Somehow, the dull pain in my right tibia has returned.
A visit to a walk-in clinic wherein I tell them the X-rays didn’t show the stress fracture last time and it only popped up on an MRI.
Per insurance requirements, they take an X-ray… which shows… nothing.
Only now can they order an MRI.
First available near me is 12 days away.
There’s one on Saturday an hour away.
So that’s what I’m doing this weekend.
In the meantime, they tell me I have to wear this boot.
Wearing it hurts more than not… the supposed isolation and fit of the depressingly brutalist grey device that feels like it came from the “Spanish Inquisition” line of footwear, causes more pain in my shin than the dull pain I had on my tibia.
I hate this. And I suspect the outcome will be similar to January — a print out of a medical journal, a slap on the back and a “you’ll figure it out” send off.
Dispirited, despondent, and demoralized as my lower leg is supposedly immobilized.
