dislocated my foot on monday

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snapped my right foot to an almost perfect ninety degree angle towards my left foot and dislocated the Talis bone while playing basketball at the YMCA. During the ambulance ride to the ER all i could think of was how desperate my situation would have been if i had been out hiking alone or even with a friend and suffered the same type of injury. i have a survival manual that gives instruction on how to make crude splints and wraps but i'm here to tell you that it would take one tough s.o.b to reduce a dislocation without anesthesia. the paramedics administered 4mg of morphine on the gym floor, i got another 8mg in the ER and 4mg of Dilaudid and it didn't even come close to touching the pain, only after i was put under and the the bone reduced did the pain begin to subside. my point i guess is that this sucked real bad but it could have been worse.
 
Prayin for you and I hope you get better. Thank God you weren't out; could've been a nasty situation. Good to hear your ok though.
 
Good luck on getting healed up man.

I tore every ligament in my ankle after misjudging steps coming out of my house (think of stepping directly on your ankle with all your weight) and then walked it off. Bad move. When my wife woke me up I was on the way to the hospital.

Feinting sucks.

But it harkened back to when we were on our first date. It was a punk show in Reno and I was drunk when I got hit in the face with a punch, next thing I now I am at the bar and my friends are staring at my hand...turns out my thumb and index fingers are dislocated; with my hand pointing straight they are pointing back at me.
That sucked.
 
Hope this makes you feel a little better:

A friend (internet type friend named John) was out cross country skiing in a New England wilderness area on a pretty remote trail on Sunday (2/11). Another friend (internet type friend named Bill) sends me a private message on Tuesday (2/13) saying that he was supposed to go skiing with him but they decided that they could not make it work so they started in different places. Low and behold they pass each other heading in opposite directions on the trail. Hellos and other pleasantries are exchanged and they proceed on their way. Come Tuesday after sending several emails he sends me the PM indicating that he doesn’t want to start a panic or anything but he knows that John doesn’t have any family and is worried that he has received no reply to any communications since seeing him on the trail Sunday and that blizzard is on the way. Long story short after screwing around a while longer trying to get a hold of John the decision is made and Bill calls the Forest service to have them check to see if Johns car is still at the trailhead. Bill finds out that he is in the hospital. After he talked with Bill, John continued skiing and had to go around a blow down. In the process he must have had his ski go under a branch and the rest of him over the top. He broke the head of his femur and the distal portion of his femur as well as his wrist. John said he knew something wasn’t right when he went to lift his leg and the thigh went up but the knee stayed on the ground. Luckily, John is pretty savvy and had a little luck. He said he could not even move enough to get his back pack off. Fortunately he had a GPS and a cell phone with coverage so he was able to tell the rescuers exactly where he was and someone also came across him and helped him until the rescue crew could get there. Even the trip out was a disaster. They used a snowmobile and sled to get him out and I was told that the snowmobile flipped on its side and the two rescuers couldn’t right it. They had to wait until two others got there to right the snowmobile.

So yeah, soloing does have disadvantages. We have been told that John’s fever, after the surgery has broken and they said they thought he would be home yesterday or today. He still hasn’t gotten online so we are waiting. I dread to think what would have happened if we had not figured out what was going on until Tuesday. Like I said he has no local relatives so I am not sure who would have known that he was overdue.

I have changed names and been pretty non specific on location because I don't know if he wants this spoken about. I suspect he will talk about it on the other forum at length and if does I'll post a link.

KR
 
Good luck with that ankle, Hill... !

I was out in the mountain alone today. Went past some pretty steep ground on the trail. Very rocky, 60° or so angle. The trail narrowed a bit. Went up and down boulders. Lots of small loose rocks on the trail that made it slippery. I went up fine with a small adrenalin rush.

On the way back (same place), I was tired, I knew I had made it through once, to I relaxed my attention a little. Well my cargo pocket caught in a boxwood branch. I turned around to free myself up, and at the same time the pocket cracked. I got unbalanced, regained my balance too quickly, and started to slip down off trail. I had the time to grab a boulder with both arms so I slid about 2-3 feet down, not much more. I climbed back up, looked down at the steep slope, had a look at how long the descent could have been... and kept on walking, but very deliberately...

I was playing the "now don't do anything stupid" mantra in my head.

Being alone/remote means being twice as careful as normal.

Cheers !

David
 
Great googly moogly, I feel for you. I've been really lucky in my life, no broken bones or anything despite numerous close calls and tumbles, including being launched off my 15-speed by a dingbat in a Neon... how humiliating. I blacked out for a second, next thing I knew I was on my feet confuzzled as all hell and she was burning rubber in reverse away from me. Apparently I got up and threw the bike at her car. Rage/fear/whatever kicked in, I guess. Weird how fast you can react without thinking when the adrenaline kicks in.

You're right though, that would have REALLY been bad out in the woods alone... glad you're OK and stay off that foot!
 
Hard to believe you did not break any bones.:eek: The talus is not an easy bone to dislocate without breaking the ankle or tearing a bunch of ligaments!

I hope you are OK. Sounds like they gave you a lot of pain meds:thumbup:

Find a good foot and ankle specialist and make sure nothing else is wrong.

Good Luck
 
Ouch, good luck with that foot, I know how bad that can be.

My mom had pretty much the same thing happen to her as The Chef, stepped out our front door where there are two steps, misjudged the step and twisted both of her feet. Tore all kinds of tendons and ligaments, may have fractured a couple bones in one foot. It took me and my dad both to haul her back into the house, we had to sit her in a kitchen chair and pick the chair up and into the house, and she was stuck sleeping on the pull-out sofa for three weeks, because she couldn't get into her bed. Seeing as my dad is blind, I had to do all the cooking and cleaning for awhile. Let me tell you, a sixteen year old guy having to cook for three people for three weeks is a pain. (My mom also hurt her jaw somehow when she fell, so all she could eat for the first week or so was scrambled eggs, and she is incredibly picky about her eggs.) After three weeks, she was able to get around in a wheel chair. That was a year and a half ago, and it took about a year for her to get back up to par, able to walk or even drive for any length of time.

Anyway, sorry to ramble on, I really hope that foot heals quick, and does so the way it should. :)
 
Really Hope you Heal up soon. I have never had it happen to me but as a responder in a college town I have seen many sports injuries. Best of luck to you

and remember my motto "The More Phine the better":D
 
thanks to everyone for all the get well wishes and stories to read, been at my gf's for the weekend (no internet ). Hog Feet, I actually do have some chipped bones floatin around in there but the Dr said they weren't hurting anything so he would leave them alone. He also said that this was the first time that he had seen a dislocated talus.
 
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