Fractured bones are hard, especially fractured legs and feet. You can't get out to do what you normally do.
1Watch television, videos, DVDs, YouTube, or online movies.Ad
2Catch up on current events by reading the newspaper, using the internet or watching TV.
3Keep up on your schoolwork.
4Visit your school and see your school mates for a few hours. If you are able, you should go to school normally so you don't have so much make-up work to do.
5Blog the progress of your broken leg for the world to see.
6Write your personal history, memoirs, stories or a novel.
7Take an online class.
8Do upper body workouts.
9Surf the web. Find a fun website, like boredbutton.com or miniclip.com. You could even help edit on wikiHow!
10Call friends and family. Tell them about your injury! Or just call to chat.
11Play video games or board games. Invite a friend over, or recruit a sibling to play.
12Rest. It will help you heal faster.
13Go outside. Get some fresh air. If you have a hammock, use it.
14Learn a new skill. Maybe you always wanted to learn how to crochet, or play poker. There's no time like the present!
15Read. There are plenty of books out there you can read while keeping off your feet.
16Do a puzzle. Broken legs take at least a couple weeks to heal, so you have plenty of time to finish joining those 1000 pieces of kittens you got from your great-aunt!
17If you can get around in the kitchen cook something. If you don't know how, learn!
18Shop, many stores have wheelchairs or scooters for use.
19Have someone take you for a drive.
22Play pool or billiards.
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- Be sure to get enough sleep, you will heal better.
- Get a basket to keep things within reach.
- Don't do anything that will tire you out too much.
- Invite friends and family over and have a get well soon party.
- Eat lots of healthy food, and not so many snack foods or candy and soda.
- If you are displaced from bath and showers in your home due to stairs, then have a friend or family member take you to your local Community Rec Center a few times a week to shower and clean up. Many Rec Centers have Family Dressing Rooms that include nice handicapped-accessible showers with nice molded benches and grab bars, in addition to total privacy. Request using one of these rooms if one is available.
- Use a wheelchair and get people to push you around. Many health plans will rent wheelchairs to patients for a very small nominal fee similar to a co-pay.
- There is no shame in making yourself as comfortable as possible during this period of healing. This might be the time to justify buying that big-screen television if it is in your budget.
- There is nothing to gain by accepting any hardship of any kind if there is a possible solution, including renting what you need to help you and your mobility during this time.
- Do whatever is necessary to make your home wheelchair accessible. Have much of your furniture that gets in the way of your mobility moved to unused parts of your house.
- Have this time to catch up with your favorite music.
- Set goals each day to prevent boredom. For example: go up stairs at least 4 times a day; go out side and read; make a list of movies or new music you would like to see or hear.
- To minimize on housework, use paper plates, cups and disposable plasticware instead of dirtying dishes.
- If you live in a two-story house and cannot easily access the top level, then request a rented adjustable hospital bed be brought into your home through your health plan. It could take six or more weeks to heal, so get comfortable. Sleeping on the sofa is fine for a week or two, but healing a broken bone takes many weeks to months.
- Rent or buy an over-the-bed rolling table where you can work on a laptop, eat or store a drink and the remote control to your television.
- Keep your spirits up, be happy and smile.
- Some things you might like to learn are knitting, crocheting, cross-stitching, sketching, painting, poker, an instrument, or a foreign language!
- Do exercises with your leg if you are able, and go for walks around the house.
- Make sure you follow your doctors recommendations.
- Ask a doctor before walking on that leg.
- Use care with crutches or a walker, don't fall!
- For the first week after the injury, during this post-traumatic period of pain, do not attempt to use crutches if swinging the broken leg causes pain or if you are unstable managing the crutches. Use a wheelchair until you feel comfortable and safe using crutches.
- If you go up or down stairs it is a good idea to have someone with you.
- If your stairs are long or otherwise a challenge for you, seriously consider staying put in a safe area that minimizes or eliminate climbing stairs altogether until your leg heals. Falling down the stairs with an already broken legs only makes a bad situation much, much worse. Ask yourself if climbing or descending the stairs is really worth the risk and level-of-effort.
- Make sure you go for walks every hour if you are able, so you don't get blood clots.
Categories: Bone Fracture Healing and Treatment
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