Hi I’m wondering how long I would have to stay in hospital if I have to have surgery for broken ankle. I’m hoping it might have been repairing naturally .
Fell 2 metres off ladder I can imagine raised eyebrows!
I’ve been told recovery is 6 weeks once come out.
Feel so stupid and angry at myself with so much chaux work to do and the weather is perfect at moment. Plus I should have been in uk this week:weary:
It may depend whether you have someone at home to help. If so they will only want you to stay in for a night or so after the op to check all’s well. And that you can manage crutches. The rest of the recovery will be at home and with a physio.
They’ll want you out of hospital as soon as possible, probably no more than a couple of days. It’s the healing and physiotherapy that comes after that takes the time.
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That’s good want to be out as soon as possible. Someone at home for & days then no one for 14 but may be able to stay with friends for part if the 14 days.
Someone at home for 8 days
I’ve hired a wheelchair for the time since it happened makes easier except for the steps , I was given crutches can manage those ok .
Thats good but please buy a work platfom, scaffold tower, ladders are only for easy short term tasks.
Extra vitamin C can help the healing process. All the best for a speedy recovery.
Get well soon!!
Corona, I have all those, it was just a freak thing with a stone . I’d been up in 3 different places already making sure ladder was stable & safe.
4th time did same went up help a stone on wall no problem , going down held same stone came away , down I went.
No room to roll , if I’d worn my working boots, if I hadn’t bothered to do the 5 mins tiding job , if, if……….,
Thanks for vitamin C tip.
Yes been in a similar position myself but thankfully not broken anything. Its the shortcuts that are the dangers. Hurt my back years ago as I let the young lad working for me who would have been footing the ladder do something else but it was only a little job…
I second the vitamin C tablets, healed my feet very quickly and kept the colds at bay too! They cost very little from the chemist so you don’t need an ordnance.
A lot of hospitals/clinics here will not release you unless you have somone staying with you and also note that whoever collects you will most likely have to make themselves known to the staff for the release paper. I had to have someone stay even for cataract surgery and then for the feet.
I had to go to Urgences again today as the swelling was extreme& unbearable in the initial ‘half’ plaster cast was given a boot.
However they took more X-rays and said there was no movement on the break and doubted I would need surgery🤞.
This will be confirmed or not when see the specialist . So for now I’m hopeful and taking vit C along with the pain killers that I only need at night.
Vitamin e will help healing.
I’ll add Vit E to the shopping list thank you .
Thank you to everyone for your comments , Survive France is such a nice helpful forum !
Surgery such as Open Reduction and Internal Fixation (ORIF) would only usually be used when either the bone is unstable, which fortunately your’s appears not to be, or the fracture runs through in to the joint line and risks wearing the cartilage in the long term if not perfectly aligned. Generally the French have a more pro-active surgical approach to fracture fixation than in the UK. This is based on talking to my brother in law who did a trauma fellowship in Grenoble and personal experience having done my tib and fib at an Orthopaedic conference in Val d’Isère (though my speciality is plumbing) and spending a couple of days watching what they did to the others in Bourg St Maurice!
Unless you have a significantly deficient diet there is honestly no good scientific evidence that extra vitamins are of proven benefit in wound healing. The only vitamin that we can be commonly low in is usually D due reduced levels of sun exposure at this time of year and that has some role in prevention of Covid.
Whereabouts in Wales are you from? Duw but it is hard to pick up an accent on line.
Thank you for your full comment. Cardiff half Welsh . 
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Cyncoed/Radyr or Splott?!
Splott 