5.28.2006

A picture is worth a thousand words


























So, here's two thousand words worth.

That's my left leg, see the break just above the ankle? It apparently broke sometime during mile 7 yesterday.

The doctors didn't believe it when they saw it. It seemed to be a simple sprain when I hobbled into the ER today. The nurse and the doc all thought, "eh, I'm sure it's a sprain. The fact that you could run on it is a good sign."

When the X-Rays came back there was a great deal of hubbub. Docs and nurses alike were chatting about "the guy who ran 10 miles on a broken leg". To be clear, it was really only about 3.5 miles. I'm pretty sure that twang of pain in mile 7 was the bone breaking.

Up next: 4-6 weeks of a cast.