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notjustair · Nov 19, 2015

I went to the sale Monday and bought 35 head of replacement heifers. Tuesday night I was moving things to get the bulls ready to move with their new ladies. I stumbled in the mud and tried to put my boot through a post.

It kept getting worse and more swollen so I went to the doctor today. It appears that I shattered the bone in my big toe and shoved the splintered piece over the other bone. I wondered why it was shorter and it crunched when I pulled it back straight. He put me on crutches with a boot and said under no circumstances is that foot to touch the ground until the orthopedic surgeon sees it.

I told him it was calving season, piglet season, and the rainy season. I also have a pen full of heifers to work. He said well you aren't doing it. After he left the nurse said that he had grown up on a farm and if I needed to, just get it into a boot and be easy on it.

There's just never a good time for surgery or to be off your feet. At least I finished harvest on Sunday.

K Effective · Nov 19, 2015

NJA-
I know your pain and agree there is no good time for this, HOWEVER, if you repair the damage now, healing will begin sooner and other damage will be reduced. Listen to the vet, get it fixed asap. In the long run, you'll function better. BTDT. Try to find two people to replace yourself- so you can go out there with both of them and give instructions and keep them safe while working with your animals. It might just be the best thing that ever happened for you!

ShadetreeRet · Nov 19, 2015

Kinda reminds me of a song by Tom T. Hall called, "Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs?" When you farm, especially8 raising animals, there is no provision for "down time", as you mentioned, never a good time for surgery or to be off your feet, but do be careful or you can mess it up for life.

S2710 · Nov 19, 2015

afew years ago I smashed my heal. I had the surgery and the doc put a cast on it and told me not to put any weight on it. I did what he told me but when I went back tne cast was dirty and he blew a gasket. He chewed me a new one and told me if the cast wasn't as clean when I come back as it is now he would not give me a walking cast. I left his office and stoped at the local drug store and bought the longest ace bandage that they had an wraped the cast in that. When I went back for my checkup I took the bandage off in the car in the parking lot, and he seen the clean cast an was as happy as a hog in a mud puddle. Do what you have to and keep the doc happy.

Bob

Dick2 · Nov 20, 2015

Got friends? Put the word out, maybe someone will come and help. My nephew had major complex surgery last summer to remove a tumor from his sinus. He was only half way through harvest. Cousins and a couple neighbor finished the harvest. Cattle were away on summer pasture, but friends and relatives showed up with 9 ATV's to round up the cattle and drive them 7 miles back to the farm for the winter.

Don't discount people; they will often step in when they see a need.

TGIN · Nov 20, 2015

Good friend cut his leg with chainsaw and nicked the bone. That is another story. Doc told him to stay off of it. He is a professional fence builder and thought he had to be out there with the crew. The bone broke and he has been in a wheelchair all summer, just now getting around on a walker some. He wishes he did what the doc said.

Dick2 · Nov 20, 2015

First thing this morning one of my crowns came off. Will be at the dentist when they open this morning. What with leukemia treatments, heart rhythm going off (Afib)and having pneumonia in the last couple of months, a crown coming off doesn't seem so bad. It doesn't hurt; I think that is one that has a root canal. Will see what the dentist can do for me.

farmerwithmutt · Nov 20, 2015

Follow the docs advice as best you can i messed up on ice and did a little damage to an ankle and was to be on crutches for a while and milking with crutches wasn't going to work . Now I have an ankle that gives out at embarrassing time's it's hard to explain when you're picking yourself off the floor. But I understand when I had my shoulder done and down to one arm I was in trouble all the time I learned to be careful what I said I can well remember the earful I got when the therapist asked me how I was getting on with one arm and I said it was a little hard running the chainsaw she didn't swear but I think she wanted to

showcrop · Nov 20, 2015

(reply to post at 19:34:55 11/19/15)

Back before tractors I was on motorcycles and broke a bone in my foot. I got a cast on it, then in order to ride my bike off road I just took the liner out of my snowmobile (pak) boot.

dhermesc · Nov 20, 2015

My younger brother was moving cattle with his 4 wheeler when his bull whipped around and charged him sending him and the 4 wheeler flying. Got up and flipped it back on its wheels and finished the job but his knee was causing him no end of pain. Never went to the doctor until 3 years later - he had torn up his ACL. Still hasn't gotten it repaired because there just isn't time to have it done - let alone be on crutches for months.

L.Fure · Nov 20, 2015

When you don't follow doctors orders, and try to hide it from them, you are only cheating yourself. I did this for years and am now pretty well crippled and on disability at the age of 57.

Billy NY · Nov 20, 2015

I've shattered one too, about the same way, in mud, rubber boots on, but it was a stack of lumber mine ran into. I don't think it was displaced like yours. Doc said you'll have arthritis in that toe. To be honest, I can't recall which one it was now. It kind of hurt awhile, swelled, turned black and blue something awful. Luckily I had a second chance to try this again, while on vacation, not as bad, still turned black and blue, maybe just jammed, not shattered. I was able to keep working without much trouble both times, but was protective of it just the same. Hopefully the follow up with the orthopedic is a good one. I was always led to believe not much can be done with these. The foot sure is one complicated part of the anatomy that is of high value. Doc was partly right though, the arthritis just went to both ankle joints instead! I'd be very careful if on it, its worth it to get something like that healed right.

coshoo · Nov 20, 2015

I got a new ACL awhile back- outpatient procedure, walked to the car. Was on crutches for 2 days. 4 incisions: 3 were just dots, and the "big" one was less than an inch long. They don't lay you open from stem to gudgeon like they used to.

old popper · Nov 20, 2015

When I had my right shoulder repaired, the therapist asked how I was getting along. I told her I had to buy a battery operated weed eater because I couldn't pull the rope hard enough to start the gas one. She blew a gasket and used words that I had only heard in the packinghouse before.

L.Fure · Nov 20, 2015

(quoted from post at 17:17:07 11/20/15) When I had my right shoulder repaired, the therapist asked how I was getting along. I told her I had to buy a battery operated weed eater because I couldn't pull the rope hard enough to start the gas one. She blew a gasket and used words that I had only heard in the packinghouse before.

People in the medical field take their jobs seriously. What they should ask the patient before they ever start working with them is whether or not you plan on behaving yourself during recuperation. If not, both party's could save themselves a lot of time.

keh · Nov 20, 2015

Broke big toe by dropping a piece of steel on it. Hurt that night, out of work next day went to doc, he said it was a clean break, no cast. He had me take laces out of shoe so there would be no pressure on the toe. It improved rapidly and I have had no arthritis. I was considerably tounger then.

KEH

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