Since Justin's ankle injury only got worse since Thursday, with major swelling and internal bleeding, we decided this is much worse than a regular sprain. He can't do anything but lie down and keep his foot elevated, or else his ankle gave him extreme pain. So finally I took him to an urgent care center, and after about 3 hours and too many phone calls to claims department, insurance reps, doctors, two stores to find a car charger for my phone because we were expecting calls on it but it was running out of batteries and my only charger is a house charger but it was in Sandy in our car because Andria's car died so she took ours to work, and lots of frustration, we got nothing. Nothing except the knowledge that the care Justin should have gotten he didn't get and couldn't get it.
Later, the urgent care doctor called back and asked Justin to come in for a splint. The splint he got in the ER was the exact wrong kind for his injury, but this new one is much better, covers his whole foot and goes up his leg a bit. Finally, he can walk with crutches, still putting no weight on his bad leg, but at least he can move around.
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Oh, Justin, so sorry to hear about your ankle. It sounds like my fracture/sprain that took 10 weeks before I could put weight on it. Don't let any idiot tell you to go ahead and walk on it--and I wish I could give you my canadian crutches but I think they are only for short people. Good luck! I sympathize!
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