flights

I saw an orthopedic specialist yesterday. He basically confirmed that I have a fractured talus – “a classic snowboarding injury.” In fact, I just read that this injury is sometimes called “snowboarder’s ankle.”

Mine is a small fracture though, and the doctor basically said it’s an injury that takes a relatively long time to heal. He didn’t have my MRI scans – only the report – so he couldn’t make a definitive recommendation, but he suggested a course of… nothing.

He said my best option is just to do the things I want to do and bear the pain as best I can. Surgery is an option, but he recommended I wait 6-8 more weeks. If I don’t feel significant progress in that time, he said, then I should go under the knife.

This is a little discouraging, especially now that spring is coming, and the hiking trails are calling.