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OUCH, GWS!
How I Broke My Ankle...
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BigGee
Senior Member
- Location
- North East London
Thats bad luck Andrew, unfortunately the old adage that it is never difficult to fall off your bike still hold true.
On the slightly more positive side the fibula as you so rightly said is the non weight bearing leg bone and so consequently is one of the better bones in your body to break, especially below the waist. I broke the same bone after being knocked over the handlebars by a hit and run driver many years ago and I was getting back to normal after six weeks or so. Hopefully you will be back up and running before to long as well.
I am sure it feels annoying and sore at the moment but the main thing is that you have come away with all other faculties intact. Bones will heel and you'll be back on the bike in no time.
GWS
On the slightly more positive side the fibula as you so rightly said is the non weight bearing leg bone and so consequently is one of the better bones in your body to break, especially below the waist. I broke the same bone after being knocked over the handlebars by a hit and run driver many years ago and I was getting back to normal after six weeks or so. Hopefully you will be back up and running before to long as well.
I am sure it feels annoying and sore at the moment but the main thing is that you have come away with all other faculties intact. Bones will heel and you'll be back on the bike in no time.
GWS
Flying Dodo
It'll soon be summer
You clearly thought everything was going so well, in not being left behind somewhere on the road to Swansea this year.
I hope you've got some good drugs, and at least there's still another 10 days of the TdF for you to watch.
GWS.
I hope you've got some good drugs, and at least there's still another 10 days of the TdF for you to watch.
GWS.
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
Get well soon Andrew. Nice of the neighbour and driver to help out.
I remember many years ago seeing a chap, having a clipless moment, fall sideways onto the road when he stopped. I went out to help and to look after his bike while he went to A&E. He fractured his hip and it was a long time before he was riding again.
With a ruptured Achillie's Tendon and broken toe I can sympathise with your time off the bike.
I remember many years ago seeing a chap, having a clipless moment, fall sideways onto the road when he stopped. I went out to help and to look after his bike while he went to A&E. He fractured his hip and it was a long time before he was riding again.
With a ruptured Achillie's Tendon and broken toe I can sympathise with your time off the bike.
MacB
Lover of things that come in 3's
- Location
- Farnborough, Hampshire
sorry about that Andrew, speedy recovery mate
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
Get well soon Andrew.
derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
Ouch, Hope you recover quickly.
Mice
Guru
So sorry to read this. Wishing you a very, very speedy recovery.
Mice
Mice
smokeysmoo
Legendary Member
- Location
- Bolton, not very far from Nob End
GWS. I did my ankle a few years ago in an MTB 'incident' Bloody hurts doesn't it? 
Hope everything fettles OK and you're back in the saddle soon enough
Hope everything fettles OK and you're back in the saddle soon enough
clivedb
Guru
- Location
- Milton Keynes
Sorry to hear about your accident, Andrew - hope you can get back on the bike soon!
OP
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Wobblers
Euthermic
- Location
- Minkowski Space
Thank you. It's difficult to understate how uplifting your support is when you're stuck on your own unable to get anywhere.
I don't know what caused the off - I had noticed some diesel/oil earlier, but not there. It was raining, but I've tackled that road before in wet conditions without incident. I probably just misjudged things and turned to avoid a bump a little too sharply.But I didn't have the opportunity (or inclination!) to conduct a forensic examination of the road surface at the time...
According to the doctor, I've broken the tip of the fibula at the ankle - but he was muttering something about the talus, the bone underneath "not looking quite normal". I've to go back tomorrow for more investigations once the swelling's gone down. Wish me luck!
Ruptured Achillie's, Night Train? Ouch, that's nasty. How did that happen? And heal quickly!
I don't know what caused the off - I had noticed some diesel/oil earlier, but not there. It was raining, but I've tackled that road before in wet conditions without incident. I probably just misjudged things and turned to avoid a bump a little too sharply.But I didn't have the opportunity (or inclination!) to conduct a forensic examination of the road surface at the time...
According to the doctor, I've broken the tip of the fibula at the ankle - but he was muttering something about the talus, the bone underneath "not looking quite normal". I've to go back tomorrow for more investigations once the swelling's gone down. Wish me luck!
Get well soon Andrew. Nice of the neighbour and driver to help out.
I remember many years ago seeing a chap, having a clipless moment, fall sideways onto the road when he stopped. I went out to help and to look after his bike while he went to A&E. He fractured his hip and it was a long time before he was riding again.
With a ruptured Achillie's Tendon and broken toe I can sympathise with your time off the bike.
Ruptured Achillie's, Night Train? Ouch, that's nasty. How did that happen? And heal quickly!
Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
Cheers.
It was not on a bike.
I had spent a couple of weeks lifting heavy coping stones for a wall I was rebuilding, putting a cut up car onto a trailer to scrap, and loading big logs for fire wood to deliver to a friend.
Then, one evening, the tendon went POP while walking up the stairs.
Following advice from the good folks at YACF (NHS Direct was busy) I went to A&E and got plastered up for the night. The next morning I was properly inspected and plastered up again. I then fell over, when the crutches slipped in the rain, when I got home and broke my toe on the same leg.
I am now in a Beckham boot until mid August and then physio. It could be the end of the year before I am back to near full strength. It will never be 100% though due to the location of the rupture. Not sure when I will be able to walk unaided, never mind ride, again but hopefully before we get into the depths of winter.
OP
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Wobblers
Euthermic
- Location
- Minkowski Space
Cheers.
It was not on a bike.
I had spent a couple of weeks lifting heavy coping stones for a wall I was rebuilding, putting a cut up car onto a trailer to scrap, and loading big logs for fire wood to deliver to a friend.
Then, one evening, the tendon went POP while walking up the stairs.
Following advice from the good folks at YACF (NHS Direct was busy) I went to A&E and got plastered up for the night. The next morning I was properly inspected and plastered up again. I then fell over, when the crutches slipped in the rain, when I got home and broke my toe on the same leg.
I am now in a Beckham boot until mid August and then physio. It could be the end of the year before I am back to near full strength. It will never be 100% though due to the location of the rupture. Not sure when I will be able to walk unaided, never mind ride, again but hopefully before we get into the depths of winter.
You don't do things by half, NT!
Tendons are damn slow things at healing,aren't they?
