DO NOT READ if you are squeamish.

So you know last Thursday night I broke my big toe and the long bone in the top of my foot. On Friday morning, the ortho wrapped it and gave me a rigid shoe thing and told me to stay off it.

Since then, I have been taking baths instead of showers to keep it dry. He showed me carefully how to wrap it, but we all know it is never the same when you wrap it yourself, and so I just haven't unwrapped it. I know I know I know. No lectures, OK?

So this morning after my bath I was curious about whether it was still really bruised looking, and kind of stretched the wrap to look under there. IT'S GREEN!!! Not bruised green - green green green. Gray-green. And it smells wierd. Not dirty-footy smell - I don't even know how to describe it. Eggish maybe. That can't be good can it? The skin wasn't broken at all so I don't think it can be infected.

So I stuck a sock and the shoe back on it for now. Think I need to try and go back to the doctor?

BGG born 4/25/05 at 31w1d




New baby girl born 9/19/06

I would call the doctor. That doesn't sound normal. You don't want to let it go and need to visit the emergency room on a holiday weekend. It would be much better to see the doctor today just in case.

Lori

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You may want to wash it and check if it is just the bandages that are smelly. Otherwise you need to call the Doc. If it is Gangrene it is nothing to mess with.

Susan

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Megan, I sincerely hope your DH is back and you´re not still dealing with this all on your own!!! About your foot, my first thought was that you were probably growing something inside the wrap...maybe it got damp during your bath (I know you´re being careful, but it can still happen), and since you hadn´t unwrapped it, it´s a perfect place for mold to grow. Is your foot and your toes warm? On your uninjured foot, put your fingers on the top of your foot and try to find your pulse...it should be on the top of your foot, on the bone right about at the highest part of your arch, before it curves in to your ankle. (I hope that makes sense). Once you find the pulse on your good foot, try to find it on your injured foot. If your injured foot is warm and has an equal pulse to your uninjured foot, you´re probably just dealing with the effects of having a wrapped foot for several days. If your foot is cold and you can´t find a pulse, do not pass go, do not collect $200 and do not spring clean your house before heading to the ER. I don´t think you´ll have to do that run again, tho, but please do let us know SOON how you´re doing. Hang in there!

Dionne
Happily married to Juan Carlos and
mother of:
Gabriela 4 lb
Laura 3 lb 15 oz
Katalina 3 lb 12 oz
Born January 28, 2006 at 34 wks

The smell--well that's kinda to be expected. The color sounds like the bruising is improving. You know how old bruises are yellow? Really bad bruises can turn green on its way to yellow. The best and easiest measurement of circulation in a splinted or casted extremity is the color, sensation, movement, and warmth of the extremity below the injury. So your toes should be warm, pink or bruised, have sensation to touch (may be decreased or tingly), and mobile (even with pain). Scary signs would be cold, pale, "dead" toes, and rarely red, hot ones.

Aloha,
Kelli
BBB 6/4/06 @ 29wks 4 days
GG 4/30/09

I hope you went in. That could be gangrene. Tell us you had it checked out.

Michele
Sarah, Gregory, Amanda
born 1/22/04 at 35w1d

Our surprise baby Austin born 06/15/2005

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Oh my. Megan, how is your foot? I guess it must be better if we're on to being concerned about gray hair now...

Let's see: (1) murdered reindeer; (2) busted foot; (3) found gray hair...

Okay. I think you're safe. That was 3 wasn't it? Oh wait, if we count the stuff with your mother telling you that you have problem children because there are too many of them, then you may be cycling again...

sorry.
I intended to be helpful and uplifting.
oops.

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Caidan, Carina and Caeleigh
Born at 31 weeks, 1/8/04.
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Sorry so slow to update - we went to my parents' house and I couldn't get onto the internet b/c my dad encrypted his network but couldn't come up with the password.

I feel like such an idiot even telling you what it was. I unwrapped the bandage, and found that despite my best efforts to keep it dry, somehow I must have gotten the little clips that hold the bandage damp. (Clips sort of like the ones on an ace bandage). You know how cheap metal jewelry turns green? Yep, that's what it was! Corroding clips. Smelled strange and staining my skin green.

OK, is everybody laughing at my stupidity now? I feel like such a dork that I came here before thoroughly checking it out. Sorry!

BGG born 4/25/05 at 31w1d




New baby girl born 9/19/06

I'm just glad it wasn't a big problem. I've been wondering how you are since Wednesday. Does your foot feel any better overall?

Lori

http://yesidohavemyhandsfull.blogspot.com/

Actually it seems like it hurts more now than it did before. I have been trying to stay off it, and I borrowed crutches from my mom to make it easier to stay off, so hopefully it will get better soon!

The doctor wouldn't give me crutches because he said I needed to be off it 100% of the time, and crutches would "tempt me" to be up and around. Like I can just lay around eating bon-bons and watching TV for weeks on end.

BGG born 4/25/05 at 31w1d




New baby girl born 9/19/06

Dontcha' just love a man who thinks that by withholding crutches he will keep an HOM mom couch-bound?? ROTFLMBO!!

Cat w/3 Kittens
Caidan, Carina and Caeleigh
Born at 31 weeks, 1/8/04.
It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. In memory of Carina, who was greatly loved.

http://b3.lilypie.com/bDA