TIFU by jumping off a 5 ft stage and breaking my heel
TIFU because I (46M) decided to go work at my local haunted house and while getting scares, I decided to jump off of a stage(I’ve done this many times before) and landed awkwardly breaking my heel aka calcaneus fracture. Luckily no displacement. This stage is 5 ft off the ground. I had to be rushed to the Emergency Room and have X-rays taken. All the nurses either got a kick out of my all white contacts or were a little disturbed by them. Ultimately they were great and were very friendly.
I cannot bear any weight, unfortunately so I won’t be walking for a little while, but a knee scooter is on the way so that I can hopefully get back to moving around.
I also was lucky enough to take the next week of work off before this happened, however it is a 4-6 week healing period and I will be out of work unless I can figure something else out. Hoping for short term disability. I do have a doc note for work saying no work for 2 weeks and then light duty only.
TLDR jumped from a high point and broke my heel.