My 19th year of at least 1 post on this blog! Happy 2024!!!
Today we travel to South Africa to meet our star. A yoga enthusiast, who tried to skateboard. She ended up with a tib/fib fracture, a long leg cast before surgery, and then a short leg cast after surgery.
Let's start with these 2 pics of her in April just days before her injury.
Not a care in the world. Little does she know that just 3 days after taking a picture of her gorgeous legs in Converse... that she would attempt to skateboard and end up with her left leg folding under her on a fall.
She hopes that it's not bad... but the swelling and the sound that she heard when it happened tells a different story.
Skip ahead 6 days... she is stuck in a plaster full leg cast. Toes exposed, up high on the leg to prevent any damage before surgery. But surgery is still 13 more days away!
3 days later and our normally active, high-energy patient is stuck in the same position, with some company.
6 days after that and still 5 days away from surgical repair... she is in the same position. Nice glimpse of her health leg in the top right corner of the image.
The prognosis after surgery is 8-10 more weeks in a short leg cast. Here she is 12 days after having her fractured bones repaired with hardware. Still confined to the same position.
19 days after that, almost exactly 1 month after her surgery she is placed in a new plaster short leg cast for 6 more weeks. By the time her cast is finally removed, she will have spent almost 3 full months in a cast. All for a bad decision to try a skateboard.
Here she is almost 5 months after her leg snapped under her body, 2 months after having the case removed... her once broken leg is still noticeably skinnier from the loss of muscle while it was immobilized.
