA knows what it is supposed to be, so it is growing back correctly. Now we just have to hope that as her arm bone elongates with age, the body will either absorb the bone that sticking out or it will just thicken and grow straight. She has age on her side.

Our bodies are pretty amazing.