Hawkins type 3 talus fracture, post-op
Hey all! Just discovered this subreddit, figured I'd share my own personal photos.
My first and only decent injury (13yrs ago).
I was doing some tree maintenance on my property and ended up falling 20-25 feet (by firefighter and paramedics estimation) straight down and landed on my right foot.
After regaining my composer (knocked the wind out of me something fierce) I figured I atleast should get back in the house, got myself up and started walking. After making it 5 or so feet, I knew something wasn't right and I laid back down. Thats where I discovered my right foot was bent sideways and about 90* to the left.
I felt fine most of the time, even joking with the medics the whole time (one even asked if they could take pictures and document everything for a class they teach) but I knew something was up when I noticed we were headed to a different hospital than the one 5-7min from my house.
ER got me cleaned up and set my foot back into position. Thats when everything went from a quick weekend inconvenience (still no real pain at that point) to learning that I possibly may lose my foot depending how bad it was in there.
Thats the gist of it (ask away, lots of details I left out) The Xray was 2+- weeks post op and about 7 months before I was allowed to put weight on it.