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Here are pictures of my foot after surgery after falling from a roof painting a house. Needless to say my house painting days are over. I guess I'm lucky though. The Dr. said I should've lost my foot.

I broke my arm too,but that was no biggie. I also included a photo of the house that I fell from.

These pictures are after a year and a half and two surgeries. By the way,the metal devices sticking out of my foot in the previous pictures are called external fixators.

The doctor unscrewed the four rods that were internally attached to bone with no anesthesia. Talk about pain. My foot is about as normal as its gonna be now. Have plenty of titanium metal rods and pins in here. Living with the pain. If the workman's compensation insurance company would settle, it would ease it somewhat. Don't get me started on those bastards.

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Editor's Notes:

I'd say you're even luckier that you didn't lose your life, that's a nice long drop you took.

External fixators are the most painful looking solutions to broken bones available. If there was a commercial for external fixators it would say:

"Sick of forgetting about that devastating injury you have? The answer is finally here! The External Fixator Pro! Now each and every time you move, you'll be reminded through our patented "Pain Notification Therapy" that you fell off a roof! Remember that? Three weeks ago, when you fell off a roof? That's right, you had almost forgotten...but not with the new External Fixator Pro, you'll be reminded again and again about the horrible day in your life when you almost died and had to change careers. Call your doctor now to get the E.F. Pro installed tomorrow!"

Oh well, someday in the bright future we'll have nano machines to carry microscopic buckets of Quick-Crete™ to our broken bones. But what if they go crazy and take over your system? When you go in to the doctor to get a bone spur removed it'll really be a Great Pyramid built by the invisible nano machines that have been living in your heel ever since you fell off the roof. If you show such great disrespect as to tear down their monumental burial pyramid, they might form an alliance with the nano machines that stayed behind when they installed your heart artery stint. And that alliance would all but spell the end of you. Of course, if they kill you, they have to find a new host, so maybe they'll have enough artificial intelligence to live quietly and not build bone spurs.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see how it plays out.

In the meantime, don't start training for that marathon until the insurance company pays off. Don't look now, but they probably have someone outside trying to video tape you doing amazing physical feats on your not-quite-healed ankle.

Glad it healed up somewhat and that you didn't lose your foot or die. If you are the paranoid kind and I freaked you out with the nano machine and videotaping talk, just go see your doctor again and he'll prescribe you some calming medication. Unless the insurance company pays him to get him to prescribe you poison so that they don't have to pay your claim. I heard that it happens sometimes, a nano machine emailed me and told me so.

Sharky

Photos:
Fixator- "The Fixator, this summer at a theatre near you"
Fixator 2- "Rod's Revenge"
Fixator 3- "Attack of the Toes"
Healed- Mostly healed
House- Long way down