Getting that cast off = YAY!
Swelling is down, bruising is reduced, and incision points are healing nicely:
The x-ray must have shown a need for another week of immobility though because the doc put him back in a cast instead of the planned boot. It's a "bi-valve" cast (put on normally, then sawed in half and reattached with velcro to keep it closed), so once the week is up, he can take it off himself at home and move into a boot. He doesn't go back for 4 weeks (providing the boot we've borrowed from a friend fits, otherwise he'll have to go back next week to get a boot). The plan at this point is 1 more week in a cast (so, 3 weeks total in a cast, after the first week in the splint), 5 more weeks on the rollabout (to total 8 weeks), and then probably a walking boot for 4 weeks (and most likely, still no driving until he finishes out all 12 weeks of healing). We shall see though, it all depends what his next round of x-rays shows. So far, so good.
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