Real Women, Real Broken Bones (2024!)

 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. 

One day later and 4 days before surgery her view changes. She ventures out in the camper van. Wearing just one of those 2 converse that she was feeling so indestructible in just a couple of weeks ago. 

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. 

Freshly Casted In The Casting Room

Keeping up my streak of posting at least once per year for 18 years :) 

When reality starts to set in. Your leg is broken. You may have a referral to a surgeon. But at the moment you've just been placed in a cast. As its warmth envelopes your broken bone, you're just laying there. In a state of shock. Are you smiling? Are you focused on the process? Are you upset? 

Here's a collection of pics that capture that moment:

2022 Already?

 Where has the time gone... anything interesting happen in 2021? :)

An update on a post from way back in 2013... Almost 9 years ago!

Who remembers this tall beauty learning how to use her crutches before being discharged from the hospital?

Well here is a picture of her 9 years later... the trauma of a broken leg... a distant memory. 

The broken leg was a result of her being hit by a car, her lower leg practically snapped in two, carefully held together under the pink fiberglass. 

Almost 7 weeks later, her full leg cast is removed in preparation for a short leg cast

Almost 9 years later... the leg is healed and her pedicure is fresh

A healthy woman 2 months before.... now being pushed around in a wheelchair. 

9 years later... no signs of a right leg that once could not support her body.

Real Women Real Broken Bones (New Post Dec 2020!)

Hope everyone is keeping well mentally and physically during this bonkers 2020! 

I wanted to share one Real Women Real Broken Bones story before 2020 is up. Hope you all enjoy! 

Our subject is a 20 something English woman. An athlete growing up, she started having knee problems in her early 20's. First a torn knee ligament, which required surgery and rehab. Then there were complications. Her kneecaps were not quite aligned and she had to go through not 1 but 2 additional knee surgeries each with grueling rehab that lasted months. She had her knees fixed separately, so her rehab time was essentially doubled. Coming off 3 knee surgeries in 2 years - she had put on weight and was looking forward to getting back into the grind and getting back in athletic shape. But... in one of her first post-recovery nights out - she was at a night club, dancing and having a good time. When she was accidentally run into, with someone falling on top of her and snapping her left tibia. A combo of bad luck, poor agility from being off her feet and her body being much heavier than it used to be was the perfect recipe for disaster. 

Here's our star with a freshly applied plaster full leg cast. Calling this night the worst pain she has ever felt. Check out the specs of plaster on her toes. She was told she would need a full leg cast for 6 weeks. 

A few days later, she is in her fiberglass full leg cast. 

Notice the tie around the shin of her cast, a DIY way to move her suddenly very heavy leg. 

A better view of her full leg cast. 

Her having a "holy shit my leg is really broken" moment. The pain has disappeared since those first few days. Getting up in the morning, she almost forgot her leg was broken. Until she tried to get out of bed. At this point, things are 100x more difficult to do, and really impacting her life, even though there is so little pain, that she thinks she could just do it all so much faster without the damn cast. 

She tries to make the most of life. Hoping that by the end of her 6-week sentence, this will all be over... 

However, at her 6-week appointment, she gets bad news. Her tibia is not healing nearly as fast they expected, and she needs an additional 4 weeks in a full leg cast, making it a full 10 weeks. This time she opts for black...

On her way to her 10-week appointment. Hoping the black full leg cast will come off! It's here that I'll point out that our star has done a remarkable job of keeping her toes looking great. Fresh polish, exfoliation. 

Good news finally. She was promoted to a short leg cast for another 4-6 weeks! 

She would end her broken leg journey in a boot, followed by more rehab. 

Then having gained almost 60lbs in the 3 years since she first hurt her knee, and having a new appreciation for living an active life, she proceeds to work her tail off to lose almost all of it! Look at that transformation. The left is just after she was released from her boot. WOW! 

And this is our star today, proudly showing off that not only is her broken leg healthy, it's stronger than ever! 

Real Women, Real Broken Bones

Thanks to Nurse Cindy for her encouragement prompting me to post more. Thanks for the kind comments from past readers letting me know how much you appreciated my work!

Not sure how often I'll do this, but my passion is to post some more of the detail behind a "webfind". My posts will usually answer the questions we all wonder when we see a gorgeous woman in a cast -

What happened? 

What was her injury? 

How does she feel about it? 

Is this her first cast? 

How long will she have t wear it?

So, without further ado - let's roll out our next subject. UFC Fighter Jessica-Rose Clark. 

While she was sparring, she snapped some tendons in her ankle. The initial prognosis was - surgery, however after a few days in a boot and a follow up with her orthopedic, she was given some good news. A short leg cast for 6 weeks, and some rehab will get her back to full health quicker than surgery. 

She posted about that new treatment plan - 

Seeing that highlighted line is such a turn on. Isn't it? 

As a new feature... here are a couple of videos of our subject living life to the fullest in her short leg cast. 

What does everyone think? Did you enjoy the post? Anything more you would like to know about this subject?