In late Feb. they gave me a removable cast -- it's got a metal bottom and lots of velcro straps, so I can take it off in the house. And scratch if I need to! The x-ray still shows a broken bone. However...I talked to a young man in his early 20s who broke his fibula last summer and can't remember how (he was out drinking with frat brothers) so that makes me feel better, that it's not just decrepitude that did this. I'm going to be flying next week, so the airline has ordered me a wheelchair. But I used to walk 40 several times a week, and lift weights and do yoga, and have had none of that, so am turning into a blob.
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