My little one is having a hard time....

EhlerDave · Jun 13, 2015

My little girl is having a hard time. She went swimming and hurt her toes and the top of her foot. The job she just started has her on her feet the whole time, she is doing her best to keep it quiet, I can see it wearing her down. She gets a few days off soon, I hope that is enough to get better.

I found this link on a site I spend time, if interested take a listen, just a song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9wamT-bLk8

sh00ter · Jun 14, 2015

Well wishes her way Dave...not sure what kind of injury but there is this cream called Toprocin that really works well for injuries and pain...I helped a lot with my back and several people I know used it for sore joints and such and said it helps them too. I hope she heals and is able to carry on.

EhlerDave · Jun 14, 2015

sh00ter said:
Well wishes her way Dave...not sure what kind of injury but there is this cream called Toprocin that really works well for injuries and pain...I helped a lot with my back and several people I know used it for sore joints and such and said it helps them too. I hope she heals and is able to carry on.

We got her in for an x-ray, a bone in the top of the foot was out of place. A shot to block the nerves and the Dr was able to work it back in place. I am so happy that it went back, the other options would be hard for her to hide.

Right now they are still in town waiting for the block to wear off, the second x-ray looks fine. I am betting it will feel better now.

The sad thing is she has a phobia of Dr's, not scared a true panic. I can see how it happened with all the things she has been through but it makes the idea of even a simple x-ray a trick, then to find a problem wow. The wife said she went nuts, she would rather walk on the foot than have a single shot to get it fixed.

All will be good until the next injury, and sadly that may be before she gets home.

shooter_ · Jun 14, 2015

Hope everything is good! Wishing her a speedy recovery...

clock152 · Jun 14, 2015

EhlerDave said:
We got her in for an x-ray, a bone in the top of the foot was out of place. A shot to block the nerves and the Dr was able to work it back in place. I am so happy that it went back, the other options would be hard for her to hide.

Right now they are still in town waiting for the block to wear off, the second x-ray looks fine. I am betting it will feel better now.

The sad thing is she has a phobia of Dr's, not scared a true panic. I can see how it happened with all the things she has been through but it makes the idea of even a simple x-ray a trick, then to find a problem wow. The wife said she went nuts, she would rather walk on the foot than have a single shot to get it fixed.

All will be good until the next injury, and sadly that may be before she gets home.

to help in speeding up recovery. Do the Hot/Cold treatment a few times a day... plunge the foot in ice water until it is numb and into as hot a bucket of water as you can stand until it feels normal again. then back in the ice then the hot water. For about 30 min. this will get the blood really working in the affected area and take a bunch of the soreness out. Done this many times as a young man with skinny ankles and a love of basketball!.. tended to sprain the crap out of em!

EhlerDave · Jun 14, 2015

clock152 said:
to help in speeding up recovery. Do the Hot/Cold treatment a few times a day... plunge the foot in ice water until it is numb and into as hot a bucket of water as you can stand until it feels normal again. then back in the ice then the hot water. For about 30 min. this will get the blood really working in the affected area and take a bunch of the soreness out. Done this many times as a young man with skinny ankles and a love of basketball!.. tended to sprain the crap out of em!

Thanks for the suggestion.

Please do not take this the wrong way at all. The method you are talking about works on what we call "normies"

The ice part causes our skin severe pain and tightness. It is our messed up skin due to the EDS, (Ehler-Danlos syndrome). Many times with a total dislocation and bruising we get little to no swelling. Most of the time the joints will spontaneously reduce, no need for medical trips unless something is wrong for us. Such as this, she dislocated a knee last b-ball season while cheering. She took her meds and was back on the court for the next game. Now if a "normie" did the same thing it would require a trip to the ER and bracing along with rehab before activities would resume.

The shot has worn off and other than a bruise she looks fine. She is walking as close to normal as ever.

If any of you were to meet her without her braces on, no one would guess the amount of dislocations and subluxations she deals with monthly. She is a trooper for sure. She has been dealing with repeated dislocations since she was 16 months old, she just turned 17. That is the point of the song I linked to on youtube.

My worry is she would walk on that foot rather than admit how much it hurt. We could see how ignoring the pain was wearing her down, she would come home and go to sleep. Sleeping is the best thing for us with this problem. We could see her dropping weight and both eyes looked black. That is the point we must force her to have what ever is hurting looked at, it is not an easy thing.

She will be wearing a pair of boots for a few days, they zip up the side, she uses the boots when she has no choice but to use her ankle brace, she hates the look of them and they are hot, bit with the boots on the braces cant be seen.

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