As of today, I’ve had this cast on my leg for 3 weeks and 2 days. On Monday I’ll go to the doctor, who will take the cast off and check to see if I need another cast or if I’ve healed enough already. He let me know the cost of the cast removal would be 500 pesos…WHAT, 50 bucks just to take off a cast?! Michael helpfully offered to use a saw from work and do it himself, but I declined. And so I’d been mad about it for three days.
Well, that was until last night, when I got tired of feeling yucky and decided to pour some baby powder into my cast. When I pried the cast away from my foot, I swear to Christ a mushroom cloud billowed out. Now I understand that it’s probably only 50 pesos for the doctor to remove the cast and 450 pesos to compensate him for the pain and suffering he’ll endure from smelling my foot.
I was just making tuna salad and spilled a bunch of tuna water on my cast. I can only imagine that is going to push the stink tax even higher. I think Señor Doctor is selling his services too cheaply; it would be a bargain at twice the price.
Hey, enjoy your lunch everyone.
heheh lol..that cracked me up…if it were me; at this point I would try and get it as nasty as possible lol.
I just got a splint, tore some wrist ligaments playing hockey, and it is alredy starting to get a funk about it…I can only imagine a lovely cast in such a climate.
I think you are right…your Dr. is earning the money!
Good luck and i hope you have healed well enough to not require another cast!!
By: bba2 on March 29, 2008
at 3:14 pm
Wow! Time sure flies when it’s not me wearing the cast! When I broke my wrist, the first cast I had went all the way up past my elbow. I couldn’t touch my head for 9 days. Then when they sawed that off and gave me the shorter, sportier version, they didn’t make it tight enough, so when the time came to get it taken off, I just pulled it off and handed it to them.
Fingers crossed that you don’t need another one!
By: Joyce on March 29, 2008
at 5:10 pm
I hope you don’t need another one. Yeah those things stick. Josh had one on his arm once when he got back from some military thing. It stunk soo friggin bad. He’s tried to put his arm around me or on me and I’d push him away. It was so gross. I was very happy when he finally got it off.
By: teetle on March 29, 2008
at 5:53 pm
From this day forward ye shall be known as ‘Stinky Foot Heather’.
By: Vanessa on March 29, 2008
at 9:58 pm
If your doc has a problem with that he should never, ever work in vascular surgery……….. most of the folks we treat have almost no bloodflow in their legs/ feet- resulting in necrosis, ulceration.
Adding to that for some reason our clientele does not think (in most cases) that cutting your toenails or taking care of your feet at all is worth the time. I’ll spare you the details and guarantee that if you let your imagination run WILD you will not be close to the truth.
Every day I have to do ultrasounds on feet- and the one thing I guarantee you is that by the end of my time there in two weeks I’ll have nightmares about giant feet chasing me and a footphobia.
UGH.
By: joana on March 30, 2008
at 2:10 am
Thanks everyone! I wish each of you could be in the room with me when he removes the cast.
Vanessa, I shan’t.
Joana, I love that you brought in a doctor’s perspective, it’s so scientific and it’s so YOU (beautiful and funny). Next time you’re here I’ll let you rub my feet so you don’t miss your patients too much.
By: heatherinparadise on March 30, 2008
at 11:11 am
Hope you have a nice big jug of moisturizer! the dry skin will be soooooo attractive.
By: Bev on March 30, 2008
at 11:24 am
Oh yeah! The stink. I had an arm cast when I broke my pinky and it was stinky, stinky. I imagine a foot would be just that much worse. You know what else will surprise you? How much longer and coarser your hair will grow in that cast. My arm had freakishly long hair when the cast came off. Be prepared, Sasquatch….
By: charmarie221 on March 30, 2008
at 2:07 pm
Yummy! I feel like eating a big smelly Tuna sandwich! Mmmmm mmm good!
Good luck getting the cast off! Yeah you will have some long black hairs. That’s hot!
By: Melissa on March 30, 2008
at 10:45 pm
Thought everyone would like to know that the powder I poured down the cast, well, it mixed with the sweat and created a paste that actually glued my foot to the “sock” that’s on the inside of the cast. It was so bothersome yesterday that I had to stick a butter knife down there to pry the crusty sock away from the sole of my foot.
Michael insisted that I throw that butter knife away.
By: heatherinparadise on March 31, 2008
at 12:24 pm
Bwuh… I just threw up a little in my mouth. Lol. This is precisely why I didn’t go to medical school (uh… it had nothing to do with nearly failing high school Chemistry).
By: mexpat on March 31, 2008
at 6:18 pm
Heather, I’m painfully crossing my fingers for you, I really hope you don’t need a second cast. I just realized today that I still have 3 weeks of this splint. No wonder J has been sitting farther away
By: Mimi on April 1, 2008
at 1:24 am
Yummy!
By: Elizabeth on April 1, 2008
at 3:49 pm
Trust me Heather- I’d rub your feet any time!!!
And in fact- as predicted- I had my first “foot- nightmare” the other day………. no, it was not about a giant foot chasing me through lonely streets- in fact I’ll spare you the details.
Glad to hear that the cast is off by now (just read the blog that you wrote about that)!!!!!! Hope your muscles will be up to par again soon so you can go and kick some butt when required!!
By: Joana on April 2, 2008
at 5:17 am
I found this page looking for help with the stink in my short arm cast. Looks like I’ll just have to deal with it and be glad it’s not July in Texas
I have 9 days left in it… but time can’t go by fast enough!
By: Jeremy on May 25, 2008
at 4:26 pm
Jeremy, how are you doing? Cast off?
By: heatherinparadise on June 6, 2008
at 11:08 am