Here is a picture of the "superman air" that broke my ankle
while surfing south jetty. In this shot I am already on the way down.
Right when I landed I heard and felt a snap in my leg. I paddled straight
in. When I got to the beach I tried to walk but I instantly collapsed.
Since I was on the south side of the jetty I had to crawl up the rocks
to the north side. At this point my foot was flopping around at the
break from the weight of gravity. Lucky for me Joel Mayer was there
(the guy that took this picture) because he helped me hop along the
beach and he got a couple other guys to help carry me to my truck. I
went to the emergency room at tri-city hospital. To my surprise, I was
not in the waiting room very long. They took ex-rays of my right ankle
and then gave me a shot of demorall in my hip. The doctor said I had
a clean break in my fibula but there was something he saw in my ex-ray
that he did not like. Because of this, he called the orthopedic who
was "on call" that day at the hospital. The orthopedic told
me there some separation in my joint that did not look good and he wanted
to schedule an appointment to see me in a few days when the swelling
goes down. Then they wrapped my ankle in a splint, gave me a prescription
for vicodin and sent me home. This was on tuesday, march 29th 2005.
On friday the 1st of april I went to see the orthopedic...
I ended up needing
surgery which didn't happen until April 11th, 2005...they put a metal
plate and 7 screws in my fibula. This is an exray from 5 months after
surgery.
7
Band-Aids down 3 to go...
About 2 months after surgery I was able
to start puting a little weight on my right side with the help of this
boot
Here is a picture of the "superman air" that broke my ankle
while surfing south jetty. In this shot I am already on the way down.
Right when I landed I heard and felt a snap in my leg. I paddled straight
in. When I got to the beach I tried to walk but I instantly collapsed.
Since I was on the south side of the jetty I had to crawl up the rocks
to the north side. At this point my foot was flopping around at the
break from the weight of gravity. Lucky for me Joel Mayer was there
(the guy that took this picture) because he helped me hop along the
beach and he got a couple other guys to help carry me to my truck. I
went to the emergency room at tri-city hospital. To my surprise, I was
not in the waiting room very long. They took ex-rays of my right ankle
and then gave me a shot of demorall in my hip. The doctor said I had
a clean break in my fibula but there was something he saw in my ex-ray
that he did not like. Because of this, he called the orthopedic who
was "on call" that day at the hospital. The orthopedic told
me there some separation in my joint that did not look good and he wanted
to schedule an appointment to see me in a few days when the swelling
goes down. Then they wrapped my ankle in a splint, gave me a prescription
for vicodin and sent me home. This was on tuesday, march 29th 2005.
On friday the 1st of april I went to see the orthopedic...
I ended up needing
surgery which didn't happen until April 11th, 2005...they put a metal
plate and 7 screws in my fibula. This is an exray from 5 months after
surgery. 
7
Band-Aids down 3 to go... 
About 2 months after surgery I was able
to start puting a little weight on my right side with the help of this
boot