My moms foot is screwed. It's been over a year since she messed it up. April 17th 2008 to be exact.
From what I gather, she stepped off a stair, and twisted her right ankle, it popped loudly, and in less than 20 minutes it was swollen to more than twice it's normal size.
She has no insurance, but she went to the doctor, and they say she tore 2 ligaments in her ankle. The 2 that look like this /0\ where 0 is the ankle bone. They said they could do surgery, but it'd be costly, might as well let it heal itself. They gave her a cast, and sent her on her way.
Once that cast came off, they put another on. Once that cast came off, it got a little better. She doesn't want to stay off of it, so she got to walking some. But the pain became too much to bear, so she went back to the doctor, and they put A THIRD cast on her foot. This time they put it on differently, put her foot up like an "L" where as they just let her foot hang on the previous 2 casts. The doctors don't give her anything for pain, and she cries nearly every day while my dad works all day to get money to pay for pills from junkies, so she doesn't hurt as bad. She's depressed and has gained weight in the year of inactivity.
Her toes aren't right, they twitch, and lift up. She cant move her foot, and now her left foot hurts more then the right. She cant walk, and spends all her time sitting. It's now to the point that she almost cant make it to the bathroom, cant shower, cant do much.
I feel helpless and need some help or advice. Anything would help, I've run out of ideas.
Thank you. |
